Expand Networks Showcases Satellite Optimization Success at Global Mil SatCom 2010

Expand Networks, www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, will be discussing the  latest innovations in acceleration techniques for optimizing high-latency satellite networks  in the most challenging of military environments at Global MilSatcom, 2010, Millennium Conference Centre, London.

Expand is exhibiting with partner, satellite communications specialist, Sematron, during the three day conference. Visit the Sematron stand to learn about Expand Networks full range of WAN Optimization capabilities and discover how it’s virtual and mobile accelerators are advancing the scalability, affordability and performance benefits of WAN optimization across military, government and service provider environments.

Howard Teicher, Vice President for Public Sector & Satellite Markets explains, “Operating enterprise-class applications over low bandwidth-high latency satellite links demands a dynamic, robust WAN Optimization capability to satisfy all network performance requirements. Expand’s flexible deployment options, including virtual appliances running on commodity hardware, and client software for individual workstations, provide an efficient optimization capability for every environment.”

Expand’s WAN optimization technology, with integrated Space Communication Protocol Standard (SCPS) technology, mitigates the effect of low bandwidth and high latency obstacles that can traditionally impede the speed and performance of applications over satellite links. Combining SCPS with compression, byte-level caching and layer 7 QoS, Expand’s protocol agnostic approach accelerates all critical productivity tools and business applications across satellite environments.

Expand’s continued technology innovations have long inspired confidence in the delivery of communications tools over satellite networks, continuing to lead the way in military and government satellite networks, such as the US Army WIN-T INC II environment.  Its Accelerators are also battle-proven in Afghanistan and Iraq with U.S military agencies.

“Expand Networks has long and widespread experience with national security communications programs at sea, on land and in the air,” Teicher said. “With the industry’s best performance over satellite, and dynamic, robust WAN Optimization capability, Expand is best-placed to help organizations overcome the traditional low bandwidth, high latency obstacles that impede the speed and performance of applications and services over  satellite networks.”

http://expand.com/news-events/release.aspx?pressID=68e275f1-997f-40d5-a273-802800083ab2

Join Us: http://bit.ly/joincloud

EXPAND NETWORKS - PUT WAN OPTIMIZATION TO THE TEST ON YOUR NETWORK

	PUT EXPAND ACCELERATORS TO THE TEST ON YOUR NETWORK      Expand's Industry leading Wan Optimization technology enables the building blocks to deliver and control centralized Branch Office IT infrastructures over the WAN. Ensuring your branch office users receive acceptable SLA response times, ensuring maximum user productivity. Your Free 15 Day Evaluation Expand Networks enables you to see how your current WAN is performing. With more optimization, functionality, and reliability residing in a single appliance, Expand Technology means WAN Optimization makes business sense. - Gain visibility into your WAN application & traffic flows - Apply Layer 7 QoS to prioritize business critical applications - Avoid costly bandwidth upgrades using our virtual bandwidth features - Improve Application Response times over the WAN - Mitigate the impact of latency on WAN traffic flows Expand Networks reserves the right to limit, or restrict upon notice, participation in the offer to any person at any time for any reason. Best Regards, Expand Networks Simply click here and register your details for your 15 day evaluation Unsubscribe me from this contact list

Expand Networks Transforms WAN Optimization Entry Pricing with New Branch Office Accelerators

Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced two additions to its Accelerator product family - the 3830 and 3930. Delivering advanced WAN Optimization in the industry’s most compact form factor, the Accelerators outscale competitive offerings to set new standards for price/performance at the branch office.

Ideal for small offices, retail branches, VDI environments and harsh, “on the move” locations such as ships & oil rigs, the 3X30 series enables customers without rack space to realize the benefits of WAN optimization with the smallest footprint possible. The 3X30 series also assures investment security with a pay-as-you-grow licensing model scaling as the branch office or mobile environment grows.

Adam Davison, Corporate VP of Sales and Marketing at Expand Networks explains, “Whilst other WAN Optimization vendors reduce entry level ranges, we’re responding directly to growing customer demand for extending global network deployments into smaller or harsh locations, but doing so cost-effectively and with the opportunity to scale. This is equally critical whether in a small retail branch or a harsh satellite environment. These Accelerators provide affordable pricing without performance degradation; ensuring customers’ investments are fully future-proofed.”

Delivering the full capabilities of Expand’s AoS, the new Accelerators provide standards-based TCP Acceleration (SCPS), Compression, IPSec VPN and QoS performance enhancements that optimize and condition WANs in the most cost-effective deployment. The 3830 Accelerator includes optional 4GB flash for caching, while the 3930 offering is equipped with a hard drive, enabling maximum optimization across all Expand platforms.

About the 3X30 Accelerator Series:

* Robust WAN Optimization: utilizing the same robust management features found in high-end appliances.
* Price/Performance: The most competitively priced solutions for these environments, on average costing 30% less than competitive offerings.
* Scalability: Starting at 64KBs, through to 2MB, the Accelerators outscale all competition; supporting 64,000 TCP connections compared to only 200 from the nearest competition.
* Footprint: The smallest physical appliances on the market, enabling customers to deploy WAN Optimization anywhere.
* Flexible licensing: Customers pay only for what they need, scaling investments by simply purchasing license upgrades.

Join Us: http://bit.ly/joincloud

Expand Networks Takes WAN Optimization Performance and Installation to New Industry Heights

Advanced operating system enables easy deployment, management & monitoring with increased levels of optimization

Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced a major upgrade to its operating system – OS 6.3 – that will significantly improve the functionality, value and installation of its Accelerators. This latest OS runs across Expand’s range of physical & virtual Accelerator solutions, and introduces advanced features to help customers achieve increased performance, ease of use, value for money, greater WAN provisioning capabilities and improved management and monitoring efficiencies.

The enhanced Layer 7 QoS features of OS 6.3 provide the highest levels of integrated visibility and control in a single OS of any vendor in the market, enabling organizations of all sizes to maximize their WAN infrastructure. OS 6.3 also introduces significant advancements in ease of deployment; for example, high latency environments requiring TCP acceleration benefit from enhanced dynamic SCPS support, and a new RDP proxy feature enables “zero touch” installation into Microsoft RDP environments.

WAN Performance Made Easy

As IT infrastructures become more virtualized and distributed, so the need for effective deployment management increases. OS 6.3 has a number of new and enhanced features that enable organizations to deploy in a more dynamic & intuitive way, ensuring ease of configuration, use and ongoing management of Expand WAN optimization solutions. These include:

· Central configuration – Enhanced central configuration enables single sided configuration, making global deployments across multiple timezones as simple as possible

· SCPS TCP Acceleration auto configuration – Single Sided “dynamic auto configuration” means no need to configure remote accelerators for acceleration functionality

· TCP auto bandwidth optimization/Virtual Bandwidth – Extended ability to Optimize and control Physical and additional virtual bandwidth in dynamic environments where capacity availability is constantly changing.

· Microsoft RDP proxy – Accelerators are uniquely auto configured for “zero touch” installation into RDP environments, to deliver simple and immediate optimization & acceleration benefits for Microsoft RDP protocols with no need to change RDP Server or client settings.

Improved Optimization, Acceleration, Visibility and Control

This latest OS dramatically enhances application visibility and control via enhanced layer 7 QoS, enabling organizations of all sizes to maximize their WAN infrastructure. The new and enhanced features include:

· Enhanced VMware Vsphere4 integration - Fault tolerance and High Availability (HA) in virtualized environments enabling IT to take advantage of VMware’s suite of management tools such as VMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and High Availability, to dynamically deploy, manage, maintain and assure the performance of Expand’s Virtual Accelerator.

· Enhanced web caching for non Hard Drive appliances – The ability to now use hard Drive caching techniques in Extreme environments on our non hard drive platforms via the use of a 4GB Solid Stat memory card that simply slots into the available expansion slot.

· Enhanced TCP Acceleration with Hybla - Congestion avoidance algorithm counteracting the performance deterioration of TCP connections within high-latency terrestrial or satellite radio links.

Combining these new features with its existing RDP and Citrix Layer 7 Visibility and Control capabilities, Expand now boasts the industry’s most comprehensive Layer 7 QoS engine enabling IT to easily identify, manage and control all applications traversing the enterprise & Cloud WAN, while deployment has become even more simplified with the new dynamic installation management features.

“While tactical optimization technologies can deliver extra network capacity, if it is not being controlled appropriately it can have a detrimental effect on the company’s most important applications and, as a result, its business performance,” comments Efi Gatmor, CTO of Expand Networks. “IT has realized that maximizing the WAN is no longer just about just providing acceleration, but about enabling enhanced levels of traffic visibility and control. These latest OS advancements further enhance Layer 7 visibility and ease of use, to provide greater control and optimization of the WAN thus enabling organizations to assure the quality of user experience across complex environments.”

“Committed to a following a wholly holistic approach to WAN Optimization, Expand enables organizations to choose and use the right tool for the right application – and optimize it – regardless of network environment, or protocol. With our integrated technology, we continue to deliver this experience across physical, virtual and mobile appliances, and will continue to innovate in meeting the evolving needs of organizations,” concludes Barr.

Expand Networks OS 6.3 is available to customers on request from today, with general availability in May.

Join Us: http://bit.ly/joincloud

Bolivian National Bank Achieves Savings of $250,000 with Expand Networks WAN Optimization

Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced that Banco Nacional de Bolivia (BNB) has successfully improved business performance and achieved significant cost savings with Expand Networks Advanced WAN Optimization technology.

Implementing Expand Accelerators across its distributed environment, BNB has brought its employees into virtual proximity of their centralized applications and services, successfully enhancing user experience, increasing business productivity and extending returns on network investments.

Operating across 8 locations across the country, BNB has over 37 local offices. With application and data held centrally, BNB’s 1,300 branch office employees rely heavily upon the WAN for the delivery of its critical business applications. Following BNB’s own business growth and an increase in the economic activities of the country, its existing bandwidth provision struggled to cope with the rising numbers of complex applications travelling over the WAN.

Roberto Delgadillo Poepsel, national systems manager at BNB explains, “Increasing volumes of data being passed between our branches via such tight bandwidth links seriously impacted productivity levels. Our employees experienced slow performance of centralized applications, such as Intranet and e-mail. We also found that the quality of VoIP delivery very poor.”

BNB set up a centralized team to manage WAN traffic in accordance with Quality of Service (QoS) rules but having done so, quickly realized that QoS alone was not sufficient to solve the problem. Delgadillo continues, “We soon knew that this could only be a temporary solution, and we needed a more comprehensive optimization approach that would put a stop to the huge expenditure being wasted on increasing bandwidth and enhance user experience.”

BNB looked to adopt a WAN optimization strategy that could offer visibility and control as well as high network performance levels. As a financial institution, network security was also a key concern for BNB, and one which Expand Networks’ technology was able to satisfy, as Delgadillo explains, “Expand offered the best performance infrastructure for our network, taking away the need for continuingly increasing bandwidth investment, whilst its unique ability to guarantee security with the IP-Sec protocol was a key factor. Other technologies we looked at couldn’t provide the level of speed and performance that we experienced from Expand.”

Following an evaluation process, BNB chose to pilot Expand Networks technology, and found the results spoke for themselves. “In addition to security, other solutions simply did not offer the necessary compression we required for this project. Expand also offered the fastest RoI. This, compiled with the performance, security and flexibility of the solution, made it a simple choice.”

Following the success of the pilot, BNB chose to implement the Expand Accelerators between its central office, branch sites and local offices. The Expand solution has delivered a rapid RoI, with BNB saving over $86,000 in 9 months. Delgadillo continues, “Our new Expand Accelerators are giving users the impression they have a greater bandwidth, without having to pay for it. The performance speed of network operations is up 80%, meaning the business is running so much more efficiently and productivity levels are at an all time high. We have saved a huge $86,000 in less than one year. We estimate that these savings will continue to increase as time goes on and expect that a further $287,000 will be saved to be put to better use.”

Adam Davison, corporate VP sales & marketing at Expand Networks, says, “As users and their applications move further apart, business performance can suffer. Our unique integrated technology delivers a virtual proximity experience designed to close this gap through the delivery of virtual bandwidth. BNB is a great example of how our next generation compression and acceleration techniques can take limited WAN Links and fully maximize throughputs - on the exact same infrastructure.”

Join Us: http://bit.ly/joincloud

Lowering Latency For US Army SatLinks

Expand Networks, a supplier of WAN Optimization products to US Government and Military agencies, announced its WAN Optimization technology is supporting the PEOC3T and the United States Army to improve the performance of critical applications and communications over low bandwidth — high latency satellite links. Expand Networks Accelerators are enabling fast and reliable connectivity for mobile warfighter units in Operation Enduring Freedom and remote executive travel teams.

Working in partnership with DTECH LABS, Inc., Expand Networks WAN Optimization technology has been incorporated into the DTECH LABS M3C4G (Mobile, Modular, Man-Carry C4 Gateway) and HALO Tactical RED/BLACK systems. As part of the initial deployment, 24 Expand Accelerators, embedded in M3C4G and HALO units, have been deployed in the field. Expand’s WAN optimization technology, with integrated Space Communication Protocol Standard (SCPS), mitigates the effect of low bandwidth and high latency obstacles that traditionally impede the speed and performance of applications over satellite links. Combining SCPS with compression, byte-level caching and layer 7 QoS, Expand’s technology enables available bandwidth and real-time interactive TCP traffic to be maximized, extending ‘virtual capacity’ to military personnel.

Expand Networks products are presently used in the Tactical Warfighter Information Network (WIN-T) Increment 2 system to help provide warfighters and brigade teams with maximum communications efficiency on the move. The inclusion of Expand technology in the DTECH LABS man-carry product lines helps extend the capabilities of WIN-T to smaller, more mobile units.

Expand has been awarded best Satellite product of the year with their "Virtual Accelerator VACC"

TMC.Net have awarded Expand Networks http://www.expand.com Satellite Product Of The Year 2009 for their Virtual Accelerator (VACC) platform which enables Satellite Service Providers to deploy VM based Acceleration solutions for low latency applications in the field. Read more @ TMC's web site - http://bit.ly/4qnaBn

Read more Cloud Distribution News @ http://bit.ly/5NMFEA

Expand_Networks: Our Virtual Accelerator completed 09 with a bang, winning TMCnet's 09 Product of the Year: http://bit.ly/8Bo8z7 - bring on 2010!

Expand_Networks: Our Virtual Accelerator completed 09 with a bang, winning TMCnet's 09 Product of the Year: http://bit.ly/8Bo8z7 - bring on 2010!

Expand_Networks: Our Virtual Accelerator completed 09 with a bang, winning TMCnet's 09 Product of the Year: http://bit.ly/8Bo8z7 - bring on 2010!

Expand Networks Cited as a Leader by Independent Research Firm in Latest WAN Optimization Market Report

Roseland, NJ. – 10^th Nov 2009 – Expand Networks www.expand.com, a leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced that leading independent research firm, Forrester Research Inc., has cited Expand as a ‘Leader’ in its latest research report ‘The Forrester Wave™: WAN Optimization, Q4 2009’.  The report, authored by Chris Silva, was published on 10^th November 2009 and rates vendors based on current product offering, strategy and market presence.

Expand Networks was positioned amongst the highest scoring vendors across the three evaluation criteria to be named a ‘Leader’ in the overall result. Expand Networks earned the highest scores for management and usability, as well as architecture. With a total configuration time of 66 seconds, Expand tied with another leading vendor for appliance deployment time.

According to the report, ‘Expand offers excellent support for virtualized environments and nontraditional deployment scenarios such as those dependant on satellite-based WAN links. The vendor has pursued multiple device provider partnerships in the satellite space. Expand has excellent optimization architecture – offering multiple levels of transparency with or without tunneling, including all IP Layer 3  solutions and Layer 4 capabilities – storage architecture, client integration, and deployment architecture, earning it a top spot in current architecture offerings.”

Adam Davison, VP Corporate Sales & Marketing at Expand Networks, comments, “We are delighted to be recognized as a leader by Forrester. Our product portfolio, technology direction and business strategy is in tune with market needs as organizations look toward next generation WAN Optimization technologies, such as Expand’s, as a key enabler to many of today’s high profile IT initiatives including IT consolidation, centralization and virtualization . Our focus on enabling branch offices and remote workforces to take advantage of these initiatives demands a solution that is feature rich yet easy to deploy, manage and use.”  

The report is available at: http://www.expand.com/forrester2009