WanVelocity
D A T A S H E E T
Powered by Array’s unique Stream Based differencing and
application acceleration blue prints, WanVelocity accelerates
all WAN traffic and maximizes performance of mission critical
applications while minimizing bandwidth on the wire. Designed
with the objective of making WAN based applications work
as if they are on the LAN, it brings together a wide range of
optimization techniques such as: Web Application optimization,
TCP Acceleration, Network Optimization, Business Traffic
Prioritization and Secure Acceleration Technology.
Highlights & Benefits
• Reduces remote application response times by up to 95% • Reduces network bandwidth utilization by up to 95%
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Purpose built to reduce the impact of network congestion, latency and packet loss that dramatically slows end user response times• Application specific blue prints and specific protocol optimization
eliminates redundant, chatty protocol traffic
• Stream based differencing avoids transmission of content that has
been previously received in the local data store, while compres-sion techniques actual data on the wire
• Window resizing, persistent connections and small packet aggre -gate improve overall TCP performance dramatically
• Available in both hardware and virtual appliance form factors, Array’s WanVelocity provides significant ROI in a very short time
frame
• Supports 50% more accelerated connections than competitive
appliances
• Virtual Appliance uses minimal system resources and can reside
with other applications while scales linearly with the addition of CPU cores, memory and disks
• Enables easier management of virtual and physical deployment,
transparent addressing, statistical performance dashboard, and auto discovery
• Provides centralized provisioning and management through inte -gration with virtualization management systems
WAN Optimization & Acceleration
WanVelocity significantly accelerates applications while reducing bandwidth costs using a
combination of application acceleration, network acceleration, packet compression, caching
and protocol optimization.
Why Distributed Enterprises Need WAN Optimization
Enterprise users who are local to corporate data centers typically experience great performance when accessing applications and services over a LAN. However, their counter parts in remote offices experience very different results when accessing those same resources over the WAN. Accessing applications across a WAN introduces network congestion, latency, and packet loss that can dramatically
slow remote end user response time. Many IT organizations increase
their spending by adding more network bandwidth to address these issues, only to find that poor application response time over the WAN has not changed.
With the addition of virtualization, many enterprises are consolidating servers into corporate data centers. But the consolidation of applications out of the branches and into the data center puts even
more strain on the corporate WAN. In some cases, this degrades end
user response time even further.
To correct these problems, IT managers use WAN or network
optimization appliances. These proprietary appliances sit at both ends of the network and attempt to mitigate the network impact on performance. These devices use techniques such as data packet compression, caching, and protocol optimization to reduce end user response time.
Application Acceleration vs. Network Optimization
Application acceleration is all about reducing application response time. Application acceleration is different from what is typically referred to as appliance-based WAN optimization in that it not only performs data packet compression, caching, and protocol optimization, but also knows enough about an application’s semantics to effectively reduce the amount of application traffic being transmitted over the WAN. Effective application acceleration techniques, such as Array Networks’s unique Stream Based Differencing, can identify and reduce application traffic to only the essential data objects (i.e. changes). By reducing the amount of data traffic sent over the WAN, application response time can be dramatically improved.
Appliance Intelligent Acceleration
WanVelocity is based on patent-pending Application Intelligent
Networking techniques. These techniques include Stream Based Differencing which enables WanVelocity to difference more volumes
of data faster and Application Acceleration Blueprints. Application Acceleration Blueprints teach WanVelocity the language of the specific application making acceleration, even faster. Blueprints ensure that no unchanged data need be transmitted more than once.
Application Acceleration Blueprints
Along with WanVelocity’s wide range of WAN optimization and acceleration techniques to speed all WAN traffic, WanVelocity specifically optimizes mission-critical applications through its embedded Application Acceleration Blueprints. These Blueprints turbo-charge the acceleration of your most important applications.
IBM® Rational® ClearCase® and Team Concert
IBM® Rational® ClearCase® and Team Concert are industry-leading
software configuration management(SCM) and development solutions, providing sophisticated version control, workspace management, parallel development support and build auditing to improve productivity. ClearCase and Team Concert allow remote developers to perform all SCM and development related operations; however, network latency can slow application response time when performing operations that modify and transfer files across the WAN.
Array’s Application Acceleration Blueprint for IBM Rational ClearCase
and Team Concert significantly reduces application response time, enabling a more reliable, real-time, and high-performance remote development capability.
Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server (MOSS), Office®
and Exchange
Array WanVelocity accelerates the document flow between centralized MOSS environments and Office applications such as
Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, InfoPath®, and Publisher® by minimizing
network traffic and reducing application chattiness. WanVelocity accelerates the full range of protocols employed by Microsoft Office,
Exchange and SharePoint, including MAPI, FrontPage® Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
(WebDAV) as well as their underlying TCP connections. The result is a significant reduction in the data transmitted and breakthrough performance levels. WanVelocity also speeds access to file services
over the WAN by accelerating the Common Internet FileSystem (CIFS) protocol.
Siemens Teamcenter/Solid Edge Insight
Many enterprises deploying the high-performance Teamcenter and
Solid Edge Insight applications find that their network infrastructure
cannot keep up with the delivery of large CAD files; this negatively impacts their ability to share these files among all their remote facilities. Array’s WanVelocity software, with an embedded Application
Acceleration Blueprint for Solid Edge Insight, can greatly reduce the
amount of data going over the WAN by sending only file differences across the network. WanVelocity Application Acceleration Blueprint for Solid Edge significantly reduces the application response times to remote sites.
EMC Documentum/eRoom
WanVelocity accelerates the full range of document formats employed
by Documentum Content Server and eRoom without modification to
client, server, or application software. WanVelocity securely accelerates file downloads and Web page renderings over the WAN to enable
outstanding performance — an improvement of more than 95%.
Array Networks WanVelocity reduces application
response times by more than 95%
P R O D U C T D E S C R I P T I O N
WanVelocity in the Distributed Enterprise
WanVelocity is available either as a physical appliance or as a virtual appliance. As a physical appliance it is packaged to provide the right price/performance envelope at the desired scalability level. As a
virtual appliance, it can be installed on industry standard VMWare ESXI or Microsoft Hyper-V. The flexibility allows IT managers to improve
network performance by increasing CPU cores memory and hard disk. The software form factor allows WanVelocity virtual appliance to be easily downloaded to a remote location and provisioned dynamically for the desired user workload.
In the data center, WanVelocity can be developed as physical
appliances or stored on the disks in a SAN and automatically deployed on one or more VM systems. By deploying the right combination of physical and virtual appliances, the administrator is able to achieve the right balance between performance, security, scalability, availability and cost..
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Features
Categories
Broad Application Support
Application specific Blueprints IBM Rational ClearCase® and Team Concert, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), Office® and Exchange, Siemens Teamcenter/Solid Edge Insight, EMC Documentum/eRoom
Generic Traffic acceleration Any TCP/IP, CIFS and MAPI traffic
Web application optimization All HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV and underlying TCP connections
File Sharing CIFS, NFS, FTP
Email Exchange, Notes, SMTP, OWA Web & Collaboration HTTP, SharePoint, Filenet, Notes, RDP
Software Distribution CA, Tivoli, SCCM
Replication & Backup All leading backup/replications tools such as Equalogic, DoubleTake Core Enterprise SAP, Oracle, Microsoft
Dev & Test Rational, VisualStudio etc.
Physical Appliance
NOTE: WanVelocity physical appliances are prepackaged on Array’s high performance hardware
WAN2050
WAN2100
WAN2300
WAN2500
WAN2700
WAN optimized throughput .5 1 1 1 2 2 6 6 10 20 45 90 155 310
Optimized TCP Conns 25 50 125 250 375 750 1000 1500 2500 5000 7500 10000 20000 50000
Concurrent Users 5 10 25 50 75 150 200 300 500 1000 1500 2000 4000 10000
LAN Throughput 100 Mbps 100 Mbps 100 Mbps 1 Gbps 1 Gbps Network interfaces 2 x 1 Gbps 4 x 1 Gbps 4 x 1 Gbps 4 x 1 Gbps 4 x 1 Gbps
Bypass ports (opt.) 2 2 2 2 2
Virtual Appliance - System Requirements
NOTE: WanVelocity Virtual Appliance software can be loaded on any standard hardware.
Server Hardware Certified on VMware® Hardware Compatibility List to run ESX or ESXi, or Hyper-V™ Certified for Windows® Server 2008
64-bit CPU Intel CPUs with VT (virtualization technology), or
AMD CPUs with AMD-V support
Ethernet Network Interface Card One available interface for out-of-line deployments, or Two available interfaces for inline deployments Hardware 2 GB RAM
30 GB Free Disk Space
Physical and Virtual Appliance Include
Application specific acceleration Blueprints accelerate all WAN traffic and maximize mission critical applications
Data packet compression Compression, caching, and protocol optimization to reduce end user response time Single instance store (De-dupe) History store for maintaining larger histories & removing duplicates
Stream based differencing Accelerate all WAN traffic and maximize mission critical applications
Web application optimization Optimizes and accelerates all HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV and underlying TCP connections
Generic TCP/IP, CIFS and MAPI traffic Accelerates any TCP/IP, CIFS and MAPI traffic
Business traffic prioritization Application-level QoS combined with standards-based packet marking ensures that business traffic is prioritized while ensuring VoIP and video interoperability
