by JoelChristnerCCIENo.15311 (Author), TedGreversJr. (Author)
IT organizations face pressure to increase productivity, improve application performance, support global collaboration, improve data protection, and minimize costs. In today's WAN-centered environments, traditional LAN-oriented infrastructure approaches are insufficient to meet these goals. Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals introduces a better solution: integrating today's new generation of accelerator solutions to efficiently and effectively scale networks beyond traditional capabilities while improving performance and minimizing costs through consolidation.
Ted Grevers and Joel Christner begin by reviewing the challenges network professionals face in delivering applications to globally distributed workforces. You learn how accelerators are transforming application business models, enabling IT departments to centralize and consolidate resources while also delivering consistently superior performance.
Grevers and Christner show how to identify network consumers, prioritize traffic, and guarantee appropriate throughput and response times to business-critical applications. You learn how to use quality of service techniques such as packet classification and marking and traffic policing, queuing, scheduling, and shaping.
Next, you compare options for integrating accelerators and optimization services into your network and for optimizing content delivery. The authors show how to address application protocol-related performance problems that cannot be resolved through compression or flow optimization alone. In the final chapter, the authors walk you through several real-world scenarios for utilizing accelerator technology.
Ted Grevers, Jr., is the solution manager for the Cisco (R) Video IPTV Systems Test and Architecture (C-VISTA) team. He has extensive experience in the content delivery network (CDN) market, focusing on enterprise and service provider content delivery and application optimization needs.
Joel Christner, CCIE (R) No. 15311, is the manager of technical marketing for the Cisco Application Delivery Business Unit (ADBU). He has extensive experience with application protocols, acceleration technologies, LAN/WAN infrastructure, and storage networking. Grevers and Christner are key contributors to the design and architecture of Cisco application delivery and application acceleration solutions.
This book is part of the Cisco Press (R) Fundamentals Series. Books in this series introduce networking professionals to new networking technologies, covering network topologies, sample deployment concepts, protocols, and management techniques.
Category: Cisco Press/Networking
Covers: Network Optimization
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cisco Press
Published: 06 Jul 2007
ISBN 10: 1587053160
ISBN 13: 9781587053160
Book Overview: IT organizations face a number of increasing pressures to increase productivity, improve application performance, provide infrastructure conducive to global collaboration, improve data protection, and minimize costs across the board. While workforces continue to become more global, the characteristics of wide area networks (WANs) are dramatically different than those of local area networks (LANs). Simply consolidating infrastructure provides better support for global collaboration, cost reduction, and better posture towards data protection and compliance, but does so at the cost of performance and productivity. Adding servers to the infrastructure potentially can improve performance but does so at the cost of capital and operational expenditure, data protection, and complexity. Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals gives you a powerful set of technologies found within accelerator solutions that help bridge the divide that IT faces- one where infrastructure should be intelligently deployed in centrally-managed facilities, while also providing performance metrics for remote users that fosters productivity, job satisfaction, and global collaboration. Accelerator solutions enable high performance access to remote information- files, content, video, rich media, applications, and more, and such solutions can help I/T satisfy requirements from users, management, and regulatory bodies simultaneously.
Ted Grevers, Jr.
, is the solution manager of the Cisco Managed Media Solution (C-MMS) for the
Cisco Video/IPTV Systems Test and Architecture (C-VISTA) team, focused on Cisco service
provider customers. The C-MMS offering provides live streaming media and on-demand content
delivery to cable high-speed data subscribers, adding QoS to DOCSIS service flows, ensuring
an enhanced quality of experience. Ted joined Cisco via the SightPath acquisition in early 2000
as a systems engineer. The SightPath acquisition became the foundation for the Cisco Content
Networking product offering with the Content Engine (CE) and ultimately the Wide Area
Application Engine (WAE). Shortly after the acquisition, Ted transitioned to the Content
Networking Business Unit in 2001 as a technical marketing engineer and then became manager
of technical marketing in 2002. Currently attending Framingham State College, Ted is completing
his undergraduate degree. Milford, MA, is home to Ted, his wife, and three children.
Joel E. Christner, CCIE No. 15311, is the manager of technical marketing within the Application
Delivery Business Unit (ADBU) at Cisco. Joel and his team are responsible for the technical
marketing aspects associated with the Cisco Application Networking Services (ANS) advanced
technology products including Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) and Application
and Content Networking Services (ACNS). These responsibilities include creating white papers,
presentations, training, competitive analysis, and collateral; enabling sales; and driving product
requirements and strategic direction with the product management team. Before joining the
ADBU, Joel was a member of the storage networking advanced technology team within Cisco.
Joel is a graduate student at Columbia University working toward a master's degree in computer
science. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electronics engineering technology. Joel lives
with his wife in San Jose, CA.