NEW YORK — Ever wanted to make a New York minute even faster?
On the WANScaler 8000, the Multi-level Compression was enhanced with a “Other vendors In 2005, Citrix acquired San Jose-based NetScaler for $300 million in cash and stock. It’s all part of an industry evolution toward looking at acceleration as a “In the early 2000’s, application delivery “Starting in 2003, CIOs shifted their focus away from improving network
Citrix Systems used the Interop show here as the
launch pad for its latest WAN and application acceleration products
WANScaler 8000 and NetScaler 7.
The WANScaler product takes advantage of Multi-level Compression technology
that comes as the result of Citrix’s acquisition of Orbital data earlier this year.
Greg Smith, director of product marketing for the application networking
group at Citrix, explained that the Multi-level Compression technology was
developed by Orbital Data and first available on the WANScaler 6000 series.
longer compression history and higher compression ratios.
Citrix claims that with the WANScaler 8000, there is an application response
time improvement of up to 300 percent, thanks to the Multi-level Compression
technology that is utilized.
According to Smith, the Multi-level Compression in the WANScaler 8000 is a
WAN optimization industry first that is different than competitive WAN
acceleration technologies.
“Unlike the competition, Multi-level Compression applies up to five
compression algorithms in order to achieve optimal performance for any
application traffic over any WAN condition,” Smith explained.
apply only a simple GZIP-like compressor, which is not optimal for all types
of traffic and network conditions.”
“Additionally, Multi-level Compression can reach very high compression
ratios, sending only a few bytes that represent many
megabytes results in faster application performance over the WAN.”
Citrix’s NetScaler product originally also was the fruit of a Citrix
acquisition.
The latest Citrix Netscaler version 7 includes 150 new features to the
product, many of them designed to make it easier to manage and use the product.
real enterprise need.
“The application delivery product industry is relatively new and growing at
a rapid pace,” Smith noted.
products like NetScaler and WANScaler were considered tactical products
purchased to solve a single problem in the enterprise network.”
plumbing (e.g. routers and switches) to maximizing application performance
for the end user.”
