Enterprises, large and small, are experiencing rapid growth in IP voice, data and video applications. With this growth comes the mandate to contain rising wide area network (WAN) bandwidth costs. This challenge is particularly acute for businesses with many remote sites – each dependent on WAN access for even the most basic business communications.
WAN compression is a critical tool in managing WAN efficiency and cost for these businesses. The economics are compelling. Depending upon the mix of applications, the enterprise can expect an average 2-3X bandwidth expansion. In some cases, bandwidth can expand by up to 10 times.
The Converged Compression Appliance (CCA) is an application-aware compression and caching solution that delivers this efficiency while meeting the application performance, simplicity, and low TCO needs of small, medium and large business enterprises.
Designed to apply compression where it can bring the greatest efficiency, this selective compression appliance allows Web traffic to be cached while large email file transfers are compressed. At the same time, latency and response time sensitive Voice over IP (VoIP) and Citrix-based applications - where compression has already been applied – can be excluded to best assure their performance.
The result is immediate, measurable savings. Profitability improves as WAN operating costs are reduced. The enterprise can delay investments in more bandwidth as existing applications grow or as new applications are added to the network. The bandwidth expansion provided by the CCA can also dramatically improve application performance – improving productivity and customer responsiveness as business applications run more quickly over existing WAN resources. In some cases, the expanded bandwidth can simply make applications like VoIP work the way the need to work.
The CCA family of products scale from 512 Kbps to100 Mbps, providing a solution that is easily deployed at remote branch as well as headquarters locations. |
