e.g.: - Dynamic window sizing - Selective acks - compressing the data using common sequence reduction - caching TCP sequences on the receiving end - transparent TCP session termination/proxy allows packet reordering at the far end. - Application Optimization Over the WAN. e.g. for a chatty protocol one could proxy for the far end, and the far end could proxy for the source end. (I can explain in a followup). - Offloading Remote Authentication for Servers
Basically the whole point of all these technics is two fold: 1) Reduce traffic over the WAN, while at the same time allowing more complete utilization of existing pipes. 2) Make remote apps appear as if they were local. -- This messages posted from opensolaris.org
