Analyst firm Gartner has positioned Expand Networks in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant of its 2009 “WAN Optimization Controllers Magic Quadrant.” According to Expand, this positioning was based on the company’s ability to execute its vision.

 

Expand Networks (News - Alert) caters to the WAN optimization needs of various types of businesses such as data center, branch office, remote user and mobile workforce environments. It integrates hardware appliances, virtualized infrastructures, and remote desktops and laptops on a single operating system. The company makes use of ExpandView to provide improved deployment flexibility and manageability.

 

Gartner (News - Alert) defines the companies in so-called Leaders quadrant as a company that displays an ability to shape the market by introducing additional capabilities in their product offerings and by raising awareness of the importance of these features. The company expects the leader to have a significant impact on the growth of the market as a whole.

 

“Our product innovation continues to set new industry standards whilst effectively addressing the many challenges faced by today’s enterprises in balancing a distributed organization against the backdrop of centralized and virtualized IT infrastructures,” Adam Davison (News - Alert), vice president of corporate sales and marketing, Expand Networks, said in a statement.

 

Gartner also expects leaders to devise solutions that will be useful for other companies in its chosen domain. Leaders in the WOC market need to have a broad feature set, including QoS, generic compression, protocol acceleration and file system acceleration, states Gartner. Also, these features need to proven in substantial real-world implementations, according to Garner

 

Recently, Expand Networks announced that IPSTAR selected its WAN optimization technologies to enhance its managed services. IPSTAR will benefit from the optimized service which will ensure delivery of resilient and cost-effective satellite communications to customers - bringing remote users virtually closer to critical business applications. Expand combines SCPS with compression, byte-level caching and layer 7 QoS to enable IPSTAR to offer ‘virtual’ capacity.