ABSTRACT
The expansion of local area networks (LANs), both in terms of the number of network users supported as well as in the number and type of applications they use, typically results in a considerable increase in the use of network bandwidth. This, in turn, can result in the occurrence of a variety of problems. Those problems can range from sluggish network performance being experienced by workstation users that marginally affects their productivity to the occurrence of session timeouts that terminate network-related work in progress, forcing users to redo previously performed operations or precluding users from performing certain types of network related activity.
