Branch Consolidation and WAN Optimization
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Information in this chapter:
• What Is the WAN Performance Challenge?
• WAN Optimization Benefits
• Requirements for WAN Optimization Deployment
• Remote Office Virtualization Designs
• Summary
Introduction
Having considered the virtualization and integration of services in the services aggregation-layer in Chapter 3, let us take a step back and consider the purpose of the data center. The data center not only provides a set of interesting local networking and virtualization problems, but serves as an engine to the rest of the enterprise. The driver for a private cloud is to provide applications for the employees of the business. For the cloud to be most effective, ...
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