PRODUCT CATEGORY BROCHURE WXC SERIES APPLICATION ACCELERATION PLATFORMS AND WX CLIENT Accelerating Application Delivery in the High-Performance Business
As an IT manager, you have every right to be concerned. After all, you’re responsible for two seemingly contradictory goals: increasing employee productivity and reducing the cost of running the business. On the one hand, you’re expected to provide consistent application performance across your geographically dispersed business for all employees (headquarters, branch office, remote), as well as suppliers, manufacturers, and contractors.
Challenges Herein lies the dilemma. While resource consolidation can help you achieve your costcutting goals, it often does so at the expense of application performance by placing more pressure on existing data center and WAN resources. For instance, while Web-enabled applications reduce client software support costs, they also create a capacity crunch on the WAN, since Web-based applications are nowhere near as bandwidth-efficient as their client/server counterparts.
Web-Enabling Business Operations Similar resource proliferation is occurring in the data center, though for different reasons. • As the Internet became a strategic corporate productivity tool, IT execs added a “Web tier” that initially consisted of Web servers in front of their centralized application servers to support Web-based versions of their business applications.
• Contention: According to a recent survey, enterprise IT managers are running more than 100 applications across their WAN connections. Approximately one-quarter of these applications are considered business-critical. When these applications compete for a fixed amount of bandwidth, all of them suffer. • Security: Nearly 60 percent of today’s workforce operates outside corporate headquarters. These employees need secure access to business-critical applications and other centralized resources.
Juniper Networks Application Acceleration Solutions for the Distributed Enterprise WXC250 Juniper Networks® WXC Series Application Acceleration Platforms and WX Client give IT managers a holistic solution to problems in the data center and on WAN links, as well as a cost-effective way to comply with new corporate initiatives—without sacrificing performance across the distributed enterprise.
Real-World Benefits Sequence Reduction (MSR) compression technology, for instance, reduces application data flows across WAN links by 60 to 75 percent, which translates into a capacity increase of up to four times. This “extra” capacity can be used for new application rollouts without having to invest in additional bandwidth. The Network Sequence Caching technology, which 100s GB Network Sequence Caching 100s MB Molecular Sequence Reduction (MSR) Caching overcome their toughest wide area challenges.
The WX CMS software provides the following benefits for any deployment of multiple WXC Series platforms: • Visibility into WAN applications and performance, with unique customizable portal: The WX CMS software gives IT a complete view into what is happening on their WAN with deep visibility on applications distribution, performance, optimization and health.
firewalls that may be installed on the end user’s machine. The WX Client improves application performance over the WAN by recognizing and eliminating redundant transmissions, and accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols. The WX Client is unique in the industry because of its integration with Juniper Networks SA Series SSL VPN Appliances.
JUNIPER NETWORKS SERVICE AND SUPPORT Juniper Networks is the leader in performance-enabling services and support, which are designed to Planning, Implementation, and Deployment The WXC Series products integrate seamlessly with existing LAN and WAN designs and operate fully transparently, independent of other network equipment, applications, servers, clients, and WAN topology and interfaces. WXC Series devices are deployed at both ends of a WAN link, enhancing the WAN and application knowledge of each.
Summary With application acceleration, high-performance businesses are figuring out that they no longer need to make a significant compromise between IT and user requirements. In fact, discriminating organizations are going a step further by recognizing the added long term benefit of making an application acceleration solution part of a broader high-performance network driven strategy.
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