Juniper Networks Announces Application Acceleration Hardware

Juniper Networks Inc. has announced its WXC application acceleration platforms – the WXC 1800, WXC 2600 and WXC 3400 appliances. The WXC appliances provide distributed enterprises with a scalable, modular and approach to delivering fast and consistent application response across the WAN to help ensure uncompromised access to mission-critical applications and services. The WXC hardware provides a scalable and modular platform, which delivers higher disk capacities and performance in a smaller form factor. They help businesses make the most efficient use of their existing WAN resources and improve application response times by providing a more LAN-like experience for branch office users accessing centralized applications.



The WXC platforms integrate application acceleration with Juniper’s best-in-class routing, switching and security technologies. The new platforms use software that fully automates provisioning and management tasks, which provide the network and application visibility to help deliver applications exactly as intended. The WXC platforms improve application performance over the WAN by recognizing and eliminating redundant transmissions, accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols, prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth and ensuring high application availability at sites with multiple WAN links. On-board hard drives provide support for Network Sequence Caching, which enable the devices to store repeated data patterns, and can produce up to a 100-fold increase in effective WAN capacity. The Juniper Networks WXC 1800, 2600 and 3400 appliances are available today through Juniper Networks and its global network of reseller partners. WXC 1800 appliance supports up to 10 connections, WXC 2600 appliance supports up to 20 connections, and WXC 3400 supports up to 140 connections.