L-1 visas allow U.S. companies to transfer executives, managers and personnel with specialized knowledge from their overseas operations into the United States to work.

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Server optimization features such as SSL termination and compression technologies use specialized hardware to offload compute-intensive operations from the servers to the application delivery controllers.

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Transfer risk by outsourcing internal operations to highly qualified and specialized third parties with a vested and monetary interest in getting it right the first time.

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Specialized equipment must be designed, built and tested, compressing operations that normally last weeks or months into days or even hours.

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