What's the WAN Acceleration buzz about?

WAN Acceleration Overview

Given the importance of anytime, anywhere application access, IT departments are turning to WAN accelerators to improve application performance across the wide area network. By using acceleration technology, IT can provide LAN like access to data and applications anywhere throughout the enterprise network, allowing for real time collaboration for users in branch offices and mobile workers around the world.

Users complaining of slow applications?

Trying to consolidate your server & storage environment?

Need faster data replication from your Disaster Recovery site?

These are many of the challenges you face these days. Luckily, there is hope. We have successfully deployed Riverbed's Wide Area Network acceleration solutions in many different customer network environments.

Finally, there is a solution that really allows you to get control of the applications that are so critical to the business. Network acceleration technology is the answer!

WAN Acceleration Technology Overview Video

By addressing the three main problems plaguing Wide Area Networks (high latency, low bandwidth, and chatty protocols), WAN optimization appliances improve the throughput of applications that your users depend on every day: including file sharing, email, backup, document management, custom applications, databases, CAD, Notes, and FTP, as well as ERP and CRM solutions. Only Riverbed's WAN acceleration solution can address all of the critical applications in your Wide Area Networks.

Riverbed's WAN acceleration appliances typically improve transmission speeds by 5 to 50x and in some cases up to 100x!

These appliances are not focused on improving just one or two applications: so all of your WAN traffic is accelerated, but no application is disrupted. These products have been tested and proven in the world's largest wide area networks and are simple to install and manage.

Riverbed's Network acceleration appliances deliver superior performance from a WAN acceleration appliance so easy to install that even your office manager can do it.

Certified Wide Area Network acceleration engineers that are trained and understand Cisco networks and the Riverbed suite of Network acceleration solutions back your investment in Wide Area Network acceleration. Riverbed's Network acceleration products have had an unbelievable ROI for our customers.

The WAN Accelerator ROI

• Reduced CapX on IT Infrastructure
• Reduced or Deferred Bandwidth Expenditures
• Increased End User and IT Staff Productivity
• Enhanced Collaboration for Everyone
• Improved Data Backup and Replication
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• More Secure Data

WAN accelerator transparently optimize all WAN traffic using software known as RiOS (Riverbed Optimization System). RiOS WAN acceleration, intelligently integrates elements of storage, applications, and networks with the technology's four secret weapons:

Data Streamlining - WAN Acceleration Secret Weapon #1
Data streamlining optimizes all WAN traffic, including UDP and TCP applications, to sharply reduce bandwidth consumption of Wide Area Networks. It also includes advanced QoS mechanisms to prioritize packets and allocate bandwidth by application, taking into account both bandwidth requirements and latency sensitivity.

Transport Streamlining - WAN Acceleration Secret Weapon #2
Transport streamlining reduces the number of TCP packets typically by 65 to 98% and overcomes TCP limitations by adapting window scale, loss handling, congestion notification, and more. It also enables greater utilization of high bandwidth, high latency connections with high-speed TCP capabilities.

Application Streamlining - WAN Acceleration Secret Weapon #3
Application streamlining reduces application protocol chattiness, providing massive throughput increases to applications including Windows file sharing, Exchange, Web, MS-SQL, NFS and UNIX-based applications.

Management Streamlining - WAN Acceleration Secret Weapon #4
enables easy deployment through auto discovery of peers and auto interception of traffic, with no reconfigurations of clients, servers, or routers. For simpler ongoing management, RiOS provides powerful Web-based and command line interfaces for fine grained reporting on all traffic, appliance configuration, and a central management console to manage large-scale deployments easily.

The performance and simplicity of Riverbed's WAN acceleration appliances is changing the way business gets done. From day one, Riverbed's WAN acceleration appliances were designed to address the concerns expressed by IT, and Riverbed continuously relies on their global client base to innovate and improve upon their Network acceleration solutions.

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