Juniper Networks WX Application Acceleration Platforms

The Juniper Networks WX™ application acceleration platforms provide distributed enterprises with a scalable solution for 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. Based on the comprehensive WX Framework™, which defines the elements required to accelerate business operations over wide-area links, the WX platforms optimize existing WAN resources and improve application response times by providing a more LAN-like experience for remote and branch-office users.

Product Description

The WX application acceleration platforms, members of a larger family of WAN optimization solutions from Juniper Networks, provide distributed enterprises with a cost-effective method 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 WX platforms improve application performance over the WAN by 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.

The WX products communicate constantly to provide distributed stateful intelligence about the entire network, exchanging vital information such as topology, reachability, and path-performance metrics. The WX devices also interoperate with their companion WAN optimization devices, the WXC™ application acceleration platforms, which include onboard hard drives to support the WX Framework’s Network Sequence Caching technology.

Through integrated WebView device management software, the WX platforms also provide unprecedented visibility into WAN performance. With the WebView software, managers can 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 WX product family includes five members: the WX 15, WX 20, WX 60, WX 100, and WX Stack.

WX 15
The WX 15 application acceleration platform features two copper fail-to-wire 10/100 Ethernet ports and supports total reduction throughput speeds ranging from 64 Kbps to 1 Mbps. Designed for small branch office applications, the WX 15 can support up to six connections to other branch office or data center WX or WXC devices.

WX 20
The WX 20 application acceleration platform offers two copper fail-to-wire 10/100 Ethernet ports and supports total reduction throughput speeds ranging from 64 Kbps to 2 Mbps. Designed for small to medium-sized branch office deployments, the WX 20 supports up to 10 connections to other branch or data center WX or WXC devices.

WX 60
The WX 60 application acceleration platform, designed for large branch office and small data center applications, features two copper fail-to-wire 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and supports total reduction throughput speeds ranging from 512 Kbps to 20 Mbps. The WX 60 also supports up to 110 connections to sites where other WX or WXC platforms are installed.

WX 100
The WX 100 application acceleration platform offers two copper fail-to-wire 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or two fiber 1000 Ethernet ports and supports total reduction throughput speeds ranging from 1 Mbps to 20 Mbps. Designed for large branch office or data center deployments, the WX 100 supports up to 105 connections to other WX or WXC branch office or data center devices.

WX Stack
The WX Stack consists of one WX 100 platform and up to six WX 60 clients working together as a single unit, delivering a scalable solution for the data center that provides total reduction throughput speeds up to 155 Mbps and supports up to 660 connections to WX or WXC platforms distributed throughout the enterprise. New client units can be added to the WX Stack incrementally, as needed, to keep pace with growing demands. Multiple communities of WX devices and WX Stacks can also be configured to support an unlimited number of locations.