Roseland NJ – December 7, 2009 – Expand
Networks today announced that it has worked with VMware to provide
immediate support for all VMware View™ 4 remote display protocols
across Expand’s Accelerator range of WAN optimization solutions to
securely enable, accelerate and control VMware View over the WAN.
Supporting both TCP and UDP transport protocols, Expand can uniquely
provide enablement benefits to all VMware View protocols within a
single solution offering, including the newly incorporated Teradici
PCoIP® protocol.
Expand’s technology
is also unique in its combined ability to be deployed within a
virtualized infrastructure and to accelerate and control virtualized
traffic. Expand’s solutions can help organizations rapidly take
advantage of the significant benefits of VMware View 4, successfully
safeguarding and enhancing their investments in desktop virtualization
projects.
Scott Davis, chief
technology officer, Desktop Business Unit, VMware, explains, “Expand’s
multi-facetted technology helps enable all remote desktop protocols to
be delivered over the WAN in a VMware View™ environment, improving
communication efficiency, quality of service and security for customers
with virtual desktop WAN deployments. Expand provides unique technology
– such as its ability to work with the UDP transport protocol to
support PCoIP with secure tunneling – that helps customers protect
their virtualization investments while facilitating growth and
longevity of their virtual desktop deployments.”
The benefits that Expand’s solution brings to VMware View include support for:
· Teradici PCoIP
- Securely enable
transport of PCoIP within standard or advanced tunneling options
(Advanced Encryption Standard (AES256), Firewall Transparency and
Router Transparency Modes) eliminating the potential need to
reconfigure firewalls
- Apply QoS to control PCoIP traffic flow and assure end-user experience
· Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) & SUN Ray Appliance Link Protocol (ALP)
-
Compression and byte-level caching techniques enable up to 10 x more
users on the network and eliminate the need for bandwidth upgrades.
-
Layer 7 Quality of Service (QoS) enforcement for RDP/ALP, and within
RDP, provides monitoring and control at the channel layer to help
ensure VMware View desktops run unimpeded over the WAN.
- TCP acceleration mitigates latency and delivers a quality & guaranteed desktop experience for the remote user.
· VMware ThinApp™
- Prioritize VMware ThinApp traffic over the WAN using QoS techniques
· Multimedia Redirect
- Multimedia traffic that is redirected can be compressed, accelerated and prioritized with QoS
- Ensure that video or voice traffic gains the priority and bandwidth it requires over the WAN
· USB Redirect
- Accelerate, compress and control redirected USB-connected device traffic with QoS
Efi Gatmor, chief
technology officer of Expand Networks, explains, “At Expand we are
fully aligned with VMware View™ and are able to offer a unique
virtualized WAN optimization solution that helps assure the user
experience across physical, virtual and mobile appliances. Our
integrated technology, flexibly delivered as a Virtual Accelerator
(VACC), Accelerator appliance (ACC) or as Mobile Client software (MACC)
continues to evolve to help ensure we can add significant value to the
burgeoning market for virtualized desktops.”
About Expand Networks
Expand
Networks is the pioneer and leader in the WAN Optimization market and
is positioned by Gartner Inc. in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant in its Magic
Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2009[i]. Expand helps
organizations simplify their IT infrastructure while delivering remote
offices fast, reliable and secure access to networked applications.
This results in improved user productivity and cost-effective IT
management. Expand offers a multi-service integrated platform that
ensures superior performance for any application over any network.
From its headquarters in Roseland, NJ and its global locations, Expand
Networks serves more than 3,500 enterprise and public sector customers
in over 100 countries including: American Express, Bacardi USA, BMW,
Continental Airlines, Carr America, Colgate, Elizabeth Arden, Reed
Exhibitions, Target and United States Department of Defense with over
40,000 units deployed and over 2,000 MS Terminal Services and Citrix
customers. Expand is the largest supplier of WAN Optimization products
to US Government and Military agencies (greater than 10,000 units) and
also has the most units deployed at a single corporate location,
(4,500).
Expand Networks, Accelerator, Expand Compass,
ExpandView are trademarks of Expand Networks. All other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.
