As businesses continue to attempt to deliver functional IT to distributed enterprises they are faced with many varied performance and cost challenges. To overcome them they’ve adapted old technologies and implemented new. While new application delivery advances have come through on cost savings, they’ve also created a new type of consolidated network traffic. Without strong visibility and control, consolidated application environments resemble a single application to the WAN with no visibility or the ability to inspect, control, and secure them.

Unprecedented Visibility and Control:

Ensure, Protect, and Provision any WAN Traffic

• Over 400 applications immediately identified and controlled
• Bi-Directional QoS
• Bi-directional application-aware reporting
• NetFlow Reporting

Layer-7 Application Aware Visibility For:

Citrix Web Printing: Cups	Audio/Video:  sip*, h323*, rtp*, rtp-sip*,  rtp-h323*, rtsp, h225, mms, q931, sccp, rtcp-sip, rtcp-h323
Peer to Peer: (bitTorrent, Gnuttela, eDonkey, Kazaa, Napster, WinMX, SoulSeek, DirectConnect),	Email: MS Mapi (Exchange), Lotus Notes
Instant Messenging: AOL, ICQ, Jabber, MSN Messenger, Skype,  Qq, Yahoo Instant Messenger

Transparency

As ways to deliver efficient applications were maturing, the underlying WAN technologies supporting, securing and controlling connectivity were also advancing. New WAN technologies like meshed MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching), network flow and packet inspection, and WAN based QoS (Quality of Service) delivered higher performance and guaranteed resources for business critical applications.

This challenges traditional WAN Optimizations that create ‘optimization tunnels’ between sites. Typically refused by complex networks and blocked at firewalls, these tunnels mask the original traffic information, completely preventing MPLS networks, packet investigation and WAN QoS from providing benefit. This usually means choosing between traditional dispersed WAN Optimization and service oriented, secure, and best-in-class WAN based service – sacrificing visibility, performance, and your control over your resources.

Expand Delivers Multiple Layers of Transparency

Router Transparency Mode:	Firewall Transparency Mode:	User and Server Transparency:
WAN and edge routers can classify, shape and mark traffic and IP flows Network probes and collectors can report data on the actual IP flows Encryption can be applied to sensitive traffic Threats (like SYN attacks) can be identified and prevented Unauthorized traffic can be blocked	Completely transparent and compatible to Firewalls and Intrusion Detection systems Encapsulates all optimized traffic in efficient UDP flows Full featured WAN optimization across deep packet inspected networks. Secures networks from malicious use while optimizing business traffic Eases implementation, configuration and management	Transparently deliver local services to end-users without local servers No changes to end-user systems Transparent distribution of data to remote offices Seamless support of Distributed File Services Transparent high-availability