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Optimised WAN services from Vodafone – the intelligent approach to Networks

How much is too much when it comes to network bandwidth? The cost of Wide area networks continues to fall, however, is that any reason to simply buy as much as you can afford? If the LAN is swamped with traffic from badly behaving users or applications, what chance does your WAN stand, regardless of how big the pipes are?Vodafone has connected tens of thousands of users on wide area networks and in doing so has always sought to provide the best possible experience to them. We do this, not by selling the biggest networks, but by utilising Unified Performance Management from Exinda, in conjunction with the most appropriate connection technology, whether that be fibre or copper based.Vodafone will demonstrate a three phased approach to ensuring the best possible experience for the network users. It starts with Visibility of the traffic on the network at an application level. This ensures that decisions on access capacity are made in the full knowledge of the ability of the network to handle the peaks of traffic and also helps to troubleshoot network events that cause users to cry “the network has crashed” when more often than not it is a failure elsewhere in the infrastructure.The second element is Control, where the administrator of this expensive resource can use the information they now have to prioritise traffic to an application or user level. There is no artificial restriction to this capability as is often the case with network level Class of Service differentiation. Your network is your own to manage, ensuring that those peaks of traffic that previously brought the service to a halt, or severely degraded response times, are now contained within strict boundaries, giving your network a much longer shelf life.The final element, and the one that most are familiar with, is Acceleration. Vodafone believes that this is possibly the least successfully installed element of network performance enhancement. The reason for this is that there is a common misconception that this is a panacea for all network ills and hence many stories of this being deployed with little positive impact. The fact is that only certain applications will benefit from the deployment of an acceleration capability. Vodafone works with its clients to examine the application portfolio and assess the potential benefit of this optional module.Vodafone believes that by deploying WAN Optimsation organisations will finally understand what is happening on their WAN and have the ability to control it for the benefit of all of their users. Join us at the seminar to find out more.

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