| Ted Grevers and Joel Christner begin by reviewing the challenges network professionals face in delivering applications to globally distributed workforces. You learn how accelerators are transforming application business models, enabling IT departments to centralize & consolidate resources while also delivering consistently superior performance. They
show how to identify network consumers, prioritize traffic, and guarantee appropriate throughput & response times to business-critical applications. You learn how to use quality of service techniques such as packet classification and marking & traffic policing, queuing, scheduling, and shaping.
Next, you compare options for integrating accelerators & optimization services into your network and for optimizing content delivery. The authors show how to address application protocol-related performance problems that cannot be resolved through compression or flow optimization alone. In the final chapter, the authors walk you through several real-world scenarios for utilizing accelerator technology.
- Provide high-performance access to remote data, content, video, rich media, and applications;
- Understand how accelerators can improve network performance & minimize bandwidth consumption;
- Use NetFlow to baseline application requirements & network utilization;
- Ensure network resources are allocated based on business priorities;
- Identify performance barriers arising from networks, protocols, operating systems, hardware, file systems, and applications;
- Employ application-specific acceleration components to mitigate the negative impact of latency & bandwidth consumption; & more. | |
