LOOPHOLD Security Distribution has launched SonicWALL's WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series, an extension of the current SonicWALL next-generation Firewall (NGFW) suite.
The SonicWALL WXA Series consists of the WXA 5000 virtual appliance, the WXA 2000 and WXA 4000 hardware appliances and the WXA 500 Live CD. The offerings allow businesses of any size to select the right deployment solution for their network.
The new series significantly improves WAN (wide area network) performance between regional and branch offices and reduces traffic by up to 95%. It gives users faster access to mission-critical applications, resulting in increased employee productivity.
Says Martin Tassev, MD at LOOPHOLD Security Distribution: “Network speed and performance, especially between remote offices, can impact productivity and lowers efficiency within an organisation, a common problem for many organisations with a head office and branches in South Africa. SonicWALL's latest addition is providing resellers with a solution to resolve this issue for their end-user customers, and functionality is further enhanced through the integration with SonicWALL's next-generation Firewall technology.”
To simplify the deployment of WAN acceleration, the WXA Series attaches directly to SonicWALL's Network Security Appliance (NSA) and TZ Series appliances for seamless integration, without requiring any reconfiguration of the network.
SonicOS, SonicWALL's firmware, automatically detects, provisions and manages the WXA solution. Because the SonicWALL firewall is able to combine both application intelligence and WAN optimisation in a single solution, networks experience unprecedented speed and bandwidth efficiencies. Unwanted applications are eliminated from the network, while mission critical applications are allocated increased bandwidth. WAN optimisation then reduces the total traffic over WAN links improving network capacity and speed. All traffic is scanned for intrusions and malware with SonicWALL's Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection engine.
Additionally, since the solution is integrated with IPsec and SSL Virtual Private Networking (VPN) features, it eliminates the problems associated with WAN Acceleration of encrypted traffic by auto creating the routing and policy logic for remote and branch offices.
With the WXA Series, application acceleration is achieved through the de-duplication of transmitted data using SonicWALL's advanced proprietary byte caching technology as well as TCP protocol optimisation and data compression. Further, for Wide Area File Services (WFS), the WXA Series provides intelligent local file caching and CIFS protocol optimisation, which enables acceleration of remote file servers saving time and network resources.
The WXA Series works in combination with SonicWALL's DPI scanning technology and Application Intelligence and Control to speed up the network and better gauge where bandwidth is being wasted. This gives IT manager's granular control over network data while analysing every byte of every packet of all network traffic.
Networks also benefit from top-notch security scanning capabilities with the guarantee that data is moving quickly and still being scanned effectively. Ultimately, businesses now have the ability to control non-business applications in the branch and not compromise security while continuing to receive the benefits of WAN acceleration.
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