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John_Ogle_45372
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Jan 21, 2014

AAM - MultiConnect and common objects

In the AAM concepts manual, it states the following: "The Enable MultiConnect To check box on the Assembly screen of the BIG-IP applies MultiConnect functionality to image or script objects that matc...
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IheartF5_45022
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Jan 21, 2014

So you've read what Multi-connect does? It increases the number of domains in use by a page in a browser, which in turn increases the number of concurrent TCP connections from the browser to the server, potentially increasing the speed at which your page downloads.

 

If you have a reasonable expectation that your users will be on high bandwidth connections, and your application developers don't have the knowledge or inclination to add a CDN content-domain to the application, I would say enable it (in general - there are some exceptions). We use it on most of our sites on which we use WAM (the AAM precursor) - increasing the number of domains is a recognised acceleration technique.

 

Note that you will need to configure the number of sub-domains to use in another section (not sure where in AAM - I'm going to configure my first AAM next week) and also ensure that those domains resolve in DNS.