Profiles

FortiProxy WAN optimization consists of a number of techniques that you can apply to improve the efficiency of communication across your WAN. These techniques include the following:

• Protocol optimization—Protocol optimization can improve the efficiency of traffic that uses the CIFS, FTP, HTTP, or MAPI protocol, as well as general TCP traffic.

• Byte caching—Byte caching caches files and other data on FortiProxy units to reduce the amount of data transmitted across the WAN.

• Web caching—Web caching stores web pages on FortiProxy units to reduce latency and delays between the WAN and web servers.

• SSL offloading—SSL offloading offloads SSL decryption and encryption from web servers onto FortiProxy SSL acceleration hardware.

• Secure tunneling—Secure tunneling secures traffic as it crosses the WAN.

You can apply different combinations of these WAN optimization techniques to a single traffic stream depending on the traffic type. For example, you can apply byte caching and secure tunneling to any TCP traffic. For HTTP and HTTPS traffic, you can also apply protocol optimization and web caching.

You can view the list of WAN optimization profiles by going to WAN Optimization > Profiles and selecting the List icon (the farthest right of the three icons in the upper right of the window; it resembles a page with some lines on it) in the Edit WAN Optimization Profile page toolbar.

Hover over the leftmost edge of the column heading to display the Configure Table icon, which you can use to select the columns to display or to reset all the columns to their default settings. You can also drag column headings to change their order.

The following options are available:

Create New	Create a WAN optimization profile. See Create or edit a WAN optimization profile.
Edit	Modify the profile. See Create or edit a WAN optimization profile.
Delete	Remove the profile.
Name	The name of the WAN optimization profile.
Ports	The ports used by the profile.
Transparent	Whether the WAN optimization transparent mode is enabled. For more information about the WAN optimization transparent mode, see WAN optimization transparent mode.
Authentication Group	The authentication group used by the profile, if any. See Authentication Groups.
Comments	Optional description of the WAN optimization profile.