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As WANs became more popular, it became apparent that Web applications suffered poor performance over the WAN due to the amount of non-productive protocol traffic, or “chattiness”, created by such applications. Similarly, Microsoft Windows Exchange (MAPI) and file share (SMB/CIFS) protocols proved to create an excess of protocol chat as well. While these protocols performed well on local area networks, the large number of round trips due to protocol chattiness significantly degraded application performance across high latency wide area networks.

The Internet revolutionized the way companies conduct business, as virtually overnight e-mail and Web sites replaced business processes that had been in place for decades. By the turn of the century, enterprises were converting nearly all of their operations to Web applications. While this greatly simplified business, it soon became painfully obvious from a Wide Area Network (WAN) perspective that this conversion was anything but simple.

Web applications have become richer over time, including more interactive data with larger embedded images and file attachments. In addition, many client/server applications have a substantial amount of code that must be downloaded to the client browser before operation. All of these attributes make it increasingly difficult to deliver web applications across a WAN.

MRA-Group addresses the unique challenges associated with delivering web applications across a distributed enterprise. Through a combination of data reduction, latency mitigation, packet coalescing, and other innovative application acceleration techniques. We ensure fast and efficient web application delivery to all remote and branch offices.

The Problem with HTTP/Web Content

The performance of web applications is debilitated by programming inefficiencies. Up to 80% of web content generated by enterprise applications is treated by web servers as dynamic content, although the actual underlying content is often static. Dynamic content is limited cacheable by the browser or intermediate cache proxies; it is regenerated by the application server and repeatedly sent across the WAN to client browsers every time it is requested. This hinders application performance.

Most enterprise applications, such as Oracle, PeopleSoft and Siebel, create dynamic web content. As a result, less than 20% of enterprise web application content can be cached or accelerated by conventional web cache and HTTP acceleration devices.

Web/application servers control caching of objects by including cache directives within the HTTP reply headers when communicating with client browsers.

Web Application Acceleration solutions increase the response time by 5 times of Applications like SAP, Siebel, Oracle, Lotus, and many more.
The solution will enhance web application performance from any location. Installed single-ended in the datacenter, or dual-ended in branch locations, WebAccelerator speeds interactive performance, improves download times for static and dynamic data, utilizes bandwidth more efficiently, and reduces the cost of delivering web-enabled applications to the mobile workforce.