Will It Work in the WAN? (by Terry McNicholas)

Author Profile - Terry McNicholas is the President of iTrinegy Inc. (formerly Itheon Networks). Terry joined iTrinegy in 2006, established and built their North America operations, based out of Reno, NV. He is responsible for the iTrinegy Sales, Support, Services and Product Development activities in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions. Prior to iTrinegy, Terry served as VP of Operations and VP of Professional Services with Eagle Creek Software Services, the leading CRM Implementation Services organization in the USA, where he was responsible for more than 200 CRM implementation engagements and the day-to-day management of over 150 consultants. Before Eagle Creek, he was with Majesco Inc, serving as VP of Services and Chief Operating Officer, where he established Majesco as one of the major CRM Implementation Services and Offshore Outsourcing Service providers in the USA, leading a team of more than 300 consultants in onsite and offshore consulting engagements.
Introduction
With a trend towards server consolidation, increased remote working and greater reliance on wireless technology, more applications are expected to work over Wide Area Networks (WANs), Wireless LANs, GPRS, 3G or Satellite networks.
The problem is that a lot of software performance testing is still frequently only conducted over the fast & reliable Local Area Networks (LAN) of the test lab. Satisfactory application performance in these conditions is no guarantee of acceptable performance in non-LAN networks.
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