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NetScaler recently upgraded its traffic acceleration device to further speed application response times and reduce WAN bandwidth consumption.
AppCompress Extreme is a software upgrade for the NetScaler 9000 series of data center appliances. NetScaler says users can make some applications run 44 times faster over a WAN connection when deploying AppCompress Extreme. This is done through a mix of HTTP compression, caching, server load balancing and terminating TCP/IP connections on the NetScaler box instead of servers. The NetScaler hardware is a mix of Intel-based network appliance, which runs the AppCompress Extreme software, and a Layer 4-7 switch, offering a range of 10/100/1000M bit/sec ports.
Alpha Mutual Insurance, an auto, health and property insurance company in Alabama, uses the current version of NetScaler's compression technology to speed up PeopleSoft and other internally developed Web applications. Compression and traffic acceleration are important because most of the company's agents are located in 400 branch offices, connected to the data center via a 128K bit/sec pipes.
"The compression ratios with the current NetScaler product were pretty eye-opening when we first installed the technology," says Buddy Mesaris, Unix and Windows systems manager at Alpha Mutual Insurance. Network bandwidth consumption on the company's key applications dropped by around 60% to 70% when the NetScaler box was installed, he adds. "This lets us put out more applications without upgrades to the WAN."
Mesaris says the company plans to extend access to more PeopleSoft modules to branch offices with the extra bandwidth.
Another aspect of the NetScaler technology that appeals to Mesaris is that all the equipment is deployed in the company's data center, as opposed to putting compression/acceleration hardware in branch offices, or adding this technology to hundreds of remote routers.
The NetScaler technology works by compressing data at the server end, using the Gzip compression algorithm. On the client side, a Java applet or an Active-X agent is downloaded on an end user's Web browser, which performs the unpacking of compressed data at the desktop.
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