PDF of this tutorialEnterprise networks are increasingly clogged by ever-expanding amounts of traffic from the Web, business to business (B2B), exchange, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), thin clients, etc. Corporations cannot afford significant network overhauls, but neither can they afford eroding application response times.
This document describes how Enterprise Caching technology addresses two major concerns of today's network administrator:
Improving network performance to support the implementation of new applications while supporting current ones
Improving network optimization to cut costs and protect network-infrastructure investments
To meet these challenges, Enterprise Caching extends the power of caching beyond Web traffic to diverse traffic found on enterprise and service-provider networks. Through the deployment of Enterprise Caching, performance of enterprise and service provider networks can be boosted by 100–400%, often more, while protecting existing network infrastructure investments. This in turn fuels the efficiency and success of day-to-day business.
Improving Network Performance
More than ever, potential customers are demanding increased performance when doing business over the public Internet and corporate enterprise networks. Optimized network performance is becoming increasingly important in securing and retaining customers and satisfying corporate users.
—Tim Smith, Principal Analyst, Wide-Area Networking at Dataquest, a San Jose–based market analysis firm
