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May 17, 2011

Exinda Adds "Exinda Edge Cache" Feature To Its ExOS 6.1 Software

The leading provider of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration products, Exinda recently announced an enhancement in its Exinda's ExOS 6.1 software with the introduction of a new feature, called Exinda Edge Cache.

In a press release, Exinda said that Exinda Edge Cache has been designed to dramatically improve the speed and performance of internet applications by single sided caching of web objects including video, software update and other content on the WAN. It allows caching with single Exinda WAN Optimization appliance at the branch office or data center, leading to a superior user experience and reduced WAN utilization costs. With the Exinda Edge Cache, web objects are cached at the network edge when they are downloaded from the Internet.

It also offers cache statistics such as how cacheable the network data is, how frequently the cache is being accessed, and by how many hosts, helping organizations to understand the nature of their network traffic over time. This helps reduce http traffic on WAN by helping offload repetitive data from the WAN link,.

In the release, Exinda claimed that the Exinda Edge Cache can be aligned with an organization's optimization policies. This allows the administrators to cache only specific content for specific users or groups of users by exercising very precise controls over how much WAN bandwidth should be made available for each type of cacheable content.

ExOS 6.1 offers the ability to run Edge Cache alongside current TCP Acceleration and WAN Memory Byte caching simultaneously. This ensures that all traffic directed over the corporate WAN is accelerated with TCP optimization and application acceleration, as well as accelerating internet based traffic and applications using the Edge Cache.

“The use of video in the enterprise is changing the way the companies do business. Video training, video conferencing, and corporate videos are vying with recreational video traffic and other business applications for network bandwidth. WAN links present a challenge because of their often limited bandwidth and high operating expenses. The ability to offload much of this video traffic from the WAN can have a significant positive impact on application and network performance,” research vice president at IDC Lucinda Borovick explained in a statement.

Exinda's VP of marketing Kevin Suitor (News - Alert) claimed that Exinda customers have seen as much as 80 percent reduction in http traffic over the WAN, and more than 35 percent reduction in video and other content. According to Suitor, Exinda Edge Cache can help the companies to reduce the consumption of valuable WAN resources. The money saved thus can be spent to fund innovative projects that further reduce cost, Suitor maintained in his statement.

In November last year, Exinda, unveiled ExOS 6.0 as the latest generation ExOS operating system for its complete family of Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization appliances for network acceleration.


Madhubanti Rudra is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Chris DiMarco
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