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WAN Optimisation

WAN Optimisation is a key challenge for some companies, who want to allow employees to access corporate services from anywhere on the network. A typical example would be a firm with several branch offices, which hosts most of its application servers at headquarters.

The Evolution of the Network

With most businesses sourcing customers from almost every part of the world, and the trend for the workforce to increasingly locate away from the main corporate office, we are fortunate to have networks to keep it all connected. In fact, the network is the critical piece enabling your remote customers to do business with you and enabling your remote associates to work as one united company. These Wide Area Network (WAN) connections enable the global business, and the flexibility of network connections means that we can optimally locate our resources in the most strategic locations.

Compression and QoS

When it comes to optimizing the WAN, there are two obstacles to overcome. The first is the WAN link's limited bandwidth. Today compression technology focuses on performance, using low latency, lossless techniques that work on all applications and consistently deliver average bandwidth increases between 100% and 400%, with peaks over 1,000%. The second obstacle is aligning the network to the business at the LAN-WAN bottleneck.

Expand Networks QoS is easy to set up and immediately ensures that the applications running the business are running unimpeded on the WAN. It is not just prioritization, but includes sophistication to combat congestion, mark packets for downstream QoS handling (i.e., MPLS), and rate control shaping to make sure flows get the bandwidth they need. With both compression and QoS, Expand's WAN Optimization will turn an expensive and low-bandwidth WAN into a strategic asset that will perform better, deliver more, and ensure business priorities are met.

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10 Reasons to take a closer look at Expand

Since pioneering in the Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimisation market in 1998, Expand Networks has grown to become the leading provider of Application Acceleration solutions over the WAN.

Comprehensive: Many companies sell individual point solutions to support WAN optimisation, application acceleration and Wide Area File Services (WAFS) etc. Expand delivers it all through a single multi-service platform – The Expand Compass.

Application-centric: Expand designed its solutions to be application-centric. IT teams can establish bandwidth parameters for a specific application, at specific sites, at a specific time of day and get a global view of all bandwidth on all circuits on a per-application basis.

Proven, Measurable Impact: Expand solutions consistently deliver bandwidth increases of 100% and 400% (with peaks over 1,000%)

Application Plug-ins: Acceleration plug-ins specifically improve the performance of SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Citrix and other key applications todays enter

Performance for VoIP: Expand addressed the performance issues of VoIP with specific technologies.

Transparent Operations: Expands Compass solution optimises traffic transparently, simplifying integration into your networking infrastructure while also preserving investments in other systems.

Single Point of Control: The Expand Compass delivers management and visibility across the network from a single point of control.

All IP in Real Time: Many WAN Optimisation solutions narrowly focus on only a portion of TCP-based traffic. Expand optimises non-TCP traffic (UDP etc.) as well as difficult interactive applications such as Citrix and Terminal Services in real time.

Microsoft Compliance: The Expand solution is part of the Microsoft Domain so it can strictly maintain all user and document security and controls with optimising performance. It is fully compliant with Microsofts SMB-signing protocol guaranteeing communication authenticity.

Security: Expand delivers multiple levels of security with compression customised to specific traffic and an encryption protocol for traffic exchange.

 

 

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