Overheard in the tech blogosphere » WAN optimization http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard A Whatis.com blog Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Overheard – WAN accelerator http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-wan-accelerator/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-wan-accelerator/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:01:13 +0000 Margaret Rouse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/?p=3121 It might take one or two hundred round trips to do a transaction. If that’s over a LAN and you have a delay or one or two milliseconds, nobody notices. Take that application and run it over a WAN … you get a delay of 10 to 20 seconds. That’s not acceptable.

Jim Metzler, Collaborate with programmers to deliver WAN application acceleration

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is WAN accelerator.

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