 |
Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals
Read an excerpt:
Chapter 6: Overcoming Transport and Link Capacity Limitations
Excerpt provided courtesy of by Cisco Press. Copyright © Pearson Education, Cisco Press. Written permission from the publisher is required for any use of this material.
|
Be the First to Write a Review and tell the world about this title!People who purchase this book frequently purchase: - Network Management: Accounting and Performance Strategies; Benoit Claise, et al, $54.50, 22% Off!
- End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth; Omar Santos, $42.95, 22% Off!
- Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook; David Hucaby, $50.50, 22% Off!
- Network Warrior; Gary A. Donahue, $26.95, 40% Off!
Books on similar topics, in best-seller order:Books from the same publisher, in best-seller order:
IT organizations face pressure to increase productivity,
improve application performance, support global collaboration, improve data
protection, and minimize costs. In today's WAN-centered environments,
traditional LAN-oriented infrastructure approaches are insufficient to meet
these goals. Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals
introduces a better solution: integrating today's new generation of accelerator
solutions to efficiently and effectively scale networks beyond traditional
capabilities while improving performance and minimizing costs through consolidation.
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 and consolidate
resources while also delivering consistently superior performance.
Grevers and Christner show how to identify network
consumers, prioritize traffic, and guarantee appropriate throughput and
response times to business-critical applications. You learn how to use quality
of service techniques such as packet classification and marking and traffic
policing, queuing, scheduling, and shaping.
Next, you compare options for integrating accelerators
and 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 and minimize
bandwidth consumption
- Use NetFlow to baseline application requirements and 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 and bandwidth consumption
- Integrate content delivery networks (CDN) to centrally manage the acquisition,
security, and distribution of content to remote locations
- Leverage WAN optimization technologies to improve application throughput,
mitigate the impact of latency and loss, and minimize bandwidth consumption
- Optimize the performance of WANs and business-critical WAN applications
This book is part of the Cisco Press Fundamentals Series. Books in this series
introduce networking professionals to new networking technologies, covering
network topologies, sample deployment concepts, protocols, and management techniques.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Managing Application
Chapter 2
Barriers to Application Performance 21
Chapter 3
Aligning Network Resources with Business Priority 83
Chapter 4 Overcoming
Application-Specific Barriers 127
Chapter 5
Content Delivery Networks 163
Chapter 6
Overcoming Transport and Link Capacity Limitations 237
Chapter 7
Examining Accelerator Technology Scenarios 291
Appendix A Common Ports
and Assigned Applications 323
Appendix B Ten Places for More Information 347
About the Authors
Ted Grevers, Jr., is the solution manager for the Cisco Video IPTV Systems
Test and Architecture (C-VISTA) team. He has extensive experience in the content
delivery network (CDN) market, focusing on enterprise and service provider content
delivery and application optimization needs.
Joel Christner, CCIE No. 15311, is the manager of technical marketing for
the Cisco Application Delivery Business Unit (ADBU). He has extensive experience
with application protocols, acceleration technologies, LAN/WAN infrastructure,
and storage networking. Grevers and Christner are key contributors to the design
and architecture of Cisco application delivery and application acceleration
solutions.
|
|
