This thesis is trying to appraise benefits of implementation Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) in the organization. It's a relatively new technology, which seeks to answer the question, how to maintain control over the ever-increasing volume of traffic. This constant increase is mainly due to the use of new applications and business processes. WAAS should transparently improve throughput, speed and ease of use of all applications in the organization. The question is if this technology can reduce costs, improve productivity, simplify data protection, or what manner it is compatible with the corporate infrastructure. If is really consolidating and pooling application infrastructure for remote branch back into the data center best current solution, which facilitates access to remote users, in same way to which they are accustomed from the Local Area Network (LAN). The next one sections of this work will be summarized findings on the principle of Cisco WAAS. How the technology works. What is main optimizing method and how is currently use in the organization. It's weaknesses and strengths against the largest suppliers of similar WAN optimization solutions. The next one section will carry out an analysis, which showed us results to determine which applications are suitable for optimization technology and statements for the policy, which will be applied to the applications. This raises so many questions to be answered. The outcome of this work will be whether this technology is really what the organization needs, and whether this technology is applicable to all or only for certain types of applications or application protocols.

Detta examensarbete handlar om hur datatrafik över en satellitlänk kan optimeras för att minska laddningstider och överförd datamängd. Syftet med studien är att undersöka i vilken omfattning datatrafik mellan fartyg och land via satellitlänk kan styras så att trafiken blir effektivare. Genom att använda DNS-mellanlagring, mellanlagring av webbsidor samt annonsblockering med pfSense som plattform har examensarbetet utfört experiment emot olika hemsidor och mätt laddningstid samt överförd datamängd. Resultatet visade att det fanns stora möjligheter att optimera nätverkstrafiken och de uppmätta resultaten visade på en minskning av datamängden med 94% och laddningstiderna med 67%. / The thesis describes how network traffic transmitted via a satellite link can be optimized in order to reduce loading times and transmitted data. The purpose with this study has been to determine what methods are available to control and reduce the amount of data transmitted through a network and how this data is affected. By applying the practice of DNS caching, web caching and ad blocking with the use of pfSense as a platform the study has performed experiments targeting different web sites and measured the loading times and amount of transmitted data. The results showed good possibilities to optimize the network traffic and the measured values indicated a reduction of the network traffic of up to 94% and loading times with 67%.

Verksamheten ombord på fartyg blir mer beroende av datakommunikation och många av arbetsuppgifterna ombord underlättas genom att besättningen kan nå information lagrad på annan plats. Fartygens bredbandsanslutning sker till största delen via satellitkommunikation där långa avstånd och begränsad datahastighet resulterar i att datakommunikationen blir ineffektiv. I denna studie undersöks vilken prestandaförbättring som utrustning för nätverksoptimering kan innebära för långsamma WAN-förbindelser via satellit. Undersökningen visade att det största problemet med anslutningar via satellit är den signalfördröjning som uppkommer vid långa sändningsavstånd. Detta medför att det blir prestandaproblem för datatrafiken och användare upplever anslutningen som långsam. För att åtgärda detta finns utrustning som hanterar datatrafiken och genom olika tekniker kan öka prestandan på anslutningen. För att undersöka hur stor prestandaförbättringen kan vara genomfördes ett antal olika experiment med utrustning för nätverksoptimering. Experimenten genomfördes genom att utvärdera filöverföringar med och utan nätverksoptimering. Resultaten visar att utrustningen för nätverksoptimering ger en stor prestandaförbättring vid filöverföringar. / Shipboard operations have become more reliant of data communication and many of the duties on board may be facilitated if the crew can access information stored elsewhere. The broadband connection between ship and shore is mostly done via satellite communication where long distances and limited data rate results in inefficient data communication. This study examines network optimization and the performance improvement this can have regarding slow WAN connections via satellite. The survey showed that the biggest issue with data communication via satellite is the signal delay caused by the long transmission distance which means that there will be performance degradation for data traffic and users will experience the data communication as slow. To solve this there is equipment that enhances the performance of the connection and handles the data communication by implementing various techniques. To investigate how much the performance improvement can be this study carried out a number of experiments with network optimization equipment.  The experiments evaluated file transfer with and without network optimization. The results show that the network optimization gives a major performance improvement regarding file transfer.