Today, organizations of all kinds are increasing their reliance on Wide Area Networks (WANs) to provide employees, partners and customers with better access to information and applications. Delivering fast and reliable access to applications over the WAN is now an essential aspect of any IT strategy. WANs offer a way to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and improve Return on Investment (ROI) through virtualization, server-based computing and server consolidation strategies that shift servers out of the branch offices to consolidate and centralize them in the data center.

Expand Networks address this proximity gap by delivering WAN Optimization solutions specifically designed to enhance performance over the WAN and support strategic IT initiatives such as virtualization, server-based computing, server consolidation, satellite and voice / video data convergence . Expand Networks' award winning solutions with the industry’s most complete line of Accelerators (Appliance, Virtual, Mobile Client) along with ExpandView management platform address these WAN performance issues holistically by providing virtual bandwidth. Unlike other solutions that focus on just acceleration, compression or quality of service, Expand delivers all of these capabilities working together in one comprehensive, multi-service platform with extensive management capabilities.

While other solutions take a “bandwidth in a box” approach and without differentiating between applications, Expand provides tools that are application and protocol specific, managing the data stream at the byte-level. The net result from Expands Accelerators is that IT managers now have a complete set of tools they can use to create a network that is not only faster, but also smarter. IT managers can now work at the application and protocol level to squeeze the maximum efficiency out of the available bandwidth, by delivering a virtual proximity experience, whilst maintaining application performance, user satisfaction and data security.

Expand Accelerators are available in many sizes ranging from large data center appliances, large to medium regional offices, through to branch offices with a few workers. The Accelerators deliver best in class maximum bandwidth throughput and number of simultaneous optimized sessions & include the industries most complete range of routing protocols, Network HA support including HSRP, VRRP and WCCP, all without the need to change your existing infrastructure.

Today’s virtualized IT environments present the largest and most complex challenges to WAN Optimization and application acceleration today. Expand’s industry leading WAN Acceleration technology is now delivered on a fully virtualized offering enabling you to join in with data center and branch office existing virtual infrastructure & maximize your management, NAS and SANS at the same time as gaining complete HA at no additional cost!

The new Mobile Accelerator Client (MACC) with unique HIVE technology transforms the economics of WAN Optimization for smaller branch offices and mobile workers within medium to large sized businesses. It slashes overall TCO and addresses the increasing presence of roaming WAN optimization requirements for small branch offices while delivering appliance like performance.

To fully leverage Expand’s unique technology, consolidating the entire environment’s application and network utilization and optimization data is imperative. Expand’s full-featured central management, reporting and alerting system, ExpandView, will deliver application fluent network statistics, optimization performance, bandwidth utilization data and configuration management for the appliance, virtual and mobile Accelerators at your fingertips.