Introduction to Dell SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Matt Dieckman/Scott Grebe Product Line Manager What Does WAN Acceleration Do? WAN Acceleration technology helps to… • Improve performance of business applications • Optimize response times for critical applications • Reduce bandwidth consumption • Reduce associated bandwidth costs …makes the network appear faster! 2 Confidential SonicWALL The Dell SonicWALL Approach Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization