Exinda 8760 Series

Exinda 8760 Overview:

Designed for headquarter offices and data centers, the 8760 model expands to support up to 5 Gbps worth of traffic and up to 100,000 users.

This appliance has dual power supplies and RAID 10 support. Built upon Exinda’s new 64bit architecture, and featuring a multi queue network interface controller (NIC) combined with a multi threaded operating system (OS); this new model offers scalability and performance at a price that satisfies even the most cost-consious buyers.

The Network Challenge:

Everyday more and more data is being pushed across our networks. Increased growth and reliance of web based applications, VoIP, streaming video and Internet usage have congested our networks and made them unreliable. Network users are spending more and more time waiting at screen (TWAS) as applications compete for finite resources over stressed, over-run networks. This proliferation of traffic has degregated our networks’ speed and performce and resulted in productivity losses.

The challenge faced by IT professionals today, is how to gain visibility into the network, identify what applications and users are causing the congestion and put policies in place to ensure applications and data run smoothly over your network, despite the ever-increasing demand?

The Solution:

Exinda provide users with the best network experience possible by maximizing the speed and efficiency of applications over the network.

Exinda’s unified performance management (UPM) solution brings together a suite of advanced, best-ofbreed, visibility, traffic-shaping and WAN optimization technologies into a single, easy to-use appliance designed to improve network productivity.

Exinda is the only unified performance management solution on the market. Controlled through a seemlessly integrated, unified management console, Exinda reduces costs, increases revenue and allows you to get the most out of your network.

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

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

Features & Benefits:

Visibility
Provides insight into network activity, usage and performance. Gives you the information you need to keep your network operating at peak performance

• Layer 7 Classification
• Heuristic Classification
• URL Classification
• Drill Down Capabilities
• Real Time Monitoring
• Top Talkers/Top Conversations
• Active Directory User ID
• Anonymous Proxy Detection
• Application Response Time
• Service Level Agreements
• Citrix Published Applications
• Automated PDF Reporting

Control
Maximize network resources to the needs of your organization through comprehensive control over network traffic without placing heavy-handed restrictions on users.

• QoS / Dynamic per IP User
• Bandwidth Management
• Traffic-shaping
• Prioritization
• Active Directory Integration

Optimization
Rapidly, turn understanding into action that drives network performance, improves the user experience, and optimizes productivity.

• Layer 4 TCP Optimization
• Layer 7 Application Acceleration
• Universal Caching
• Compression
• Intelligent Acceleration
• Peer Auto-Discovery

Key Features:

 

Visibility: Bandwidth Management	Control: Bandwidth Utilization	Performance: BandWidth Optimization
Real-time Monitoring Gain real-time visibility into network activity with bandwidth management in order to identify performance issues as they are happening and rapidly troubleshoot your network. Alerts, warning and email notifications inform administrators of configuration errors, NIC drops and transmit/receive errors. Rich Reporting View summary reports of network activity or drill down for a more detailed granular view in order to pinpoint areas of concern on the network. Summarize and categorize peer-to-peer (P2P) and recreational traffic to determine how much time and data is being spent on non-business activities. Library of Pre-built Reports An extensive collection of out-of-the-box report templates means you can spend less time and effort building reports, freeing up valuable resources to focus on more critical tasks. Automatic Report Delivery Automatically generate and distribute reports via email to customers, users and stakeholders to keep them informed of key metrics that are important to your organization. Deliver reports in PDF format or in a format suitable for import into existing business intelligence applications for further analysis. Historical Reporting Run reports to identify trends in network usage and to support capacity planning. See how network usage has grown over time to better predict when you will need to add more bandwidth. Select custom reporting timeframes to align with business cycles, e.g. university terms, semesters, billing cycles or fiscal quarters. Microsoft® Active Directory Integration Integration with Microsoft Active Directory provides fine-grained visibility into network usage by mapping all network traffic to an Active Directory user name. Monitor traffic in real-time by user name and IP address, run reports by individual user and set optimization policies by user or user group for precise control. Application Identification Accurately identify application traffic on your network through deep-level inspection, Layer 7 packet classification and behavior monitoring. Application Response Measurement Objectively measure the response times of any application on your network and quickly troubleshoot network performance issues that are impeding application response and impacting the user experience.	Service Delivery Point (SDP) Centrally manage all Exinda appliances on your network using an intuitive Web-based interface for bandwidth utilization. Gain visibility across your network and simplify network management tasks including policy-setting and firmware updates. Fair Sharing Easily allocate specific amounts or percentages of bandwidth to individual users, user groups or sub-nets to ensure that no single user or host can monopolize your bandwidth. Policy-based traffic Management Control bandwidth utilization by limiting or eliminating unwanted network traffic such as P2P or other recreational traffic. Prevent low-priority traffic from interfering with the performance of your WAN or impeding response times for critical applications. Evasive Application Traffic Detection Layer 7 application signatures, behavior monitoring and advanced heuristics allow network administrators to detect and control applications that are designed to be evasive such as P2P and file sharing applications. Adaptive Response Automatically change the behavior of your network based on certain user-defined events and triggers. Set policies that allow your network to adapt to changing traffic conditions without requiring manual intervention.	Guarantee Bandwidth Ensure that your business-critical applications have sufficient bandwidth available when and as needed. With bandwidth optimization, you can increase productivity and improve the user experience by ensuring consistent response times and performance for the applications running on your WAN. Prioritization Set the priority of applications and allocate bandwidth accordingly. Should a bottleneck occur, your network can logically prioritize traffic to ensure that your most critical applications have the bandwidth they need. Intelligent Acceleration Improve application performance and reduce latency with a combination of TCP acceleration and application acceleration (CIFS, MAPI and HTTP). Selectively accelerate traffic based on an understanding of your users, applications and business needs. Advanced Caching Improve response times and lower bandwidth utilization by caching frequently accessed links and sending only changed data across the network. The Exinda cache is dynamically provisioned in real-time based on the requirements of each branch office or location. Caching for small data blocks improves the performance for applications such as Microsoft Exchange and Oracle Forms. Persistent Cache retains WAN memory even if the Exinda appliance is rebooted to ensure consistent acceleration performance. Differentiated Services Support Give precedence to selected traffic types according to the Diffserv standard and pass this prioritization information along to other networking devices to improve overall Quality of Service (QoS). Seamlessly interoperate with MPLS networks to maximize traffic flow. Scheduling Your network experiences peaks and valleys in traffic throughout the day. A smart scheduling mechanism allows you to change the behavior of your network based on time of day and traffic flow, ensuring bandwidth optimization. Schedule periodic tasks such as backups for off-peak times when bandwidth utilization is low.

 

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.

Before Optimization

After Optimization

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.

Network Topology:

Product Specifications:

Take Charge of Your Network and Applications
With more Web-based applications coming online every day, the amount of traffic crossing the network is growing exponentially. Network managers face the complex task of monitoring and managing network resources and bandwidth, while meeting user expectations for consistently fast access to applications. At the same time, they may also be mandated to reduce network operating costs. To meet these challenges, organizations must have a Unified Performance Management (UPM) solution in place that addresses the three key requirements of network management: visibility, control and optimization.

Components of a Unified Performance Management Solution
A Unified Performance Management solution brings visibility, control and optimization together in a comprehensive, tightly integrated and centrally managed system.

Model	8760
	Headquarters / Data Center
Licensed Bandwidth	100	250	500	1G	2.5G
Device Throughput (Mbps)	10000	10000	10000	10000	10000
Max. Concurrent Flows	2048K	2048K	2048K	2048K	5120K
L7 New Conn Rate (max)	6000	6000	6000	6000	6000
Reports (PDF)	80	80	80	80	80
SLAs	250	250	250	250	250
ARM Objects	30	40	50	50	50
Policies	2048	2048	2048	2048	2048
Hardware
Network Interfaces	Expands to 4 x 10/100/1000/10000 copper (onboard) + 24 x 10/100/1000/10000 copper/fiber
Ethernet Bypass Pairs	1
Network Expansion (optional)	Yes
Console Port	RS-232 male DB-9
Dual Power Supplies	Yes
Weight (kg)	26.1 kg / 57.52 lb
Dimensions (w x h x d)	443 x 86 x 681 mm 17.44” x 3.40” x 26.80”
Power & Environment
Power	Dual power supply (570W) Redundant Auto Ranging (100V~240V)
Environment	0-40C, storage temp 20-80C relative humidity 0-90% (non-condensing)
Approvals	CF, FCC Certified, RoHS

Technology:

• Application Layer 7 Classification and Monitoring - Signature-based deep packet inspection (DPI) identifies and controls recreational Web applications including peer-to-peer programs such as BitTorrent, Kazaa, Facebook, and MySpace while providing detailed reports on how bandwidth is being used. Classification on the Exinda’s 6720 high speed (ASIC-based) appliance allows wirespeed monitoring at speeds of up to 1Gbps. The appliances track usage and network utilization by application, hosts or conversations and provide extensive reporting via automated PDF and CSV exports and SQL connector.
• Application Specific Analysis Modules (ASAM) - Exinda supports detailed classification and analysis of specific applications such as HTTP, VoIP and Citrix. Appliances also monitor voice calls and conversations in real-time.
• Application Response Measurement (ARM) - Applications monitor application response times across network and server infrastructure as well as measure and manage user experience across applications.
• Adaptive Response (AR) - Appliances set alerts and notifications and run custom scripts based on triggers.
• Policy-based QoS - Appliances provide granular traffic control and application quality of service.

Documentation:

Download the Exinda Series Specifications Datasheet (PDF).