Open Systems’ Application Optimization service is designed to improve the performance of traffic within your network. There are several methods to optimize your traffic: their goal is to either reduce the application bandwidth consumption or improve performance if your lines have high latency or suffer from packet loss.

1. Compression: Compress data which should be transferred by using a lossless compression protocol and achieve up to 50% reduction in data volumes for many common uncompressed data types.
2. Caching: Caching identifies content that is suitable for caching and reduces bandwidth with block-level deduplication. Benefit from a cache that works across protocols, for uploads and downloads.
3. TCP Optimization: Profit from TCP optimization which uses an adaptive congestion control algorithm.
4. Protocol Optimization: Apply protocol-specific optimization, as for example for HTTP, where message costs can be reduced by encoding lengthy header information.