WAN Optimisation – How We Can Help

Response have been helping organisations to design and implement WAN Optimisation solutions for over 10 years and have delivered solutions for some of the world’s leading organisations, including ARM, Linklaters, AutoDesk and Arcadia Petroleum.

Having previously worked with Allot, Cisco, Peribit/Juniper, Packeteer and Riverbed, Response now work solely with Silver Peak Systems Inc, a leading Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization 2010.

 

Silver Peak Systems

Founded in 2004, Silver Peak is a privately held company that improves backup, replication and recovery between data centers and facilitates branch office server and storage centralization by improving application performance across the Wide Area Network (WAN). The company’s award winning appliances deliver exceptional performance improvements with unprecedented security and scalability across all enterprise applications, including data replication, backup, file transfers, email, web and real-time applications such as Citrix and VoIP.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Silver Peak is funded by Artis Capital Management, Benchmark Capital, Duff Ackerman and Goodrich, Greylock Partners, and JW Seligman.

Silver Peak offers a premier platform for WAN acceleration. This is achieved leveraging the following innovative technology components:

• Network Memory™ – Silver Peak’s patent-pending solution for disk based WAN deduplication. Network Memory inspects all traffic that is sent between clients and servers, storing information as a local instance in Silver Peak appliances. Repetitive information is delivered locally rather than sent across the WAN, improving application performance and WAN utilisation. Cross-flow payload and header compression provide additional gains on first-time data transfers and non-repetitive traffic.

 

 

• Network Integrity: Silver Peak employs a variety of real-time techniques to address packet delivery issues common to shared WAN technologies, such as MPLS and IP VPN. These include adaptive Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Packet Order Correction (POC) to overcome dropped and out-of-order packets, and advanced Quality of Service (QoS) techniques to prioritize traffic and guarantee network resources.

 

• Network Acceleration: Silver Peak mitigates the impacts of latency across the WAN by using various TCP acceleration techniques, like adjustable window sizing and selective acknowledgements, as well as CIFS acceleration techniques, such as read-aheads and write-behinds. These tools help to overcome inherent chattiness that can otherwise hamper application performance across a WAN

 

• Secure Content Architecture™ : Silver Peak keeps enterprise data secure with its Secure Content Architecture. All NX appliances are equipped with wirespeed AES encryption to protect local data stores. Optional IPsec keeps content safe when it traverses the WAN. Intelligent security policies can be established for granular control of WAN traffic.