For Businesses that need a WAN or VPN there are two ongoing, challenges:
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- To reduce the costs
WANs and VPNs are expensive and the costs are recurring, so finding ways to reduce the costs is a business benefit.
- To improve the performance of applications over the WAN or VPN
Technologies that improve performance over the WAN without having to increase bandwidth are also highly beneficial to a business as they help to improve user productivity and reduce user frustration (which is not uncommon for users on a WAN).
In practice, technologies that provide improved performance of applications and data transfer over a WAN often result in reduced WAN costs as well - see WAN and VPN Solutions for more on these issues.
Kadec's Solutions for Improving WAN performance
Kadec provides a number of solutions that can improve the performance of IT systems for users on WAN, VPN and Internet connections. These solutions include:
Packet Shaping involves reserving bandwidth for selected types of traffic and then prioritizing traffic on the links so that more critical (typically real-time) traffic flows with minimum delay.
The result is users get better, more consistent performance for their critical applications.
WAN Optimization is a relatively recent technology. It performs several functions to achieve its objective, which is to substantially speed up data transfers over WAN links. WAN optimization delivers effective increases in data transport speeds of 50% to 400% in some circumstances
Another approach that can significantly improve system performance for users on the WAN, or over the Internet is Thin Client Computing.
Thin Client Computing achieves this by dramatically decreasing the amount of traffic travelling on the WAN, which increases the responsiveness of the applications for the users.
Thin Client Computing has the added advantage that it enables all data to be centralized, greatly simplifying the task of securing and protecting the data and making all data available to those who need it.
Thin Client computing was originally conceived (over 10 years ago) as the solution to 'delivering' Windows applications and data to remote users over low bandwidth links. It has developed to be the only real solution to this requirement and there are currently over 100 million users world-wide that use Thin Client Computing for all their Windows computing requirements.
See Thin Client Computing for more details.
