Your network has never been more critical to business success than it is today, with employees, customers and partners relying on it to communicate easily and transfer large quantities of data seamlessly. Unfortunately, communication isn't always easy and data transfer is anything but seamless on today's typical WAN -- because applications run slowly on the WAN, making it difficult for IT organizations to provide the service levels required by a growing population of remote and mobile users. This severely restricts business continuity and disaster recovery options, makes it difficult to maintain mission-critical applications and limits the effectiveness of consolidation and unified communications initiatives.

In this paper you'll read about techniques that can help you:

• Reduce costs for infrastructure and operations
• Mitigate the effects of high-latency links
• Increase effective throughput
• Deliver leading-edge application acceleration to mobile workers
• Dramatically improve the outcome of IT consolidation and unified communications initiatives
• Speed up backup procedures associated with disaster recovery efforts

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