What You Should Consider For A WAN Optimization Solution

The first step in is to find out the path your IP packets are taking. A delay can be caused if your connection is going through satellite and not a land line. All WAN-accelerators solve Latency issues. So choose any Vendor that does WAN-acceleration. But choosing the right one is not that easy. It depends on your WAN-traffic. If you use applications (like Citrix, SAP) then traffic prioritizing Accelerator will offer you the best results. However, if your traffic is more file oriented (MS-Office) then you will get the best results with the Data reduction Accelerators. Wan optimization solutions act like a transparent TCP proxy, spoofing server's IP address to the client, and spoofing client's IP address to the server.