NetScaler Raises The Bar In Application Acceleration

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Friday, July 1, 2005; 01:18 PM

NetScaler, a provider in accelerated application delivery systems, today announced the addition of AppCompress Extreme, an advanced new acceleration technology that can speed the performance of mission-critical business applications by as much as 44x, while reducing bandwidth consumption by more than 90 percent.1 AppCompress Extreme goes far beyond traditional compression technologies by significantly reducing the amount of data being sent over the wire.

As a result, application users experience dramatically faster response times, especially for time-intensive application tasks over a WAN (wide area network). In addition to AppCompress Extreme, NetScaler also unveiled several new additions to its award-winning NetScaler Application Delivery System that further extend its lead as the only product to accelerate the secure delivery of any application to any user in any location.

"Real-world testing by The Tolly Group demonstrates that NetScaler's new AppCompress Extreme technology can accelerate some of the most time-constraining tasks in Web-based applications by up to 44x," said Kevin Tolly, president and CEO of The Tolly Group, the networking industry's leading benchmarking and consulting services company.

AppCompress Extreme dramatically speeds application delivery by eliminating the redundancy common in application content and sending only data that has changed since a user's original request. Instead of repeatedly sending an entire content-rich page or lengthy database report, for example, AppCompress Extreme intelligently sends only a small amount of data related to the specific fields or text that has changed since the previous request.

AppCompress Extreme works with any Web-based application, including custom-built applications as well as popular packaged solutions like Oracle, PeopleSoft and Seibel. It accelerates both HTTP and encrypted HTTPS traffic while remaining completely transparent to application users.

First introduced in 2004, AppCompress MP goes far beyond traditional HTTP compression technologies, giving NetScaler the only solution on the market capable of compressing data across any TCP-based protocol, including MAPI (email), FTP, CIFS (file transfer) and ICA (Citrix).

With the new version of AppCompress MP, NetScaler becomes the first integrated application delivery solution to support bi-directional data compression.

This new capability accelerates data sent to application servers from client PCs as well as application content delivered to clients from backend servers.

In addition to its new acceleration capabilities, NetScaler also announced the addition of more than 75 new enhancements and capabilities to the NetScaler Application Delivery System, giving customers better application monitoring, security, manageability and reliability.

"Once again, NetScaler has proven its technology leadership by introducing innovative new technologies that advance the state-of-the-art in accelerated application delivery," said Raj Kanaya, vice president of product strategy and alliances, NetScaler.

All new functionality described in this announcement will be available in early Q3 2005 as a software upgrade to the NetScaler Application Delivery System. AppCompress Extreme will be sold as an optional add-on module with pricing starting at $10,000.

The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting organization based in Boca Raton, FL., offers a full range of services designed to furnish both the vendor and end-user communities with authoritative and unbiased information.

NetScaler is the leading provider of networking systems that accelerate the secure delivery of critical business applications to any user in any location.

The NetScaler solution tightly integrates best-in-class load balancing and content switching with industry-leading acceleration and security functionality, enabling customers to improve the performance of both web and non-web applications by up to 15x.2 In addition to having all of the top five e-businesses in the world as customers, NetScaler also boasts more than 500 enterprise customers across all industry sectors, including some of the world's largest Global 2000 companies.