Research and Markets: Unbiased Study of the Rapidly Evolving WAN Optimization Market

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c19261) has announced the addition of Remote Office WAN Optimization Trends Volume 1: Technologies & Products to their offering

(PRWEB) June 17, 2005 -- Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c19261) has announced the addition of Remote Office WAN Optimization Trends Volume 1: Technologies & Products to their offering

This new report is a vendor-neutral, technology-neutral analysis of the rapidly evolving WAN optimization market. What began as a niche market for simple bandwidth management products using prioritization and various other bandwidth allocation techniques is morphing into increasingly complex, and powerful, products that address a broad range of remote office WAN challenges. The goal is to deliver what we call "Headquarters-Quality" service levels to users in remote offices.

In this transition some of the early bandwidth management vendors risk being left behind as innovative new companies redefine and expand this market space. The trend is to integrate diverse technologies including:

Traffic monitoring & analysis

QoS/bandwidth management

Compression

Caching

Protocol optimization

This arsenal of technologies enables vendors to attack performance problems on three fronts by increasing WAN bandwidth, aligning bandwidth utilization with enterprise business objectives, and reducing the effects of WAN latency.

The vendors are an emerging market that can be divided into two camps - generalists and specialists. The generalists optimize all application traffic while the specialists focus on the unique requirements of specific bandwidth-intensive applications such as MS Exchange and remote storage access. This report clarifies the positioning of each vendor and shows why network managers may need multiple solutions.

Key Vendors Analyzed:-

Actona (now Cisco)

Allot Communications

Brix Networks

Cemaphore Systems

Centrisoft

cisco Systems

Converged Access (formerly Sitara)

DiskSites

Expand Networks

NetQoS

Netex

Orbital Networks

Packeteer

Peribit

Riverbed

Stratacache

SwanLabs

Tacit Networks

Visual Networks

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c19261

Laura Wood

Senior Manager

Research and Markets

press@researchandmarkets.com

Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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