*Provide high-performance access to remote data, content, video, rich media, and applications
*Understand how accelerators can improve network performance and minimize bandwidth consumption
*Use NetFlow to baseline application requirements and network utilization
*Ensure network resources are allocated based on business priorities
*Identify performance barriers arising from networks, protocols, operating systems, hardware, file systems, and applications
*Employ application-specific acceleration components to mitigate the negative impact of latency and bandwidth consumption
*Integrate content delivery networks (CDN) to centrally manage the acquisition, security, and distribution of content to remote locations
*Leverage WAN optimization technologies to improve application throughput, mitigate the impact of latency and loss, and minimize bandwidth consumption
*Optimize the performance of WANs and business-critical WAN applications