Ipanema Technologies, a leader
in application traffic management systems for wide area networks (WANs),
today announced Smart Path Selection (smart path), which allows
enterprises to combine multiple physical networks into one to further
improve application performance guarantees and business continuity.
Enterprises today rely on their WANs to deliver business critical
applications to their distributed workforce. A redundant network
infrastructure is no longer an option for specific market
sectors such as the finance industry. Many enterprises need to mitigate
the risks of relying on a single network or service provider. A
combination of an MPLS network with backup ISDN or xDSL lines is the
traditional answer to those concerns.
But these redundant networks are nearly always deployed in a manner in
which the bandwidth of the secondary line is only used when the primary
network fails. As a result, the capacity of the second (redundant)
network is wasted.
smart path empowers enterprises with a new model, were the bandwidth of
the primary and secondary networks are dynamically managed as if they
were one, leading to an optimized use of network resources and maximized
quality of user experience.
smart path is an additional feature of the Ipanema Autonomic WAN
Optimization System. It relies on devices (the ip engines) deployed over
the WAN at the data centers and branch office locations. smart path
relies on the Visibility
and Optimization
features of the Ipanema System to take dynamic decisions based on the
real-time status of the paths (available bandwidth, quality, etc.). Each
path selection is performed by making a comparison of this status
compared with global application performance objectives and a global
analysis of the traffic mix. The global application performance
objectives represent the expected network behavior needed to support an
application and its end users. The objectives are expressed in terms of
per-user quality of experience requirements using a mapping of low-level
network metrics into high-level quality of experience score such as mean
opinion score (MOS) for voice and application quality score (AQS) for
data applications.
smart path configuration is simple, being limited to the configuration
of the global objectives; there is no need to set local policies on
devices. Following the principles of autonomic networking, smart path
automatically adapts to the changing nature of IT environments, thus
leading to a extremely low total cost of ownership.
“For the first time it is possible to
seamlessly combine multiple physical networks into one unified logical
network without having to struggle with additional configuration and
management complexities,” said Mark Burton,
product management director at Ipanema Technologies. “Enterprises
can now benefit from new, innovative options to guarantee the
performance of their critical applications and ensure business
continuity.”
smart path leverages Internet ubiquity and performance and yields
significant bandwidth costs savings and dramatic improvements in both
business continuity and application performance guarantees. smart path
is tightly coupled with other features of the Ipanema System including
Visibility, Optimization and Acceleration.
smart path is available immediately.
About Ipanema Technologies (www.ipanematech.com)
Ipanema develops and sells next-generation solutions for application
traffic management that allow enterprises to automatically align the
network with their business objectives. The Ipanema System was specially
created for all large Wide Area Networks (WAN), both in- country and
international, as well as being for telecom operators and network
service providers. Application performance management is delivered by
integrating the functions of Visibility, Optimization, Acceleration and
networked application governance. The SALSA platform (Scalable
Application Level Service Architecture) allows telecom operators and
network service providers to create repeatable application oriented
value added services with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Ipanema is used internationally by many large telecom operators as well
as large multinationals in all market segments such as banking and
finance, public sector, energy, pharmaceuticals, automobile, IT, etc.
For more information go to www.ipanematech.com.
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