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How do your WAN optimization efforts measure up?

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How do your WAN optimization efforts measure up?

Ann Bednarz By Ann Bednarz
How does a thousand-fold improvement in application response time sound? Or an 87% improvement in bandwidth utilization? It may sound too good to be true, but one research firm says companies with the right policies and technologies in place are seeing gains like these. Read full story

Ann Bednarz is an associate news editor at Network World responsible for editing daily news content. She previously covered enterprise applications, e-commerce and telework trends for Network World. E-mail Ann.


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