The primary goal of Telelogic Synergy release 7.0 is improved performance for users accessing a Synergy database across a wide area network (WAN). This enables distributed team members around the world to work together on a central Synergy server without using data replication, thereby reducing complexity and administration costs. Although the performance improvements are most dramatic for users with a high latency (slow) network connection, most local area network (LAN) users also will enjoy significantly improved performance. To improve performance, Telelogic Synergy 7.0 introduces a new communication architecture called Web Mode. Synergy sessions can be started in either Traditional Mode, which is similar to 6.5, or Web Mode, which is much faster and suitable for WAN or remote users.