Optimizing bandwidth has always been central to controlling the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of an enterprise Wide Area Network (WAN). Even with the industry's steady improvements in bandwidth price/performance, IT managers have constantly been pressured to get “more out of what you've got.”

Now, as the enterprise begins to exploit the efficiency of IP across converging voice, data, and video applications, the mandate is growing. Voice over IP (VoIP) and IP video need specific performance guarantees. Business applications, like ERP and Citrix, must meet strict response time standards. Each of these applications must perform, while Web and Internet traffic aggressively compete for bandwidth. As a result, the enterprise IP WAN bar is moving from basic bandwidth optimization to one that assures IP application performance – on a per session and/or per user basis.

The Converged Traffic Manager™ (CTM) is the industry's first application-aware performance management solution to enable the toll-quality VoIP, jitter-free IP video, and business-IP response times that are crucial to enabling the lower cost and higher value of IP convergence.

The CTM integrates best-of-breed traffic monitoring, traffic management, compression and caching with advanced application layer visibility and control to assure WAN efficiency and application performance for converging IP voice, data and video applications. It is easily deployed as a seamless overlay to an existing IP network.