- Use appropriate monitoring and analysis tools to understand what's happening on your network.
- Quality of service and packet shaping tools and features can prioritise the most important traffic.
- Out-of-band management can improve overall performance through greater uptime.
- Protocol acceleration may relieve the effects of high latency.
- Compression may relieve bandwidth constraints, but should be combined with traffic shaping.
- User involvement can be more effective in stopping undesirable practices than a punitive approach.
- Ensure backup, update and network management traffic does not impinge on "real" applications due to inappropriate configuration.
This article was first published in Technology & Business magazine.
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