Juniper Networks best-in-class WAN Acceleration Platforms

• Provide broad application support
• Deliver the performance and scale to support large application deployments
• Offer a comprehensive management system for centrally configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Complement Juniper's high performance network infrastructure

Several initiatives have become critical to IT's ability to improve economics while simultaneously increasing WAN application performance and more tightly integrating distributed business processes.

The Juniper Networks best-in-class WX application acceleration platforms provide fast and consistent application response across the WAN to help ensure uncompromised access to mission-critical applications and services. High-performance businesses benefit by providing their employees, partners and customers with real-time access to important applications and services to meet the following business objectives:

• Increasing productivity
• Fueling partner collaboration
• Inspiring customer loyalty
• Improving operational efficiencies
• Reducing costs

The WX and WXC appliances, along with the WX Central Management System (WX CMS) software, enable IT to meet these critical business initiatives through the WX Framework. The WX Framework integrates several interdependent technologies, including next-generation compression: sequence caching, TCP- application- and protocol-specific acceleration; bandwidth management; path optimization; and management and visibility. To date, IT has had to make do with discrete point products that perform just one or two of these key functions. But only when these features work in concert can IT achieve the greatest success in meeting business goals and use their WAN applications to accelerate a competitive advantage.

The WX Framework provides the foundation for the Juniper WAN acceleration hardware and software solutions. The WX product family makes it easy and cost-effective for IT to provide the enterprise-class application delivery needed to support new applications and remote access to centralized resources. The WX product suite delivers a consistent set of features, though the WXC line offers one additional hardware-dependent capability called Network Sequence Caching. WX CMS software provides IT managers with unparalleled visibility into application performance over the WAN, enabling them to make informed and effective deployment, configuration and troubleshooting decisions.

Juniper Networks Application Acceleration Platforms for WAN Optimization

Product	Features
WX platforms	Provide a scalable approach to accelerating application performance, increasing WAN capacity, and enabling application prioritization and visibility. The WX platforms deliver compressed and accelerated output in speeds from 64 Kbps to 155 Mbps and support a range of connections to other WX and WXC devices.
WXC platforms	Identical to the WX platforms, with the addition of on-board hard drives to store repeated data patterns, effectively increasing effective WAN capacity by as much as 100 fold. The WXC platforms support disk capacity from 40 GB to 3 TB and WAN links from 128 Kbps to 155 Mbps.
WX CMS management software	Enables IT to configure and manage multiple WX and WXC platforms from one central location. The WX CMS software provides sophisticated but easy-to use tools for configuring and monitoring system features, and it delivers IT organizations with a unified view of application and WAN link performance, including statistics on compression, application acceleration, WAN utilization, QoS, and bandwidth allocation.