Traffic Management - Exinda 2710:
The Exinda 2710 enables quick deployment of traffic
management for branch offices. With Quality of Service
(QoS), L7 classification, compression and when deployed
with the 6700 or 4700 in head office, it provides a
fully managed WAN and enhanced application performance
for all the branch offices.
Features:
- Small branch office
- Up to 10 Mbps
- Layer 7 Classification
- Application QoS
- Compression
The Network Challenge:
The wide area network (WAN) has inherent delay and
bandwidth limitations. Applications deployed across
the WAN are inefficient and slow due to these limitations.
Furthermore, repetitive data sent across the WAN increases
total utilization and introduces congestion. Many applications
compete for limited WAN resources causing further congestion
and degradation of critical applications. IT managers
are demanding far more economic and effective ways to
manage and optimize their existing infrastructure by
understanding how it is used, defining what is important
for the business and improving application performance.
The Solution:
Exinda Networks’ x700 series provides a range of
WAN optimization management appliances suitable for
branch offices and data center sites. These appliances
feature award-winning technology that enables you to
easily report on application activity and guarantee
performance of important applications. With Application
Response Measurement technology, Exinda allows you to
quantify application response times from a user’s perspective
at the remote site. This, in turn, assists in optimizing
applications with greater accuracy and measures the
benefits derived from effective optimization.
What You Can’t See Can Hurt You
In many organizations, when end users complain about slow applications on the WAN, IT staff have no idea why. This is because they have only limited visibility into the types of Internet traffic on the network. Without visibility and control, IT is essentially flying blind when it comes to addressing poor network performance, slow applications, bandwidth congestion or the need to prioritize critical applications like voice over IP (VoIP).
WAN Optimization Made Easy
The Exinda WAN optimization appliance allows organizations to instantly gain deep visibility into all network activity and identify why applications are performing poorly on the WAN. Providing network visibility, control and optimization in a single, affordable, “plug-and-play” appliance, Exinda allows organizations to rapidly identify bottlenecks, control recreational traffic and intelligently accelerate applications.
Before Exinda's network traffic monitor
- WAN activity is chaotic and uncontrolled
- Limited visibility into Internet traffic
- Slow applications
- Bandwidth congestion
- Aggressive recreational traffic impedes application performance
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After Exinda's network traffic monitor
- Clear view of all WAN activity
- Precise policy-based traffic management
- Applications are prioritized
- Bandwidth is allocated to high-priority users and traffic
- Applications are accelerated with faster response times
- Recreational P2P traffic is controlled
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How It Works:
Turn Chaos Into Clarity with Real-time Visibility and Reporting: Bandwidth Monitoring
Without effective network monitoring and visibility, WAN activity can appear chaotic and uncontrollable. Simply by installing the Exinda WAN optimization appliance for bandwidth monitoring, organizations gain visibility into network activity and usage. After running Exinda in monitoring mode for a short period of time, organizations can generate meaningful historical reports that show network usage trends and peaks and valleys in bandwidth utilization. With Exinda, organizations can control bandwidth and identify the top bandwidth consuming applications on the network including recreational traffic and rapidly pinpoint mis-configurations, congestion and bottlenecks.
Figure 1 – Exinda provides graphical reports that list the top inbound and outbound applications on the network. Drill-down capabilities provide fine-grained visibility into network usage. Reports can be automatically emailed in PDF format on a daily basis to key IT personnel or business executives.
Figure 2 – Exinda features industry-leading Microsoft® Active Directory Integration that allows organizations to “follow the user” by tracking network and application usage by Active Directory User Name. Network administrators can apply optimization policies to active Directory users or groups for precise control.
Take Charge of the Network and Applications with Precise Control: Control Bandwidth
Based on a thorough understanding of what is happening on the WAN, organizations are now ready to take control of network acceleration with Exinda. Exinda's WAN solutions provide network managers and administrators with the ability to set policies to manage and control WAN and Internet traffic. With Exinda, organizations can “fair share” bandwidth among various users, groups and applications while restricting unwanted recreational traffic. To keep low-priority traffic from interfering with WAN performance and application response times, Exinda allows you to detect evasive applications, limit the bandwidth allotted to P2P traffic or eliminate some types of recreational traffic altogether.
Figure 3 – Basic and Advanced User Interface Options allow Exinda users to choose the level of detail presented in the User Interface and easily toggle between Basic and Advanced interfaces. The Exinda Basic Web User Interface is designed for simplified operations and management of devices, whereas the Advanced interface provides more advanced policy-based traffic control.
Keep the WAN Running in an Optimal State: WAN Solutions
Exinda combines sophisticated traffic optimization with intelligent network acceleration. Exinda's WAN solutions provide detailed application classification and prioritization, granular policy-based traffic control and selective TCP and network acceleration. With Exinda, organizations can dramatically improve application response times, increase traffic throughput and reduce the effects of latency on the network. Exinda enables organizations to continually optimize the network and achieve near LAN-like application performance across the WAN.
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After Optimization
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Figure 4 – Exinda Benefits Reports illustrate the positive impact that optimizations policies have on the network. In this example, recreational Peer-to-Peer traffic had over-run the network until optimization was applied and business critical applications given priority.
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2710 Series
