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Application Optimization

Boost Application Performance in Your SD-WAN

Application Optimization

Overview

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With a world on the go, the need for instant file sharing, and the sheer number of applications used, bandwidth is a problem for most enterprises. High bandwidth usage and connectivity issues can lead to a significantly degraded user experience.

Open Systems Application Optimization helps to address this problem by reducing bandwidth consumption – applying caching and compression algorithms and accelerating slow applications by protocol optimization.

Components of the Open Systems Application Optimization

Caching

Minimizes unnecessary data transfers by storing data locally and is effective for repetitive user actions. The cache works for uploads and downloads, and across protocols.

Compression

Reduces redundancy in real time. Compressed data is transferred by using a lossless compression protocol for data size reduction.

Protocol Optimization

Improves efficiency of “chatty” applications and reduces message costs by losslessly encoding lengthy header information, and using adaptive congestion control algorithms.

The Cherry On Top of the SD-WAN Cake

Open Systems SD-WAN can be seen as a cake with a number of different layers:

Connectivity to integrate fast, reliable lines
Path Selection to use all available bandwidth in an optimal way
Bandwidth Control to prioritize and protect your business-critical apps

Application Optimization is that last layer, the cherry on top, helping you to reduce bandwidth usage and accelerate your applications.

A green outline of a cupcake is used to illustrate four elements of network management: Application Optimization, Bandwidth Control, Path Selection, and Connectivity. Line labels point from each term to corresponding layers of the cupcake image.

How Does Application Optimization Work?

Our SD-WAN is purpose-built to simplify network and security operations to help IT teams increase business agility, optimize resources, and improve customer experiences and employee productivity.

Caching

Identify suitable blocks for caching
Efficiently hash and distribute caching blocks
Ensure data integrity and synchronization of cache data
Locate cached blocks and replace them by small block references
Identify caching blocks across protocols
Apply caching for uploads and downloads

Compression

Identify blocks for compression
Compress data block without loss by reducing statistical redundancy (lossless)
Send smaller block over network
Decompress data block: restore the original data block

Protocol Optimization

Identify protocols for optimization
Apply protocol optimization actions:
1. Write ahead/read behind for CIFS
2. Encode lengthy header information for HTTP traffic without loss
3. Adapt congestion control windowing for TCP traffic
4. If required: customized protocol optimization

Identify suitable blocks for caching
Efficiently hash and distribute caching blocks
Ensure data integrity and synchronization of cache data
Locate cached blocks and replace them by small block references
Identify caching blocks across protocols
Apply caching for uploads and downloads

A diagram illustrating three data optimization techniques: Caching (storing frequently accessed data locally), Compression (reducing file size for faster transfer), and Protocol Optimization (improving data transfer protocols for efficiency).

Identify blocks for compression
Compress data block without loss by reducing statistical redundancy (lossless)
Send smaller block over network
Decompress data block: restore the original data block

A diagram illustrating three methods of data optimization: Caching (left), showing users accessing a local cache; Compression (center), displaying a large file reduced in size between two devices; Protocol Optimization (right), representing improved communication protocols.

Identify protocols for optimization
Apply protocol optimization actions:
1. Write ahead/read behind for CIFS
2. Encode lengthy header information for HTTP traffic without loss
3. Adapt congestion control windowing for TCP traffic
4. If required: customized protocol optimization

Why Choose Open Systems Application Optimization?

Application Knowledge

We can build the application knowledge gained from a company's SD-WAN deployment. This allows specific, focused and efficient application optimization for the cases where it is really needed.

Complete Activation

The entire state-of-the-art application optimization feature set can be enabled – caching, compression, protocol optimization – without changing the WAN architecture or installing new hardware.

Customization

With our in-house expertise and through our strategic partnership with the application optimization technology providers, custom requests have a high chance of being fulfilled – either by us or directly by the supplier.