Google Networking Best Practices for Large Deployments - Manual (Page 5)

5
Chapter 3
Introduction
Chapter 3
About This Guide
This document discusses best practices for optimizing your large-scale IP network for Google
Apps for Business, Apps for Government, and Apps for Education.
The recommendations and information in this guide have been gathered through our work with
a variety of customers and partners in many network environments. We thank our customers
and partners for sharing their insight and experience.
Target Audience
This document is intended for Google Apps customers with complex networks, especially
those that are spread across a large geographical area. Administrators with smaller networks
or networks in a single location may find that some of this information is useful and may find
answers to specific questions, but some of the major network routing, capacity, and testing
issues might not apply.
Benefits
Optimizing your network configuration will help you to improve your Google Apps
implementation in the following ways.
• Improve the responsiveness of Google Apps by reducing latency in your IPv4 network.
• Reduce bandwidth consumption by optimizing network routing and network services.
• Predict network performance and capacity needs by collecting baseline metrics for
latency, packet loss, and network availability, before your Google Apps implementation
begins.
• Reduce upload and download times with Google Apps for large files, such as internal
videos and attachments.
• Efficiently migrate data from existing legacy servers into Google Apps.