Driving Revenue and Increasing Value with Application Performance Management
Real time, content, peer-to-peer and mobile traffic already are straining today's networks. Meanwhile, emerging service delivery models, such as network-based managed services and cloud-based computing, are putting new pressures on carrier networks. The resulting changes in traffic characteristics are making the competing goals of ensuring throughput and security all the more difficult. This e-book, sponsored by Blue Coat, explores such challenges and looks at how the enormous revenue opportunity as a result of exploding bandwidth requirements and managed services adoption requires a creative response to network performance management.
Table of Contents
Evolution of the Corporate WAN
The corporate WAN is undergoing a transformation - both technological and architectural - that ultimately meets the demands of an increasingly global, mobile and application-centric environment.
Moving Up the Value Chain
Selling bandwidth is nothing but a race to the bottom. That's the unvarnished and reluctantly acknowledged truth for network service providers. Instead, they need to add value by getting closer to their customers' businesses with a managed services play.
Accelerating the Application-Centric Network
Network service providers are in an ideal position to help customers optimize their increasingly application-centric networks; they are, after all, the suppliers of corporate WAN connectivity. In general, WAN optimization speeds critical applications running on the corporate network. There are several techniques employed to do this. Among them are compression, caching, traffic management and content control/security.
Stop the Bad, Step Up the Good
No one would argue that network security isn't the No. 1 priority for corporate CIOs. A 2007 IDC survey of WAN managers found 80 percent of CIOs rated it their top concern. The question is, how does it impact application acceleration - CIOs' No. 2 priority in the IDC survey?
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