Catching up on WAN optimization news

Network Optimization This newsletter is sponsored by Blue Coat Get the latest on Web Acceleration Tools Discover how to significantly improve document delivery times for users that are physically away from your centralized data center. A document that takes 80 minutes to delivery to a user across the globe could be delivered in three minutes with Web acceleration. Learn how your IT organization can benefit from this technology. Listen to this Webcast now. Network World's Network Optimization Newsletter, 10/09/07 Catching up on WAN optimization news By Ann Bednarz It seems there’s never enough time to keep up with all the news in a market as dynamic as network optimization. Here’s a quick glimpse at recent announcements and product launches helping shape the industry. * Gartner values application acceleration market Research firm Gartner unveiled its latest estimates for the size and growth of the worldwide market for application acceleration equipment, which includes application delivery controllers. According to the firm, end-user spending on application acceleration equipment will grow by nearly 40% in 2008, reaching $3.3 billion. By the end of 2012, the market will reach $5.7 billion. Executive Guide: Stay ahead of the data growth curve Get real-world advice on how to best deal with the explosion of data across nearly every enterprise today. This informative executive guide offers IT professionals detailed information on new technologies such as ILM and FANs, specific pitfalls to avoid when deploying ILM, as well as solid case studies. Download This Executive Guide * Cisco debuts branch office gear An application acceleration module is among a slew of new products Cisco rolled out for branch office environments. The company unveiled a router, switch, messaging gateway, intrusion prevention system and application acceleration module in an effort to help companies build more consistent branch office environments. “If you look historically at branch architecture it’s always been kind of ad hoc – you’d wind up in one branch with a set of services and then another branch with a different set of services. That creates a lot of inconsistency in workflow and things like that,” Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala told Network World. “What a lot of companies want to do is make sure the experience in the branch and the applications and the services that are there are consistent from location to location.” * Exinda revamps acceleration line Exinda Networks launched its second generation x800 application acceleration products, which the company says are easier to install and can accelerate applications more efficiently than previous versions. The x800 products combine WAN optimization, application acceleration, application visibility and application response measurement capabilities in a single appliance. New features include auto discovery of network devices; a hybrid caching capability; bi-directional application acceleration up to 155Mbps; and a new acceleration module for HTTP traffic. * F5 delivers Big-IP for service providers The new release of F5 Networks’ Big-IP Local Traffic Manager is designed to improve the performance of multimedia applications for service providers -- many of which are looking to adopt IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) standards. The new product performs application-layer switching for certain protocols that are important to service providers as they migrate from circuit-switched to packet-switched networks. Those protocols include SIP, an IP application-layer signaling protocol; RTP, which is used to format real-time applications such as voice and video; and the signaling-transport protocol SCTP. “As carriers deploy rich multimedia applications and look toward migrating to an IMS infrastructure, the BIG-IP device ensures that these applications and networks scale to millions of users while maintaining reliability,” F5 states. * Blue Coat bolsters lineup Blue Coat Systems announced updated operating system software and hardware upgrades for its ProxySG appliances that the company says will enable throughput increases of up to 220%. Blue Coat also looked to simplify deployment of its devices by creating a new installation wizard and building in what were previously optional add-in cards for pass-through routing and SSL processing. Some ProxySG appliances include improvements such as a secondary processor and more memory to increase throughput.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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