Why do i need the WA module

WebAccelerator module can help accelerate static and dynamic web applications. Here is a short synopsis on what it can do to accelerate web sites:

 

 

Provides the traditional method to accelerate web applications

 

- Caching static content

 

- Dynamic caching helps caching of static content associated with dynamically generated pages

 

- SSL offload - maximum SSL license on Standalone WA or WA bundle

 

- Offload compression and cache previously compressed content to get zero latency encoding

 

- Helps reduce backend web server processing

 

 

Safely cache content at the browser with Intelligent Browser Referencing

 

- Subsequent browser requests get the majority of their content from their own cache without the risk of using outdated objects.

 

- Reduce bandwidth utilization over the network by eliminating the need to retrieve objects from the server

 

- Reduce effects of network latency by eliminating network round-trip

Dawn Parzych blogged on acceleration (summarized here: http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/dawn/archive/2008/12/23/acceleration-abcs---a-through-z.aspx Click here)

 

 

Also, there are a couple white papers on acceleration that discuss the benefits of asymmetric and symmetric acceleration:

 

 

http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/acceleration-101-wp.pdf Click here

 

http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/acceleration-102-wp.pdf Click here