Issues With Slow Applications: Ecessa’s Duplication Technique

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The vast majority of corporate users have had to deal with slow or poor performing applications. These programs allow employees to perform critical tasks in connection with their jobs, and therefore cannot be abandoned in favor of something else. However, slow applications can have much more of an impact on a company than many realize.

In fact, recent Aberdeen Research shows that 60 percent of organizations reported being unsatisfied with the performance of apps that were essential to their businesses, according to NetBrain. The study found that slow applications also had an impact on revenues, employee satisfaction, and the potential to damage the brand’s reputation. For this reason, it is more critical than ever to address issues connected with slow application performance.

Ecessa sales and engineering team leader Rick Berens noted that one of the top complaints administrators deal with today is slow application performance across the WAN. Some customers have even lost employees before implementing Ecessa solutions.

“Nothing takes you away from production, besides slowness, like not being able to get to the applications you need to get to,” Berens said.

More often than not, slow application performance comes as the result of too much traffic on a network without proper bandwidth resources. It is especially important to consider the amount of network bandwidth the organization needs when moving applications to a centralized datacenter or Private Cloud.

When a business does experience slow application performance, a duplication technique can be immensely helpful, especially with real-time apps like VoIP or virtual desktops. A duplication strategy enables specific types of traffic to be identified and the associated data packets duplicated. Both packets are then simultaneously sent over separate links across the WAN network, and the first to arrive is accepted with the other simply being discarded. Berens said this fundamentally eliminates the chances for packet loss.

“The odds of both paths having packet loss at the exact same moment is very, very small and you’re essentially using the best path (in regard to latency) for every single packet,” Berens explained.