This page is aimed at providing a high level description of the types of
scenarios that would benefit from an Opteq solution predominantly around wan optimization.

Questions about your network

• Do you have application performance issues? (Is your traffic slow?)
• Are you considering WAN acceleration?
• Are you using VoIP, or are you planning to use it?
• Do you need more visibility into your network traffic?
• Are you moving any of your core applications to a web-based delivery?
• Are you concerned about lost employee productivity?
• Are you concerned about the inability to manage the costs of your ISP bill?
• Do you deliver IT services and applications to remote offices?
• Are P2P (peer-to-peer) downloads and media streaming an issue for your company?
• Do you have an application that is performing badly over the WAN?
• Do you currently have file and print servers in branch offices?
• Are you looking at upgrading your WAN bandwidth in the near future?
• Are you having trouble controlling rogue applications?

Questions about applications

• Would you like to know exactly which applications travel your network over WAN or Internet links?
• Do you have particular applications that are critical to the business, and do they share the WAN with
  less critical traffic?
• Do you have particular applications that monopolize network resources and undermine the
  performance of other applications?
• Are you planning to deploy?
• IT consolidation
• Disaster recover sites
• Mobile workforce’s that need LAN like user experience
• Voice-over-IP? Or Video?
• Web-based applications?
• ERP applications such as SAP or Oracle?
• Citrix-based applications?
• Communication and collaboration applications such MS Exchange or Lotus Notes?
• Host-based applications via TN3270 or TN5250?
• Do users complain about critical applications or file transfers and backups being too slow?

Questions concerning IT infrastructure

• Are you considering upgrading your WAN bandwidth? Would you like to see if you can avoid an
  upgrade? Or, would you like to make sure your increased capacity goes to the applications that you
  want?
• Would you like to have your IT investments align more closely with business needs and priorities?
• Would like to know how deploying a new application will affect the network (ahead of time)?
• Do you lack quantifiable data to justify spending money to address end-user complaints?
• Are you using or planning on using satellite or wireless infrastructure?
• Is your high-speed link underutilized because of latency issues or small window sizes in the operating
  system?

Questions related to technology

• Are you thinking about MPLS? (Extended MPLS has many advantages for an MPLS network)
• Do employees depend on VPN for productivity during remote access?
• Do you juggle multiple VLANs with a single WAN or Internet link?
• Are you considering compression or acceleration technologies?

Questions regarding security

• Are worms, viruses, and other security issues disrupting your business or application performance?
• Would you like to eliminate spam, malware and viruses from both email and web browsing for all your
  users?
• Would you like to shield users from un-trustworthy websites and restrict access to undesirable sites?
• Are you looking to consolidate multiple tasks....the Opteq can do fire-walling, vpn’s, vlan termination,
  web caching, url content filtering, mail scanning etc...Either individually or all on one box.

Questions for those in ISPs

• Would you like to control p2p and other abusive content?
• Would you like full layer 7 visibility and usage reporting on each and every customer?
• Would you like to maximize the number of users achievable on the same speed link whilst still having
  better performance? (2-3 times increase in the number of users on any given link without degradation)
• Would you like to impose Fair user policies with abusers automatically kicked down into lower speed
  profiles?
• Would you like to increase revenue per user by offering differentiated services?
• Would you like to save money by not having to rely on a large in-house development team in favor of
  world class optimization and control equipment?
• Would you like to consolidate and have integrated policy enforcement, layer 7 visibility, per user usage
  tracking which fully integrates with any billing system?

Questions for those in education

• Are your eachers, librarians, and staff complaining about poor performance of administrative, academic, or database applications?
• Are classes being disrupted by instant messaging?
• Is one school in the district hogging capacity?
• Do KaZaA and other peer-to-peer applications impact your network performance?
• Do some dormitory students or some dormitories get an unfair share of bandwidth?
• Do you want to disallow all pornography and other abusive content from your schools?

Questions for those in health care and other government sectors

• Does your network support the transfer of large image files such as MRIs and CT scans?
• Do the emergency staff and mobile physicians receive prompt performance for their truly critical
  applications?
• Is performance of critical applications guaranteed 27/7?
• Do you need to have encrypted secure communication across the WAN?