Further Info
Windows File Sharing (CIFS) is the protocol used by enterprises for maintaining content on shared Windows Servers.
It is the underlying protocol used when a user double clicks on a remote network drive to view or edit a file and when "dragging and dropping" a file between a local machine and a network drive.
Further Reading
CIFS
CIFS is a very efficient method of transferring data on a LAN when latency is not an issue, the protocol’s chattiness becomes a crippling issue when employed on a WAN where the RTT (network round trip time) may be of the order of 100ms or more.
Replify’s Reptor combines its CIFS chat reduction optimization with compression and XDR™ functionality to provide much more efficient use of the available bandwidth and massive reduction in the amount of data being transferred.
CIFS Results
These results are based on dragging and dropping a file from the server to a directory on the client.