Nearly 73% of organizations deploy WAN optimization already, and nearly half of them have completed their deployments –for now. The spread of unified communications is one of the forces that will drive replacements of existing WAN optimizers (if they are found to be inadequate to the new enterprise workload), the layering-on of additional optimizations (whether in-house or through a service provider), or the expansion of existing installations to more branches. It may also drive the integration of optimization technologies into UC hardware and software. IT will need to look carefully at the array of options available to them – separate, integrated, managed service – when they decide how to proceed with UC deployments.
