* Exinda rolls out Exinda 1700 and 6700 app acceleration and WAN optimization tools
When it comes to application acceleration and WAN optimization – in which appliances often need to be installed at either side of a WAN link – price and performance go hand in hand when picking a product.
Australian import Exinda Networks recently launched an appliance priced at about $1,000 that the company says will help large enterprise networks distribute more appliances to remote and branch offices. The Exinda 1700 is designed for offices that rely heavily on the corporate data center for application, and the appliance is said to increase data speeds by up to 400% for remote users.
Exinda, which competes with the likes of Packeteer and Peribit Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks earlier this year), also unveiled a high performance appliance to handle the traffic load across larger networks. The Exinda 6700 runs from 100M to 500M bit/sec and supports 1 million application connections, and it costs about $18,000. A price Exinda says can be as much as 40% less than competitors.
The data center appliance is installed on the network between the LAN and WAN, connected to the router, and the branch office appliances are installed on the other side of the WAN link at the remote location.
Company executives say the range of appliances coupled with Exinda’s software helps customers of all sizes not only manage traffic but also optimize bandwidth. For instance, the company says a feature dubbed Adaptive Response can help network managers incorporate what if scenarios into the software to give bandwidth priority to a variety of traffic.
For instance, with this feature, network managers can give the CEO’s VoIP calls priority over Microsoft updates on a converged network – and even postpone bandwidth-hogging activities such as updates until after work hours.
Another capability that differentiates Exinda from competitors, company officials say, is its ability to generate automated PDF reports. The reports can send events with detail to network managers, such as, an alert that unknown traffic is using corporate bandwidth. With that type of information, the network manager can lock down the port that traffic is traveling on to ensure a virus or worm is not being spread.
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