WAN Optimization
Accelerate traffic while guaranteeing critical application performance
In long-haul networks and bandwidth-restricted locations, QoS and control may not be sufficient to fix all application performance problems. Ipanema WAN Optimization mitigates the impact of network delay for chatty applications like Common Internet File System (CIFS) and increases the available bandwidth, reducing data transfer time and satisfying application users everywhere.
Application acceleration brings response time down, improving the delivered Quality of Experience (QoE). Ipanema WAN Optimization includes a combination of techniques, including redundancy elimination (also referred to as compression, byte caching or deduplication), TCP acceleration and application acceleration (including specialized CIFS protocol optimization) mechanisms. All are dynamically applied under QoS and control features to ensure that the delivered additional performance always serves the most critical applications first, as defined by the global Application Performance Objectives (APOs).
Ipanema’s approach to WAN optimization is:
- Controlled: Ipanema's WAN optimization is tightly integrated with QoS and control. This prevents accelerated applications from creating congestion and protecting other applications like voice and tele-presence from being hurt by accelerated flows. In addition, the “virtual bandwidth” created by WAN optimization is allocated according to business priorities, maximizing its value for the enterprise.
- Transparent to the IT infrastructure: Ipanema's WAN Optimization does not require any change to the configuration of the IT infrastructure.
- Transparent to the network, maintaining full compatibility with network mechanisms in place (like MPLS classes of service, routing policies and advanced queuing mechanisms).
- Able to manage all applications: Ipanema's WAN Optimization covers the three key application performance bottlenecks (bandwidth, TCP and application protocol) and addresses all types of applications, including real-time, transactional and data transfer applications.
- A la carte/modular: Ipanema's WAN Optimization features need only be deployed where required (e.g. in a few remote offices), eliminating the need to install devices in branches close to the data center and that already benefit from broadband network access with short delays.