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Cisco IOS Data Compression

Overview Local-area networks (LANs) are connected to each other and to corporate backbone networks via wide-area network (WAN) links. This paper describes data compression solutions. It begins with a technical explanation of how data compression works, and then examines five data compression solutions. It goes on to identify network characteristics to consider when implementing data compression in the internetwork, and concludes with a summary of data compression solutions.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	17
Format	White Papers
Topics	Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN), Data Compression

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