Question

What are some issues that can be attributed to Wide Area Network (WAN) and how do we overcome them?

Answer 1

The most common issues which are attributed to Wide Area Network (WAN) are:

i) Lack of sufficient bandwidth

ii) Reliability issues

iii) Network security issues

iv) Problems in specific applications

To overcome the problems associated with WAN, a right professional who has proper experience is the first choice. This will outright eliminate most of the existing problems. The connections of the network must be optimised enough to prevent duplicate actions occuring. Also by implementing caching and by reduction of bandwidth load by use of techniques like traffic shaping are useful. Commercial products which tend to speed and optimise WAN must be used.