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The Importance Of Correcting Packet Loss In VDI: Page 4 of 4

Ultimately, the raison d'etre of corporate applications isn't that they look great, which they might, or even that they offer the most bells and whistles, which they often don't. No, it's that to the extent possible, enterprise applications work--every day, any day. They're dependable, even under adverse conditions. Whether an application runs on TCP or UDP really matters not one wit to the CEO looking to place a call or run a video conference. She or he only cares whether the service will perform and perform well.

All of this means that WAN optimizers are more than simply throttles sitting at the edge of WAN capacity. They are mechanisms by which network engineers ensure--to the extent that it's possible--that IP applications can live up to that appellation of "enterprise-grade." It follows then that buyers of those WAN optimizers should pay close attention to how those devices correct for the underlying network problems, such as packet loss and jitter, across all of their applications.