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title: "WAN Acceleration"
description: "WAN acceleration allows you to optimize VM traffic going over the WAN during remote jobs. To use this technology, you need to configure a pair of WAN accelerators that will work at source side and at target side."
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# WAN Acceleration

WAN acceleration allows you to optimize VM traffic going over the WAN during remote jobs. To use this technology, you need to configure a pair of WAN accelerators that will work at source side and at target side.

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WAN acceleration requires Enterprise Plus, Veeam Universal License product edition.

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## In This Section

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  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:15%;">
      <p>Cmdlet</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:30%;">
      <p>Operation</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="add-vbrwanaccelerator.md" class="T_Filenames">Add-VBRWANAccelerator</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>Creates a WAN accelerator</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="get-vbrwanaccelerator.md" class="T_Filenames">Get-VBRWANAccelerator</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>Looks for existing WAN accelerators</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="remove-vbrwanaccelerator.md" class="T_Filenames">Remove-VBRWANAccelerator</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>Removes a WAN accelerator</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="clear-vbrwancache.md" class="T_Filenames">Clear-VBRWANCache</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>Removes data from WAN accelerator global cache</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>