“Tunnel Vision” is a medical condition involving a loss of one’s
peripheral vision, but most also know the term as a description
of a certain mentality: the tendency to focus on a narrow or
limited point of view or perspective. Most, if not all,
organizations have many applications going over WANs. They may
even have hundreds of very important applications running over
public and shared networks to support their customers,
subscribers, partners, and employees. Yet many organizations
fall short when it comes to making sure their networks are able
to keep ALL of their applications running fast and reliably —
instead of seeing the ‘big picture’, these organizations seek to
accelerate their application delivery by using networking
solutions that only support a handful of applications. The fact
is, many of today’s applications are the cause of network
underperformance. Application delivery can become corrupted
because of lost and out-of-order packets. These same
applications can also add undue congestion and laten