Optimizing Wide Area Network Performance

Advances in communications technology have allowed more critical business functions to be distributed across these remote sites, relying on wide area networks to ensure mission-critical applications are available. A key problem facing IT infrastructure managers is how to ensure end-to-end network performance and availability as their business increasingly relies on the wide area network (WAN). This white paper examines how Ethernet-based network management sytems such as Sniffer InfiniStream from Network General simplify the WAN management challenge by the enterprise taking a more active role in managing their WAN links.