As enterprises and e-businesses deploy the new era of HTTP, SSL, AJAX and XML applications, these new applications place new and unprecedented demands on datacenter network infrastructures. Oftentimes, network providers dedicate additional bandwidth to handle new applications and network loads, yet end users invariably perceive that performance has suffered. Networks are flooded with more traffic and asynchronous connections, application servers are overwhelmed, network activity spirals and connections are dropped. Network latency, or the amount of time it actually takes for data to travel through the network, becomes one of the biggest issues affecting performance. But how does mitigating latency actually improve application performance? And how do you make sure your network is truly equipped to deal with new enterprise applications? iDirect Technologies has the answers.  The new WEB Optimizer is the first enterprise solution specifically designed to accelerate and secure the new breed of network-intrusive applications.