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There are inherent limitations associated with Wide Area Networks that make it difficult to deliver business critical applications to remote and branch offices. Bandwidth is limited and costly to provide, latency occurs when communication is taking place over long geographic distances, and network congestion can lead to packet loss. The back-off mechanisms incorporated within TCP, coupled with the “chatty” behavior of common application protocols, such as CIFS and MAPI, further exacerbate the situation. The result is poor application response time in many enterprise WAN environments.
Addressing all Enterprise Applications
There are several ways that application performance can be improved across a WAN. Silver Peak is the only vendor to address the full gambit of problems outlined above for all enterprise traffic, including:
- Bulk TCP applications, such as email (MS Exchange®, IBM Lotus Notes®, SMTP) and file services (CIFS, FTP)
- Bulk UDP applications, such as NFS and TFTP
- Interactive and transactional applications, such as Telnet, Citrix®, Remote Desktop, and SQL
- Real-time and streaming media, including Voice over IP (VoIP) and video distribution.
Virtually all enterprise applications can benefit from Silver Peak's innovative approach to network acceleration. Click here for a complete listing.
Silver Peak Technology
Silver Peak leverages Local Instance Networking to deliver enterprise applications with LAN-like performance. This includes the following core technologies:
- Network Memory™ - Silver Peak's innovative approach to data reduction that leverages advanced pattern recognition and local information delivery
- Compression - Silver Peak uses state of the art cross-flow data compression and header compression to increase bandwidth utilization
- QoS - Silver Peak provides advanced queuing and scheduling, policy based decisions, and application tagging for QoS classification and enforcement
- Latency and loss mitigation - Silver peak uses protocol acceleration and adaptive Forward Error Correction (FEC) to mitigate latency and packet loss
- Performance
- Over 90% data reduction on the WAN, ensuring LAN-like response time for most enterprise applications
- Scalability - Hundreds of Mbps WAN throughput in a single appliance, supporting hundreds of thousands simultaneous TCP flows. SIlver Peak is ideal for large data center deployments and enterprises with hundreds of remote locations..
- Application breadth - Silver Peak's full set of optimization features can be applied to TCP, UDP, and time sensitive traffic making WAN acceleration more strategic to the entire enterprise.
- End-to-end Security
-Silver Peak offers line rate 128 bit encryption – at rest and across the WAN
- to protect business critical information at all times.
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