Mobile computing, branch offices, IP Telephony and Videoconferencing among other applications, are stressing the security and performance of business WANs. To squeeze the most benefit from these costly connections, businesses must carefully choose WAN optimization products not only on a cost basis but also on potential security, manageability and flexibility benefits.

IT professionals rely on the accuracy of their monitoring and management tools to ensure applications and networks operate effectively. Unfortunately, by design, WAN optimization devices apply optimization techniques on application packets that affect network and application monitoring and reporting tools resulting in significant problems including:

• Loss of visibility into response time, server response time, data transfer time and protocol distribution metrics
• Inability to accurately quantify the benefits of WAN optimization
• Difficulty in troubleshooting and identifying the true bottlenecks throughout an enterprise network
• Inability to leverage the existing investment in network and application performance monitoring systems (link to challenges with measuring WAN performance page)

Flexnet can help you to overcome the performance monitoring limitations created by WAN Optimization solutions, and calculate accurate TCP application response times in a network environment.

Flexnet can:

• Accurately quantify end-to-end response time, WAN bandwidth utilization and protocol distribution, and LAN/WAN data throughput before and after an optimisation implementation
• Enable rapid isolation of network and server bottlenecks in a WAN optimized environment
• Ensure confident investment decision making with accurate end-to-end visibility
• Protect and leverage existing investments made in network and application performance monitoring tools while deploying WAN Optimisation

Please contact us to speak to a WAN Optimisation specialist today.