A company has just established a new branch office that needs to connect back to centrally
hosted applications for day to day operations. The branch office has noted that access to many
company services are slow and causing a drop in productivity. The company IT department has
investigated a plan to improve performance across the link to the branch office without having to
pay for more bandwidth from the Internet Service Provider. This plan includes hardware that after
installation will allow for much faster access to day to day business applications. Which of the
following terms BEST describes the action taken by the IT department?
A.
LAN optimization
B.
WAN optimization
C.
Load balancing
D.
Bandwidth compression
Explanation: