Definition:

Application Delivery Networking

A comprehensive IT strategy for the safe and efficient distribution of business-critical applications across a company’s network. Utilized to provide improved availability and security of information and applications accessible over a network in an effort to increase overall business performance.

Many organizations today require a means of closing the performance gap between their business applications and processes and the IT infrastructure and network that supports them. In order to meet these requirements and assure that applications are readily accessible, efficient and secure, businesses should look to application delivery networking. This solution provides real-time monitoring and analysis of network activities to identify connection failures, traffic bottlenecks and processing capacity issues. Services such as Layer 4-7 application optimization can help prevent performance issues by accelerating application response time, eliminating downtime and managing bottlenecks directly from the data center. Along with these internal system performance factors, applications delivery networking also provides protection against potential security threats that may interrupt or halt network operations. Both preventative and real-time protection measures are implemented to secure a system both locally and globally. Companies can provide end-to-end optimization of SSL-based and web-based, as well as other types of IP applications, by achieving an effective delivery network for business information and applications.