You Can’t Manage – and Shouldn’t Optimize – What You Can’t See: Optimization and Visibility

Massive transformations in the enterprise and in IT are pushing steadily more application delivery optimization to the WAN. IT can use optimization technologies to mitigate problems on the WAN arising from latency, loss, and jitter. However, for good long-term planning and effectiveness, use of optimization should follow—not precede—IT gaining a deeper understanding of the true state of WAN use through development of deep application-level visibility on the network.