The document provides an overview of Juniper Networks' WAN Application Acceleration product line. It discusses how the WX platform accelerates application performance over the WAN through techniques like compression, caching, and protocol acceleration. It also describes the various WX products, benefits to customers, use cases, and positioning in analyst reports.
3. 'We have gained crucial competitive business advantages through the deployment of Juniper's WX platforms,' said Kimihide Kobayashi, IT Manager, Denso Corporation. 'Our legacy network topology was inefficient and expensive, involving multiple data stores and network bottlenecks. The Juniper solution enabled us to consolidate our data centers, reduce traffic latency, increase application responsiveness, and lower ongoing administrative costs.
4. What is WX? Juniper Networks WX is the best-in-class application acceleration platform, that provides fast and consistent application response across the WAN. WX allows high-performance businesses to accelerate their competitive advantage, by accelerating their mission critical applications.
12. Today’s IT Environment – Centralized Apps and Distributed Users Data Center Web-enablement of applications Trend towards securing apps via SSL Centralize servers and consolidate data centers Users accessing apps, data, and files over the WAN Branch Offices Wan Corp Mid-size Small Remote Users Internet Partner Mobile Customer
13. Gartner Magic Quadrant Update Juniper Networks Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Leading Analyst Firm’s WAN Optimization Controllers Magic Quadrant Company Evaluated on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision SUNNYVALE, Calif., January 7, 2008 – Juniper Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced it has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant of Gartner’s recently released report: Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007.1 A leading worldwide IT research and advisory firm, Gartner evaluated vendors according to a strict set of criteria focused on the company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision in the WAN optimization market.
15. Benefit Customers benefit by being able to achieve strategic business objectives, such as deploying new applications, webifying existing applications, consolidating data centers, implementing disaster recovery or business continuity; and at the same time experience fast and consistent application response across the WAN;
16. Use cases Improve response times for interactive applications. Databases and other transaction-processing applications where there's revenue tied to every transaction. Speed bulk data transfers include backups and disaster-recovery processes, both of which require moving a lot of data in a hurry. WAN bandwidth reduction. When links are overloaded and the cost of adding more WAN capacity is an issue.
36. How the WAN Slows Applications SAP Oracle Manageability Web Application Contention The WAN Pipe VoIP Limited Bandwidth Latency More rich content Protocol chattiness Lower-priority appsslow down critical ones Inability to understand application and WAN performance
37. SAP Oracle Manageability Web Application Contention VoIP The Impact of the WAN on Applications The WAN Pipe Limited Bandwidth Latency More rich content Protocol chattiness Lower-priority appsslow down critical ones Compression, Caching Acceleration Application Control Inability to understand application and WAN performance Visibility and Reporting
38. How it works WX improves application performance over the WAN by recognizing and eliminating redundant transmissions, accelerating TCP, IP and application-specific protocols, prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth, and ensuring high-application availability, at sites with multiple WAN links.
39. 1x 55x Maximum Improvement Minimum Improvement 1x 40x HTTP/S CIFS 8x to 55x Improvement CVS MAPI 4x to 50x Improvement WebDAV FTP Clearcase TSMBackup Notes Sybase Some Application Acceleration Results 1x 50x 4x to 40x Improvement SAP Oracle
100. Visibility and Reporting: My WAN™ Portal User customizable WAN portal Provides an at-a-glance view of WAN performance & acceleration, including: Highest reduction Lowest availability Highest time above latency threshold Highest loss
101. Introducing theWXC Integrated Services Module 200 FRS – Feb 08. Integrates market leading WAN Optimization into J-series services routers Delivers high performance applications to branch users J-series provides best in class inseparable routing, security and application acceleration
102. Introducing the WXC 2600 and WXC 3400 Next Generation WXC platforms Lowers Total Cost of Ownership Common Platform Approach Universal FRUs IOC modules option (future) Ready for future enhancements Add modularity, increase flexibility and Scalability High Efficiency Power supplies Generate less heat FRS – May 08.
