Exinda Networks WAN Optimizer Applicance!
We are providing Internet bandwidth to different organizations and individuals and provide a variety of services over that bandwidth like Web, Email, and Voice. Customers can select from a category of services with different pricing matching their bandwidth or quality requirements and we need to make sure customer are receiving what they have signed with us.
Some are receiving Dedicated Bandwidth and some Shared Bandwidth and no matter in which of these two categories they fall, they expect good quality on delay sensitive services like Voice and Conferencing traffics which needs to be guaranteed. These policies can be imposed on DSLAMs and Routers close to the customer but not every detail can be addressed on Routers and DSLAMs besides it makes sense to have an appliance standing on top of the network hierarchy as a single point of policy enforcement.
Many vendors provide appliances which are called WAN Accelerators or Optimizers and they all optimize or accelerate traffic by features such as Compression, Caching, Changing TCP headers and enforcing QoS.
I have one of these appliances from "Exinda Networks" in my network for evaluation. It provides reporting through statistics and graphs and it does it really great! There are a variety of different report categories available such as Realtime, Applications, Hosts, Subnets, Conversations, and Application Statistics and in each category it is possible to get more detailed into a specific traffic type. All these reports help build up a network traffic profile and then develop and enforce proper optimizer policies to meet the concerns, criteria, and requirements.
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