When you buy a broadband Wide Area Network (WAN) you want to put the entire bandwidth capacity to work for you. But technical and physical constraints often stack the cards against you to prevent efficient use of bandwidth for large data transfers. To determine how effectively you use WAN capacity for large data transfers you need to understand how much available capacity you actually put to work. The higher your effective throughput, the more efficiently you use your WAN capacity.

This NetForecast report describes challenges preventing efficient bandwidth usage, and it identifies technical solutions that mitigate those challenges.