Find Your WAN's Accelerator

Application proliferation can degrade WAN performance. Here's how to get it back.

The broadband WAN revolution has enabled application centralization to such a degree that heavy data transmission loads are now stressing many relatively new WANs. But more bandwidth comes at a price. That's why many retailers are focusing on smarter bandwidth usage before pulling the trigger on buying more of it. In this month's forum, cell phone and service retailer Cellular South's Data Network Supervisor Davey Ware shares some intelligence on how network optimization helps retailers' application performance. His commentary is joined by that of Keith Vozel, director of marketing at network solutions provider Stampede Technologies, and Rob Courtney, VP of sales there.