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Juniper Networks WX Application Acceleration Platforms
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By Super Admin
Published on 21/10/2008
 
High performance businesses are figuring out that they don't need to make compromises between IT and user requirements.

They can accomplish both today. In fact, discriminating organizations are going a step further by recognizing the added long term benefit of investing in an application acceleration solution that is part of a broader high performance network-driven strategy.

This allows them to take advantage of continuous innovation and richer levels of integration which will optimize and extend their network investment.

High performance businesses are figuring out that they don't need to make compromises between IT and user requirements.

They can accomplish both today. In fact, discriminating organizations are going a step further by recognizing the added long term benefit of investing in an application acceleration solution that is part of a broader high performance network-driven strategy.

This allows them to take advantage of continuous innovation and richer levels of integration which will optimize and extend their network investment.

Juniper Networks WX is the best-in-class application acceleration platform. This is based on broad application support including Web-based, client-server, custom software, voice and video applications supporting TCP, UDP, MAPI, CIFS, and HTTP/S protocol.

It delivers the performance and scale to support large application deployments in geographically distributed environments, including unmatched acceleration of TCP Flow volume which maps more realistically with the number of individual network transactions.

Its comprehensive management system centrally manages, monitors, and troubleshoots application and network performance, and it complements Juniper's high performance network infrastructure, including routing, switching and security.

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.

Specs
The WX platforms accelerate applications between corporate locations, enabling faster response times, reducing WAN bandwidth consumed, and prioritizing mission-critical traffic. These WX platforms scale to meet a range of WAN bandwidth levels, interoperate with the WXC platforms, and provide a comprehensive feature set to optimize WAN performance.

 Platform Total Reduction Throughput Speed
 Tunnels Supported
 juniper wx15WX15 - 64 Kbps to 1 Mbps Up to 6 with all features enabled
 juniper wx20 WX 20 - 64 Kbps to 2 Mbps Up to 10 with all features enabled
 juniper wx60WX 60 - 512 Kbps to 20 Mbps  Up to 110 with all features enabled
 juniper wx100 WX 100 - 1 Mbps to 20 Mbps Up to 105 with all features enabled
 juniper wxstack WX Stack - 34 Mbps to 155 Mbps Up to 660 with all features enabled