</ WAN Optimization

Techniques />

By: Pratyush
Bhatnagar

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 </What is WAN optimization?

● WAN optimization is a collection of technologies and techniques used to improve the efficiency of
data transfer across a wide area network between organizations' centralized data centers,their
remote locations and their users.

● In an enterprise WAN, the goal of optimization is to improve user experience by increasing the
speed with which end users can access business-critical applications and information. The most
common measures of data transfer efficiency are increased throughput, reduced latency and
packet loss, and maximized limited bandwidth

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</Why is it Important?
Improving response time over WAN links

Optimizing traffic from data center

to data center for faster storage
replication.
Importance
Why are we even Improving enterprise investment in
talking about this? Bandwidth

moving traffic across hybrid WANs

that include public cloud
connectivity
</Popular Techniques for WAN
Optimizations
{1} Data Caching

{2} CDN

{3} Data compression

{4} Data deduplication

</Data caching
Data caching stores frequently used information on a local host or server for faster access in the
future. Because data doesn't have to travel from its point of origin to its destination over and over
again, caching lightens the burden on the network.

Data Center User 1

Server 1

Server 2

User 2
</CDN (Content Delivery Network)
A content delivery network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that caches content
close to end users. A CDN allows for the quick transfer of assets needed for loading Internet content,
including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, images, and videos.

{Web server} {CDN} {User}

Geographically
User that requested
Original Source of distributed group of
Web content that is
web content comes servers that serve
deployed on CDN.
from here and cache the content
that user request.
</Data compression
Data compression shrinks the size of data to minimize bandwidth use, similar to ZIP files, as it passes
through hardware or virtual WAN acceleration appliances

Decompressor
Compressor

Original Data Original Data

Compressed
data
</Data Deduplication
eliminates redundant copies of data
Data deduplication techniques ensure that only one unique instance of data is retained. Redundant
data blocks are replaced with a pointer to the unique data copy.

Data deduplication vs. compression

Another technique often associated with deduplication is compression. However, the two
techniques operate differently. Data dedupe seeks out redundant chunks of data while
compression uses an algorithm to reduce the number of bits needed to represent data

Example
A typical email system might contain 100 instances of the same 1 megabyte (MB) file attachment. If the
email platform is backed up or archived, all 100 instances are saved, requiring 100 MB of storage space.
With data deduplication, only one instance of the attachment is stored; each subsequent instance is
referenced back to the one saved copy
</Problems with these techniques
We have to check
Data Caching {01} if the cached file
is updated or not
everytime.

Might be
expensive, complex

CDN {02} for website

management and may
lose control over
website content

Data It can introduce

distortion or loss of
Compression
{03}
information and
increase complexity.
and Also it is necessary
to eliminate patterns
deduplication before encryption.
</SD WAN
Software-Defined Wide Area Network
</SD WAN Planes

{1} Data Plane

{2} Control Plane

</Thank You