A misunderstanding of the problem within your network can lead to a costly and incorrect IT investment, not to mention online downtime, potential data loss and/or corruption, and human resource wastage.

Do you really want to spend cycles trying to improve your application packet delivery when the real issue may be that your data center sends all of the application information at once to every user, vs. prioritizing which employees need which pieces at which times to do their job effectively? See below five of the common WAN mis-perceptions and how to better address the issues.

Following are some commonly held myths about WAN Optimization.
1. Latency Issues Can Be Solved Simply Adding More Bandwidth
False: Soon after more pipes are added, more traffic will come through and the same bottlenecks will exist; and the money wasted. You need visibility into who is requesting access to which sites or applications and whether that user has or should have rights to this data (policy control); if not, the request should be denied and will not load the WAN. The better solution is to implement a tool – ProxySG – to help break down the data and better organize and prioritize mission critical data.