Exinda Talks WAN Optimization, Future Developments with TMCnet at Interop

WAN optimization solutions provider Exinda was busy celebrating its news at Interop (News - Alert) last week that it has unveiled a virtual appliance that delivers the key benefits afforded by its Unified Performance Management solution, with its hardware-based WAN optimization solutions in a virtualized software load.

“It’s a solution set that we’ve already received a tremendous amount of interest in from cloud and service providers in that we are taking our physical appliance and allowing them to deploy it on their hardware of choice,” Kevin F.R. Suitor, vice president of marketing for Exinda, told TMCnet. “The goal of this release is really to provide the community at large with a choice of either physical or virtual appliances without giving up any capabilities.”

Thanks to the new Virtual WAN Optimization Appliance offering, enterprises and service providers can now rely on the Exinda virtual appliance to deliver WAN optimization services to users and customers, without having to use a dedicated hardware appliance.

The three pillars on which Unified Performance Management are built are: visibility, control and optimization.

“We are the only company that can offer a unified solution across all three of the core pillars of unified performance management,” Suitor said. “We look across all three of these pillars so you don’t need to.”

“We put everything into one unified solution so that you have a better total cost of ownership,” he added.

Founded in 2002, the Massachusetts-based company offers WAN optimization solutions that have enabled more than 2,000 organizations in over 80 countries to see, control, accelerate and optimize the traffic on their Wide Area Network. Exinda prides itself on maximizing network resources, controlling operational costs, and improving the user experience.

About 30 percent of Exinda’s revenue comes from educational institutions, another 30 percent comes from service providers and the rest comes mostly from retailers.

Also at Interop, Exinda was spreading the word that Ryerson University of Toronto, located in Ontario, Canada has deployed is 10060 series WAN optimization appliance to monitor traffic, prioritize applications, and optimize bandwidth usage on its campus network.

With the Exinda solution in place, the university can prioritize critical applications such as student registration and learning management while limiting the bandwidth available to recreational applications such as BitTorrent (News - Alert). The Exinda solution reduced BitTorrent’s usage of bandwidth from 200 Mbps to 30 Mpbs within a minute after the appropriate policy was activated. In addition, Exinda’s graphical reporting capabilities make it easy to produce reports for upper management.

“Generally, a small community of users in a university consume huge amounts of bandwidth, and we provide a fair share of bandwidth,” Suitor said.

As 2011 comes to a close in a few months, Exinda is putting the final touches on its new release (to be introduced in December) which will allow the company to extend its CIFS coverage as well as a release that boasts faster hardware and additional capabilities.

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