10 ways to improve network performance


Contents
Introduction
Quality of service and packet shaping
Protocol acceleration
Mistimed traffic
Keep junk traffic off the network
Has your network kept up with any changes?
Case study
Executive summary

Executive summary
  • 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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