Juniper Enhances Application Acceleration Hardware

Juniper Networks has announced the next generation of its WXC application acceleration platforms – the WXC 1800, WXC 2600 and WXC 3400 appliances. The new WXC appliances will provide distributed enterprises with a more scalable, modular and cost-effective approach to delivering consistent application response across the WAN to help ensure access to mission-critical applications and services.

The new hardware provides a scalable and modular platform, which delivers higher disk capacities and performance in a smaller form factor. It will help businesses make the most efficient use of their existing WAN resources and improve application response times by providing a more LAN-like experience for branch office users accessing centralised applications.

Innovative Features

The WXC platforms seamlessly integrate application acceleration with Juniper’s routing, switching and security technologies. The new platforms use software that fully automates provisioning and management tasks, which provide the network and application visibility to help deliver applications exactly as intended.

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The new platforms improve application performance over the WAN by recognising and eliminating redundant transmissions, accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols, prioritising and allocating access to bandwidth and ensuring high application availability at sites with multiple WAN links. On-board hard drives provide support for Network Sequence Caching, which enable the devices to store repeated data patterns, and can produce up to a 100-fold increase in effective WAN capacity. The new appliances can accelerate WAN traffic up to 2 Mbps for the WXC 1800 – typically deployed at small to medium branch offices; up to 8 Mbps for the WXC 2600 – typically deployed at medium to large branch offices and small data centres; and up to 45 Mbps for the WXC 3400 – typically deployed at higher speed remote locations, head office or data centres.

The new WXC platforms also support Juniper’s universal Field Replaceable Units, which simplify logistical management and ordering for distributors and Juniper support depots, can reduce stocking costs and help lower the carbon footprint because less sheet-metal and corrugated-cardboard is produced, stored and transported.