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Driving Revenue and Increasing Value with Application
Performance Management
Sponsored
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Real time, content, peer-to-peer and mobile traffic
already are straining today?s networks. Meanwhile, emerging
service delivery models, such as network-based managed
services and cloud-based computing, are putting new
pressures on carrier networks. The resulting changes in
traffic characteristics are making the competing goals of
ensuring throughput and security all the more difficult.
This e-book, sponsored by Blue Coat, explores such
challenges and looks at how the enormous revenue opportunity
as a result of exploding bandwidth requirements and managed
services adoption requires a creative response to network
performance management.
Table of Contents
Evolution of the Corporate WAN
The corporate WAN is undergoing a transformation ? both
technological and architectural ? that ultimately meets the
demands of an increasingly global, mobile and
application-centric environment.
Moving Up the Value Chain
Selling bandwidth is nothing but a race to the bottom.
That?s the unvarnished and reluctantly acknowledged truth
for network service providers. Instead, they need to add
value by getting closer to their customers? businesses with
a managed services play.
Accelerating the Application-Centric Network
Network service providers are in an ideal position to
help customers optimize their increasingly
application-centric networks; they are, after all, the
suppliers of corporate WAN connectivity. In general, WAN
optimization speeds critical applications running on the
corporate network. There are several techniques employed to
do this. Among them are compression, caching, traffic
management and content control/security.
Stop the Bad, Step Up the Good
No one would argue that network security isn?t the No. 1
priority for corporate CIOs. A 2007 IDC survey of WAN
managers found 80 percent of CIOs rated it their top
concern. The question is, how does it impact application
acceleration ? CIOs? No. 2 priority in the IDC survey?
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