Top 10 Considerations For Scaling A WAN Acceleration Solution

Security and compliance concerns are creating increased pressure to remove data out of branch offices and to implement robust business continuity plans. At the same time, new WAN acceleration technologies have emerged that deliver order of magnitude performance improvements across a wide breadth of applications. These two factors are creating a "perfect storm" in the IT industry, which is elevating WAN acceleration from a tactical fix to a strategic enabler of key business initiatives.

As WAN acceleration becomes more critical to business operations, the average size and scope of deployment is steadily increasing. This creates a variety of questions pertaining to product scalability. What happens when new applications are deployed? How easy and cost effective is it to add new offices? How is performance affected by network load? Do higher capacity WAN links behave the same as lower capacity links?

There are numerous factors that affect the scalability of a WAN acceleration solution, from hardware architecture to ease of use. This paper identifies the top 10, and provides guidelines for overcoming scalability challenges in real-world enterprise environments.