Network and Telecom Strategies Methodologies & Best Practices
Many application designers are unfamiliar with the implications of wide area network (WAN) performance characteristics and don’t take those characteristics into consideration when designing applications for the WAN. The network organization is then blamed when application performance is poor and diagnosis is difficult. This Methodologies and Best Practices document, updated by Senior Analyst Eric Siegel, can help the networking organization teach the application design organizations about WAN characteristics. It provides practical design guidelines for applications that will run over a WAN to ensure that there won’t be any unpleasant, and costly, surprises when those applications move into production.