Mobile Users | Improving performance of applications for mobile users |
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The Internet revolutionized the way companies conduct business, as virtually overnight email 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. 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. With the introduction of UMTS and GPRS Edge the delivery of applications is even worse. Standard latency on these technologies is in the range of 300+ ms , The result is a poor end user experience when using these applications on mobile devices. Web pages load at a dreadful pace, and when too many Windows users try to log on at once the network slows down considerably. Overall application performance is noticeably decreased. To increase the availability of these applications on mobile devices, companies need to look at technologies which provide optimization and acceleration of WAN links which are transparent to existing infrastructure and require no end-user configuration. MRA Group has developed a solution which will give LAN like performance on a WAN link for mobile users. We use best of breed proven technology in combination with our management system. The MRA solution consists out of three elements, a central appliance, a management platform and a remote software client. The solution is the only known solution which provides access to roaming users. Features and Benefits.
• WAN Application Acceleration for Any Remote User
• Scalability
• Security
• Centralized Management with OMS The schema below gives an indication what a typical installation will look like.
The solution is completely transparent to existing infrastructure and does not require additional rules in firewalls, routers or modifications to VPN’s. The solution is uniquely suited for speeding transactions with critical applications like web portal and web productivity applications, email, FTP, database ( Oracle) CRM (SAP, Peoplesoft, Siebel) and other enterprise software as well as CIFS based remote file system access.The solution dramatically speeds application response times across the WAN by as much as 400%. It also increases network throughput by up to 200 times and accelerates CIFS remote file-sharing operations by reducing the “ chattiness” of the protocol. The optimization is clearly noticeable in high latency and unpredictable links like GPRS Edge and UMTS. |
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