Appliances speed converged traffic

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
07/28/05
Today's focus: Appliances speed converged traffic

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Today's focus: Appliances speed converged traffic

By Denise Dubie

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.

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Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management
for Network World. Reach her at <mailto:ddubie@nww.com>.
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