Expand Networks and IBM BladeCenter

Delivering virtualized WAN acceleration services

"Deploying Expand’s Virtual WAN Optimization on IBM’s BladeCenter platform is radically extending our customer’s investments and has become a ‘forcemultiplier’ to maximize IT efficiency. Provisioning compute and network resources ‘on demand’ within a consolidated, integrated, virtual platform can exponentially leverage customer’s technology investments."

Efi Gatmor, Chief technology Officer, Expand Networks

Today, organizations of all kinds are increasing their reliance on Wide Area Networks (WANs) to provide employees, partners and customers with better access to information and applications. Delivering acceptable access to applications over the WAN is now an essential aspect of any enterprise IT strategy.

Telecom service providers can deliver virtualized WAN acceleration as a new, revenue generating service to augment their portfolio for enterprise customers.

Delivering virtualized WAN acceleration

Expand Networks delivers WAN Optimization solutions specifically designed to enhance application performance over the WAN and support IT initiatives such as virtualization, server-based computing, server consolidation, satellite network optimization, disaster recovery and voice and data convergence.

Expand’s technology can be implemented in a virtualized appliance using VMware running on the IBM BladeCenter providing greater flexibility. Expand’s technology can accelerate challenging real-time and time-sensitive applications like VDI environments, Citrix Presentation Server (XenApp), and Microsoft Terminal Services traffic along with ensuring real-time replication and accelerating batch replication and backup jobs.

Sample Configuration

Services
Control
Transport
Acess

Chassis	BladeCenter HT
Server	HS21 - Intel Xeon Dual Core
Memory	8GB
Other	VMWare

Expand Networks and IBM: a powerful combination

The combination of Expand Networks and the IBM BladeCenter family delivers the performance, reliability and affordability demanded by mission critical telecommunications applications. The IBM BladeCenter is the ideal platform for the deployment of these services providing a single platform to help reduce operating costs and complexity.