WAN Optimization
WAN Optimization
The Challenge of WAN Optimization

In today’s business world, it’s no longer “The big beats the small”, it’s now “The fast beats the slow.” Most companies realize that having more bandwidth is not equal to having better performance; therefore increasing bandwidth will not necessarily solve their application performance issues.

And this is where WAN optimization comes in.

The rapid growth of digital data in recent years brings with it the concomitant needs for file storage, data accessibility and information protection, forcing businesses today to find new ways for leveraging WAN optimization in order to lower costs, to improve productivity and to strengthen their disaster recovery goals.

WAN optimization is critical to providing remote users with fast, secure access to important applications. Companies want employees to have access to information and applications with speed and performance that feels like they’re on a LAN. The challenge is providing LAN-like data transfer speeds over long distances and across the Internet, especially when traffic is competing with bandwidth-intensive applications like streaming video. The solution requires innovative technologies such as object caching, compression and protocol optimization, which means storing copies of commonly transferred data on both endpoints in a WAN, compressing files before and decompressing them after transfer, and prioritizing certain business-critical protocols over less critical ones.

To achieve these kinds of optimization goals, WAN optimization solution providers rely on a combination of hardware and software. Software is required to compress and decompress the data, to recognize and cache objects to accelerate WAN traffic and to implement policies to prioritize which traffic should be delivered immediately and which can stand to wait. But software cannot do all of the work alone. WAN optimization programs are installed on dedicated hardware that stores the files and processes the applications.

Lanner Solutions for WAN Optimization

Hardware appliances designed for WAN optimization are almost always x86-based platforms, allowing a shorter solution development process and more readily available scalability; furthermore, Lanner’s network-centric platforms combine performance with customization services, making possible a faster time-to-market. Lanner has a wealth of experience in network technologies and is partnered with industry-leading solution providers for the development of competitive solutions that meet most of your WAN optimizing needs.

See below for a sample list of Lanner’s WAN optimization centric appliances

Product List
Product NameProcessorChipsetMax. MemoryEthernet PortsForm Factor
MR-350FreescaleN/A1 GB5Desktop / Half-rack
FW-7582Intel i3/G540/G850Intel H618 GB61U
FW-8756Intel Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo/Pentium Dual-Core/CeleronIntel G414 GBup to 141U
FW-8865Intel Xeon E3/Core i3/G850/G540Intel C20616 GBup to 201U
FW-8895Dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 SeriesIntel C600 Series128 GBup to 652U
FX-5210Intel Xeon 7500 SeriesIntel 7500256GB22U
Application Story
WAN Optimization Application Story
Partners

Intel Embedded Communications Alliance

Lanner is an Associate Member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance, who are committed to developing modular, standards-based solutions based on technologies, processors, products, and services from Intel. Intel enables the modular network with standards-based, building blocks for the converged network that deliver enhanced performance, greater scalability, and maximum flexibility offering profitable new communications services and lower infrastructure costs. Visit http://www.intel.com/go/ica to learn more about these products and the Alliance.
http://www.intel.com

Cavium Networks

Cavium Networks is a semiconductor solutions provider for next generation security, content & network services applications. We design, develop and market a broad range of security processors, secure communication processors, network services processors & accelerator boards that enable wired and wireless security & content processing in communication, server and storage equipment. We have a highly flexible, scalable and integrated product portfolio with performance from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps that addresses the requirements of broadband, enterprise and service provider networks.
http://www.cavium.com

NetLogic Microsystems

NetLogic Microsystems is a worldwide leader in intelligent semiconductor solutions that are powering next-generation Internet networks. NetLogic Microsystems' market-leading product portfolio includes high-performance multi-core processors, knowledge-based processors, content processors, network search engines, low-power embedded processors and high-speed 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet PHY solutions. These best-in-class products perform highly differentiated tasks of accelerating complex network traffic to significantly enhance the performance and functionality of advanced 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, data center, enterprise, metro Ethernet, edge and core infrastructure networks.
http://www.netlogicmicro.com/

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