* The Converged Compression Appliance
Converged Access last week unveiled a family of application acceleration products that the company says could cut monthly bandwidth costs in half and potentially could improve compression efficiency 60%.
The company’s Converged Compression Appliance (CCA) line performs what the company calls “selective compression,” which further compresses traffic such as VoIP that could already be compressed. The appliances can also auto-discover, monitor and report on more than 1,400 applications.
According to Converged Access, applications such VoIP and Citrix-based applications, which tend to be performance-sensitive, can be excluded from Web traffic that is locally cached to assure optimal performance for every application. The company says its appliances have “the ability to expand bandwidth by up to 10 times” and ultimately “the CCA can increase WAN capacity by as much as 240%.” The company also says the monitoring capabilities in the CCA enable IT managers to get an accurate picture of application and bandwidth usage.
The CCA appliances come in four flavors:
* CCA-6110 – WAN speeds of up to 512K bit/sec for small and remote offices.
* CCA-7110 – WAN speeds of up to 2M bit/sec for branch offices that have T-1/E-1 connections.
* CCA-8110 – WAN speeds of up to 10M bit/sec for campus environments.
* CCA-12100 – WAN speeds of up to 100M bit/sec for enterprise data centers.
The Converged Access CCA series of compression appliances are available immediately with pricing that begins at $1,500.
