Application Optimization – Protocol Optimization
The Application Optimization engine is able to identify a number of protocols and apply protocol-specific optimization. For example, the efficiency of the “chatty” CIFS file sharing protocol is greatly improved by the engine’s read-ahead and write-behind optimizations.
For HTTP, Application Optimization reduces the cost of messages through lossless encoding of lengthy header information. This protocol optimization is accomplished in a variety of specific ways but even without protocol-specific optimization, the engine still delivers world-class WAN optimization for other traffic types.
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Hi, I’m Thomas. Welcome to the lightboard session about application optimization. For applications based on HTTP or CIFS, it is possible to apply protocol-specific optimization.
HTTP requests usually come with large headers that tend to be very similar across different requests. To address this, we replace the large headers with smaller representations. The CIFS protocol, on the other hand, is known for being very chatty. We accelerate this application by reducing the back-and-forth communication using techniques like read-ahead and write-behind.
In this way, we can optimize traffic by either reducing the required bandwidth for HTTP traffic or minimizing the effects of latency for the CIFS protocol.
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