Expand Networks offers WAFS

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
08/02/05
Today's focus: Expand Networks offers WAFS

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Today's focus: Expand Networks offers WAFS

By Denise Dubie

As the application acceleration market continues to consolidate,
companies such as Expand Networks are loading their boxes with
more features to help customers consolidate their data centers.

Expand this week is expected to announce it will add wide area
file services (WAFS) to its portfolio of application
acceleration technologies. The company is also pumping up its
Accelerator product suite with Common Internet File System
(CIFS) and Citrix-based application acceleration. Expand
representatives says the enhancements will help enterprise IT
managers looking to deliver LAN-like application performance to
remote and branch offices.

"Today 87% of the workforce is decentralized, and poor
application performance is completely unacceptable," says Ariel
Shulman, vice president of marketing at Expand. "It's critical
companies be able to deliver optimal performance to distributed
workers."

The Accelerator appliances must be installed in both a data
center and a remote site. The remote-site boxes contain both
WAFS and application acceleration technologies such as caching
and compression, while the data-center devices can be equipped
to do both - or IT managers can choose to keep the two feature
sets on separate appliances. For instance, a WAN optimization
device would be installed next to routers while a WAFS box would
be installed near a file server.

"Our customers have told us they want the flexibility to split
the tasks in the data center and to reduce overhead in remote
offices by replacing the branch file servers with an Accelerator
appliance," Shulman says.

The new boxes work with the company's ExpandView management
console software. The company says the software automatically
discovers and classifies more than 100 enterprise applications
while detecting performance problems relating to degraded WAN
conditions. It also proactively fixes the problems for optimal
application delivery across a network, Expand says.

The three new hardware platforms are:

Accelerator 4920 Series: A remote branch device supporting WAN
speeds of up to 2M bit/sec and 10 remote sites. Has a 160G-byte
hard drive. Pricing begins at $4,495.

Accelerator 6910 Series: A device geared for the smaller
regional data center, supporting WAN speeds of up to 10M bit/sec
and 50 remote sites. Has a 400G-byte hard drive. Pricing begins
at $11,995.

Accelerator 6940 Series: Developed for large data centers, this
device supports WAN speeds of up to 20M bit/sec and 200 remote
sites. Has a 400G-byte hard drive. Pricing begins at $19,995.

All products are currently in beta.

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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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