Networking and Security - Juniper - Juniper Products - Application AccelerationWX Applications
Overview: A Multi-function Platform for the New Data Center
The Juniper Networks WXC™ application acceleration platforms are part of the WX family of products and identical to the WX platforms, with the addition of on-board hard drives to store repeated data patterns, effectively increasing effective WAN capacity by as much as 100 fold.
The hard drives provide support for Network Sequence Caching, which dramatically speeds the transfer of large files by eliminating repetitive data sequences. The hard-drive storage supplies the capacity needed to store long data sequences for long periods of time, enabling up to 100-fold increases in WAN capacity. The WXC platforms constantly communicate, exchanging vital information such as topology, accessibility and path-performance metrics. The WXC platforms also interoperate with the Juniper Networks WX application acceleration platforms; working with the WX 100 in a stacked configuration, the WXC platforms extend support for Sequence Caching to 155 Mbps bandwidth levels.
WXC platforms can be installed and configured in just 10 minutes using a web-based wizard. Configuration can also be fully automated using the WXOS™ and WX Central Management System™ (WX CMS™) software. IT simply defines centralized configuration templates; when remote WXC platforms boot up, they retrieve a network address, locate the WX CMS server through the domain name service (DNS), download their configuration file and begin operation.
Benefits
The WX product family coupled with WX CMS management software enables high-performance businesses to create a competitive advantage by providing:
- Uninterrupted productivity - Accelerates mission-critical applications and rich content by reducing the volume of traffic.
- Confident interactions and transactions - Accelerates delivery of web applications by speeding application-specific protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP/S, MAPI, CIFS).
- Real time collaboration and communications - Accelerates real-time business-critical applications, such as VoIP, by prioritizing and allocating bandwidth.
- Quick, secure access to the WAN - Accelerates features for secure applications, such as HTTPS, encrypted Remote Desktop Connections or CIFS with SMB signing.
- Proactive network and application traffic management - Provides the network and application visibility to deliver applications exactly as intended, on a consistent basis.
- Improved operational and cost efficiencies - Productivity gains the WX and WXC platforms provide in the form of application acceleration contribute to improving the bottom line.