WebAccelerator - web cache

Hi Jeff,

 

 

WebAccelerator has some advantages over LTM + RAMCache in that WebAccelerator does more than just caching, it also applies many application and protocol specific optimizations that provide additional performance benefits. WebAccelerator can also accelerate SSL encrypted pages, something that LTM + RAMCache cannot do. LTM + RAMCache requires less configuration, of course, but WebAccelerator's configuration time can be significantly reduced if you're trying to accelerate an application for which there exists a WebAccelerator validated application profile (Siebel, Sharepoint, Exchange, Oracle, etc...).

 

 

Another advantage of WebAccelerator is that if you are interested solely in improving performance of web apps or portals via the corporate intranet then you can take advantage of WebAccelerator's ability to be deployed in a symmetric fashion. This is similar to a WAN acceleration approach - using one WebAccelerator in the data center and one at each remote location. This deployment option specifically improves the performance of web apps and portals over the WAN for remote users.

 

 

HTH,

 

Lori