WAN Optimization
A customer’s Wide-Area-Network (WAN) is the foundation of their globally connected enterprise, enabling collaboration, communication, business productivity, and risk mitigation. The performance of their WAN is critical to everything customers do. With Riverbed WAN Optimization solutions, their business runs faster and more efficiently, delivering consistent service levels and cutting the costs of their IT infrastructure.
WAN Optimization can deliver massive improvements to a wide range of their top IT initiatives:
– Accelerate application performance up to 50X, increasing business productivity.
– Consolidate in the branch and datacenter, and see a 6-month payback.
– Optimize file sharing, web, email and even voice video – all at the same time.
– Leverage cloud economics without compromise.
– Protect data more completely, with less cost and effort.
– Solve problems up to 83% faster.
– Enhanced performance
– Realize dramatic performance improvements across the board range of applications enterprises care about most.
– Accelerate application performance, typically by 5-50 times and, in some cases, by up to 100 times. Get more out of the applications your business relies on every day, including file sharing, email, backup, SSL, document management systems, IT tools, SharePoint, SAP, and ERP and CRM solutions.
– Ensure fast, reliable access to data and applications for employees around the globe. Achieve LAN-like performance for mobile employees, no matter where they are. Drive faster performance to primary and secondary data center for DR processes.
– Meet the ongoing challenges of enterprise application performance. Enhance visibility into all key applications that cross the WAN. Quickly identify and resolve problems, eliminate pain points, validate that problems were resolved successfully, create global controls, and optimize applications for future business needs.
– Address application-and TCP-level protocol chattiness to eliminate inefficient behavior and drastically reduce redundant round trips.
– Optimize WAN bandwidth & reduce cost
– Reduce network traffic; relieve network congestion, and lower costs.
– Cut bandwidth utilization, typically by 60-95 percent, using data DE duplication across all TCP-based applications. Data is analyzed at the byte level, ensuring that the maximum amount of redundant data is eliminated before it crosses the network.
– Free up bandwidth for other applications, like VoIP or Citrix, so they can perform better.
– Minimize the need for expensive WAN upgrades – in an office served by a T1 (1.5 Mbps), you can deliver bandwidth equivalent of up to between 3-30 Mbps just by adding Steelhead appliances to your WAN link.