Chapter 4. Overcoming Application-Specific Barriers

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Understanding Application-Specific Acceleration

• Application-Specific Caching

• Web-Based Database Applications

• Read-Ahead

• Message Prediction

• Pipelining and Multiplexing

Accelerators are generally able to provide optimization at two distinct layers. The first layer of optimization is application-agnostic, otherwise referred to as WAN optimization, which consists of transport protocol optimization and compression (discussed in Chapter 6, “Overcoming Transport and Link Capacity Limitations”). WAN optimization is primarily employed to overcome conditions caused by or otherwise encountered in the WAN, including latency, bandwidth constraints, ...

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