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The Real-Time Branch
Contents
Executive Summary ................................................................................2
Contents .................................................................................................3
The changing face of the branch ............................................................4
The evolution of branch IT .....................................................................4
The challenge for today ..........................................................................7
Transformation to the real-time branch ...................................................7
Overcoming the barriers .........................................................................9
De ning the thin branch today .............................................................9
Solutions for thin branches ................................................................11
Application performance: LAN-like performance over the WAN ................11
Security and compliance: combining performance with intelligence ........11
Data centre: supporting the thin branch .............................................13
The future of branch networking ..........................................................15
The vendor of choice ..........................................................................15
