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 Chapter 1, "Strategic Information Technology Initiatives," introduces the challenges faced by IT organizations and business at large, setting the tone for the relevance and importance of WAN optimization and application acceleration solutions.Chapter 2, "Barriers to Application Performance," builds upon the first chapter and examines what are the fundamental barriers to application performance in WAN environments and the need for a holistic solution to application performance. Chapter 3, "Aligning Network Resources with Business Priority," discusses how the network is the platform that touches all aspects of an organization and why it serves as the foundation for an infrastructure conducive to application performance. Chapter 4, "Overcoming Application-Specific Barriers," discusses how accelerators can work within the context of specific application protocols to improve user performance and efficiency over the WAN while minimizing bandwidth consumption. These topics, along with those presented in Chapter 5, are commonly viewed together as application acceleration. Chapter 5, "Content Delivery Networks," examines how accelerators can be leveraged to ensure that the right information is available in the right location at the right time through intelligent acquisition and distribution of information among accelerators throughout the network. Chapter 6, "Overcoming Transport and Link Capacity Limitations," examines application-agnostic techniques for improving application performance and efficiency over the WAN through integration at the transport layer. These topics include compression, data suppression, and transport protocol optimization and are commonly referred to as WAN optimization. Chapter 7, "Examining Accelerator Technology Scenarios," shows four scenarios of how WAN optimization and application acceleration solutions have provided benefit to four customer environments. Appendix A, "Common Ports and Assigned Applications," serves as a quick reference guide for ports that are commonly used in today's diverse network environment. Appendix B, "Ten Places for More Information," provides links to external locations on the Internet to help you further your knowledge on the topics discussed in this work. Download free ebooks of cisco:Cisco Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals
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