Bandwidth-intensive Wide Area Network applications are playing an increasingly important role in enterprise productivity. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Web front-end support for legacy systems and corporate Intranets have become key business processes within the distributed enterprise WAN. Stratacache Optima appliances enable faster deployment of new applications by supercharging Wide Area Network performance. By using our patented Enterprise Caching Technology (ECT) along with high-performance compression algorithms, the Stratacache Optima provides an immediate 100-400% increase in WAN circuit performance (measured in network capacity, throughput and application delivery speed to remote site end-users).