@rtw915 said in WAN optimization/acceleration:

Now the SQL team needs me to find a way to improve SQL linked server transfer rates to synchronize transactions.

This will bring you back to the initial wan accelerator solution.
The only other possible solution is to redesing the db subsystem, utilizing some way of sql replication, taking into consideration propagation delays

No, you cannot use it with ALTQ.

You could use limiters, however.