WAN Optimization White Paper

Last year, independent IT research firm IDC released a report called "WAN Application Delivery: Networking Solutions for a Tough Economy." In it, IDC calls WAN application delivery a critical networking technology because it can cut branch office costs and improve service by providing LAN-like communications across the WAN. In fact, IDC believes WAN application delivery to be so strategic for cutting costs, achieving data center consolidation, and centralizing applications, that the research firm expects the worldwide WAN application delivery market to reach $1.6 billion by 2012.