Application Accelerators Set to Bust Bandwidth Woes

Business Wire, March 7, 2007

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51673) has announced the addition of the new Frost & Sullivan Report "Application Acceleration Technology - A Boon" to their offering.

This Frost & Sullivan research entitled Application Acceleration Technology - A boon provides an insight into how Application Accelerator appliances mitigate TCP/IP Limitations and perform other functions to accelerate in multiples the speed of internet on the existing infrastructure. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following applications/technologies: TCP/IP Limitation, Mitigation, Network Security and Bandwidth Monitoring and Reporting.

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Application Accelerators Set to Bust Bandwidth Woes

Many corporate institutions require combined voice, video and Internet access with two-way Internet bandwidth of at least 100 Mbps. This is a forward-looking composite requirement that recognizes that a typical corporate with 250 employees will be watching videos, talking on the telephone, and accessing the Internet all at the same time. About 300 million people in the world are telecommuting to work today. Better, faster, and cheaper communication infrastructure would mean a phenomenal increase in productivity and a better quality of life.

Knowing the impact of Internet on mankind and despite hundreds of terabyte Internet bandwidth capacity across the world, what is stopping us from using bandwidth to its full extent? Why are we still talking of speeds in terms of kilobits when hundreds of terabyte Internet capacities have already been laid and tested?

A new technology called the 'Application Acceleration' has emerged, which accelerates the Internet applications over WANs using the same Internet infrastructure, circumventing to some extent the problems caused due to lack of bandwidth.

Application accelerators, as the name suggests, are appliances that accelerate applications by re-engineering the way data, video, and voice is sent/transmitted over networks. Application acceleration addresses non-bandwidth congestion problems caused by TCP and application-layer protocols, thereby, significantly reducing the size of the data being sent along with the number of packets it takes to complete a transaction, and performs other actions to speed up the entire process

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