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Juniper Networks WXC

Application Acceleration

Platforms

Product Description

The WXC application acceleration platforms, members of a larger family of WAN

optimization solutions from Juniper Networks, provide distributed enterprises with a

cost-effective solution for accelerating mission-critical business applications, as well

as voice, video and terminal services, over wide-area networks, maximizing WAN

investments and improving application response times for branch ofﬁce users.

The WXC platforms improve application performance over the WAN by recognizing

and eliminating redundant transmissions, accelerating TCP and application-speciﬁc

protocols, prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth, and ensuring high application

availability at sites with multiple WAN links. On-board hard drives that provide the

foundation for the Network Sequence Caching feature enable the WXC devices to

store particularly large data patterns over long periods of time, allowing the devices to

identify and remove repetitive trafﬁc separated by gigabytes of data or last seen days or

even weeks earlier, producing up to a 100-fold increase in effective WAN capacity.

The TCP-, application- and protocol-speciﬁc acceleration features help overcome the

impacts of latency, dramatically improving response times for remote and branch-ofﬁce

users accessing centralized applications over the WAN. Quality of Service (QoS) and

bandwidth management tools allow IT to prioritize application trafﬁc, ensuring mission-

critical transactions always have sufﬁcient bandwidth while preventing less important

applications from consuming an inordinate amount of valuable WAN resources.

Integrated WebView device management software provides unprecedented visibility

into WAN performance, enabling managers to identify top talkers, monitor application

throughput, performance and packet distribution across the WAN, review acceleration

statistics, and create Executive Summary reports that provide a high-level overview of

important performance characteristics.

The WXC products communicate constantly to provide distributed stateful intelligence

about the entire network, exchanging vital information such as topology, reachability,

and path-performance metrics to ensure maximum efﬁciency. The WXC devices

also interoperate with the Juniper Networks WX application acceleration platforms,

contributing to a complete, integrated WAN optimization solution.

The Juniper Networks WXC

™

application

acceleration platforms provide distributed

enterprises with a scalable approach to

accelerating the delivery of client-server and

web-based business applications and services

– including ERP, CRM, e-mail and le services

as well as voice, video and terminal services

such as Citrix

– over the WAN. Based on

the comprehensive WX Framework

™

, which

delivers the elements needed to accelerate

applications over wide-area links and optimize

WAN performance, the WXC products help

businesses make the most efcient use of their

existing WAN resources and improve application

response times by providing a more LAN-like

experience for branch ofce users accessing

centralized applications.

The WXC platforms support both inline and off-path

congurations, as well as multipath environments,

asymmetric deployments and secure IPSec

congurations over public networks.

WXC

590

WXC

590

Data Center

Branch

Ofce

Branch

Ofce

Branch

Ofce

Branch

Ofce

IPSec Tunnel

Switch

Internet

Private WAN

(MPLS< Frame Relay)

WXC 500

WXC 250

Summary of content (6 pages)

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Datasheet Juniper Networks WXC Application Acceleration Platforms Product Description The Juniper Networks WXC™ application acceleration platforms provide distributed enterprises with a scalable approach to accelerating the delivery of client-server and web-based business applications and services – including ERP, CRM, e-mail and file services as well as voice, video and terminal services such as Citrix® – over the WAN.
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The WXC product family consists of four members: the WXC 250, the WXC 500, the WXC 590 and the WXC Stack. WXC 250: The WXC 250 application acceleration platform features a 40 GB internal hard drive, offers two copper 10/100 Ethernet ports, and supports total reduction throughput speeds ranging from 128 Kbps to 2 Mbps. Designed for small to medium-sized branch office applications, the WXC 250 platform supports up to 10 connections to other branch office or data center WX or WXC devices.
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SSL Optimization The Juniper WXC SSL acceleration capabilities provide SSL encrypted applications like web-based (HTTPS), mail (imaps/pop3s/ smtps), and directory services (ldaps) with the same performance benefits as unencrypted applications. Once the applications certificates and private keys are installed on the WXC, they learn on the fly the key used by the client/server.
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WXC Application Acceleration Platform Functions Product Features Traffic services IP payload compression, protocol acceleration, QoS, traffic visibility, application identification, route optimization, IPSec encryption, packet aggregation Protocols supported Any IP-based traffic (TCP, UDP, GRE, etc.
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Specifications WXC 250 WXC 500 WXC 590 WXC Stack 128 Kbps to 2 Mbps 512 Kbps to 20 Mbps 2 Mbps to 45 Mbps 34 Mbps to 155 Mbps Up to 10 with all features enabled Up to 50 with all features enabled Up to 140 with all features enabled Up to 840 with all features enabled 40 GB 500 GB (redundant 250 GB drives) 500 GB (redundant, fieldserviceable 250 GB drives) Up to 3 TB Two copper 10/100 Ethernet ports Two copper 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports Two copper 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports 100-240 VAC,
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Ordering Information About Juniper The table below reflects base models only. Bandwidth upgrades (up to 2 Mbps for the WXC 250, 20 Mbps for the WXC 500 and 45 Mbps for the WXC 590) and options such as encryption and redundant hard drives, power supplies and fans (WXC 590 only) are also available. Please contact your Juniper representative or reseller for details. Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking.