WAN Accelerators - What's the buzz about?

Overview

Most IT Managers, IT Directors and CIOs have heard all the buzz about Network Accelerators for Wide Area Networks and how they change the IT landscape. With so many vendors jumping into the WAN acceleration market it can be hard to understand what separates one solution from another. Below you will learn about Network accelerators and what makes up a comprehensive WAN accelerator solution.

Given the need for anytime, anywhere access to critical applications, IT departments are turning to network acceleration technology to speed up application performance across their wide area networks. Using these accelerators, the IT department can deliver LAN like performance to data and applications anywhere throughout the corporate network.

WAN Acceleration Technology Overview Video

Riverbed's WAN optimizers provide the first comprehensive solution to a host of problems that plague critical apps that are accessed at the branch office across the WAN. This includes:

• Poor application performance at the branch office
• Expensive or congested WAN circuits going out to remote offices
• Challenges with consolidating server and storage infrastructure
• Inability to complete network backups and replication in a timely manner
• Increasing need to address mobile workers

Unlike point products that improve one part of the performance problems of Wide Area Networks - like data compression, QoS, or TCP optimization - Riverbed's WAN optimization appliances are a comprehensive solution to application performance problems.

Riverbed's WAN accelerator/optimizer encompasses several different product categories. Whether a business is seeking to make the most of its existing investment in wide area network bandwidth by reducing traffic, or aims to accelerate the performance of its critical applications by addressing latency and chatty protocols, the best WAN accelerator solution addresses all aspects of the problem at once.

Riverbed's Wide Area Network accelerator is the superset of several existing categories::

• Application Acceleration
• WAN Optimization
• Wide Area File Services (WAFS)
• QoS and Traffic Shaping
• Web Caching

Unlike these individual approaches that only address a single cause of poor application performance across the wide area network, a complete WAN accelerator solution enables the benefits of all of these approaches within a single architecture.

Using Riverbed's WAN optimizers, businesses can improve application performance across the WAN typically by 5 to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, and can simultaneously reduce WAN bandwidth utilization by 65 to 95%. These dramatic results allow businesses to take advantage of their WANs, IT infrastructure, and critical applications in ways that they had never imagined were possible.

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