subject: Web Application Acceleration- A Must For A Successful Enterprise [print this page] In todays hyper-connected world, Web Application Acceleration has become a critical requirement for many global enterprises and businesses. Web accelerators are the tools which help enterprises applications attain speed, security and resilience. Reducing the impact of latency and the inefficiencies of bandwidth-hungry protocols, these web accelerators play a significant role in improving application response time for the end users. These accelerators are proxy servers which reduce the website access time to a great extent. They can be either independent hardware devices or installable software. They can also be a global network of distributed Points of Presence (POPs) between the main data center and the end user. These accelerators ensure a great and swift experience for the end users.
To ensure quick application response time, one needs to resort to expedient web application acceleration methods that deliver applications and content from the Cloud or a server to end users located around the world. These solutions use different optimization techniques to accelerate the response time and speed end users communications. This enables the website content to appear nearly instantaneously, giving a LAN like performance over the WAN.
The most commonly used method for web acceleration is redundancy removal. This technology reduces the traffic which travels on the low bandwidth wide area network links. The redundancy removal technique eliminates duplicate copies of repeating data traversing the network. The amount of transferred data reduces the time taken to transmit the data between enterprise locations. This compression technique highly compliments data redundancy as the left over data is then compressed with the help of effective algorithms.
TCP optimization helps to expedite the applications and improves the overall protocol performance. Almost all data and applications experience a performance gains from TCP optimization. The optimization includes fast connection setup, throughput ramp, loss recovery, windows scaling and jitter protection.
Several service providers also provide standard quality of service (QoS) across the network which prioritizes traffic according to the enterprise need giving a definite grade of performance to the high priority applications.
