Fast Access your Remote Files over Slow Network

Fast Access your Remote Files over Slow Network  ?

Accessing files in Remote office and branch office is always slow due to network Latency. Lots of WAN- Optimization solution are available in the market for this purpose like Bluecoat cache flow & Cisco WAAS Services.

Today i am going to show you How easily you can enable WAN-optimization in Windows based OS.

1. Enable Transparent Caching

Enabling this policy optimizes subsequent reads to network files by a user or an application. This is done by caching reads to remote files over a slow network in the Offline Files cache. Subsequent reads to the same file are then satisfied from the client after verifying the integrity of the cached copy.

This policy not only yields improved end-user response times but also decreased bandwidth consumption over the WAN links to the server.

Expand  Local computer Policy >Computer Configuration >  Administrative templets > network > Offline Files > Select the Transparent Caching option.

2. Enable Branch Cache

BranchCache reduces the utilization of the wide area network (WAN) links connecting branch offices to the data center or headquarters and increases access speeds for content that has already been downloaded into the branch office.

BranchCache does this by enabling computers in a branch office to cache files and HTTP traffic from Intranet servers on which BranchCache is enabled, and then securely share the files with other computers in the branch. Computers in the branch office can retrieve content from a hosted cache server in the branch (when using Hosted Cache mode), or from other client computers in the branch (when using Distributed Cache mode).

To access cached content, the computer must have permissions to access the content on the source server.

Expand  Local computer Policy >Computer Configuration >  Administrative templets > Network > Branch Cache