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WAN Optimization
What is it?
WAN optimization gives complete control over network to speed up the performance. It can help
improve performance of critical application, which will increase user productivity.
WAN optimization is method of capitalize on network performance by classifying, prioritizing,
accelerating business applications and adding layered approach to secure information and
protect users from the threats.
Advantage of WAN Optimization
Boost up Productivity: Prioritizing and accelerating critical application will speed up access of
information to end users, which will intern in high productivity.
Cost effective: It saves cost by controlling bandwidth utilization of network.
WAN Optimization
Provides differentiated bandwidth based on the Web Category under which the URL is
categorized.
For granular control, it is also possible to limit bandwidth per user per category. For example, you
can not only allow access to Blogs category but limit the bandwidth used.
Cyberoam provides 82+ default web categories as well as allows to create custom categories if
needed. Apart from web categories, bandwidth control can be implemented even on the file type
categories.
Implementation:
Schedule access
Configure firewall rule for the identified Users and attach web filter policy and Web Category
based QoS policy.
Set Priority
Schedule access
Configure firewall rule and attach application filter policy and Application Category based QoS
policy.
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Business applications can also have non-critical aspects - Email, File transfers
Frivolous applications can also have a business aspect Chatting & Audio-visual
presentations
In view of the above scenario, controlling only the Application access will not be sufficient; you
need to control individual Users access to the Internet i.e. you need to place bandwidth limits as
well as deny access based on content type.
E.g., you want to allow marketing group to view high bandwidth streaming media, but allow the
Accounting group to view up to only 64k OR block MP3 files for everyone except Webmaster OR
block MP3 files from being downloaded.
Uncontrolled traffic consumes bandwidth in many different ways. To implement effective bandwidth
management, one must first understand the behavior and bandwidth impact associated with
Organizations common traffic types and how applying controls can affect performance.
Identify User
Allocate/reserve bandwidth
If employees are waiting to download Excel or Visio files while the Webmaster tests his/her
development Web content, frustration will be felt by all due to the slow-down in performance.
Isolating the Webmaster from the rest of the staff can help better bandwidth utilization. Because
the control is placed on per-user basis, whenever the user requirement changes, only the Users
policy needs to be changed. This also ensures consistent control on the Users access i.e. the
access control is applied irrespective of the time and place from where user logs in.
WAN Optimization