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Application and communications delivery over the WAN requires three main feature sets:

  • Visibility: Real-time monitoring, supervision, long-term reporting

  • Control: Bandwidth management, QoS, traffic shaping, traffic blocking

  • Acceleration: End-to-end protocol optimization, compression, caching  

 

  

 

The best strategy is to start with Visibility to enable better IT Service Management and to provide advanced root cause analysis. Visibility will especially help to understand the root cause of application or VoIP and video performance issues and which methods should be used to solve the problem.
 
To improve performance of any real-time multimedia traffic (e.g., VoIP, video), then the only solution is Control, because Acceleration techniques cannot be applied to real-time traffic.
 
If application performance varies over time, then the best solution is Control. Performance variations are typically related to network congestion and volume of traffic competing for limited bandwidth. Especially, control solutions optimize performance for all interactive tasks of an application (e.g., desktop virtualization, Web 2.0)
 
If application performance is continually bad, then the best solution is Acceleration. Continual bad performance is usually related to very high network latency (e.g. international networks, satellite) or a shortage of bandwidth for data-intensive traffic (e.g. file server consolidation, database backup). 
 
Streamcore provides best-of-breed solutions to address the need for both visibility and dynamic performance control, especially for interactive applications and real-time communications. Streamcore’s products are complementary to acceleration solutions and can help to identify if  acceleration is needed and in what locations.