New Performance Demands Placed on WAN Architecture in the Era of Connected Enterprise Drives the Commercial Value of WAN Optimization Solutions
Growing importance of high performance wide area
network (WAN) in supporting networking needs of modern connected enterprises is
poised to drive the global WAN Optimization Solutions market to exceed US$1.7 billion by
2024.
Applications such as email, workflow automation,
virtual desktops, and productivity enhancing solutions represent critical
elements that influence survival and growth of organizations. Companies are
therefore emphasizing on delivering the same to all employees, including those
at branch offices and remote locations. Increasing dependence on Wide Area
Network (WAN) for delivering and accessing these applications is bringing
bandwidth under the crunch. Given the bandwidth concerns and application delivery and performance
issues on modern WANs, WAN Optimization of late has become a critical part of
network management as it helps organizations in managing flow of data traffic
across WAN and accelerating network performance, so that employees of
organizations can connect and run a range of applications seamlessly over their
WAN, just as they do on LAN. Not only increasing throughput and scalability of
bandwidth and network, WAN Optimization also helps organizations to manage and
accelerate application performance over WAN.
The hallmark of WAN Optimization Solutions is that by
helping prioritize network traffic, they ensure that certain amount of
bandwidth is made readily available to mission critical applications. WAN
Optimization Solutions in recent times have gone beyond just queuing bad
traffic, to also include capabilities such as blocking unwanted traffic and
allowing it at a specific time in a day, prioritizing hosts and enforcing
several other relevant policies. WAN optimization also enables organizations to
deploy a range of cost rationalization technologies over their networks, such
as video conferencing, VoIP, virtual IT infrastructure, cloud computing,
collaboration tools etc. WAN optimization is especially important for managing
real-time applications such as VoIP, and IP based video streaming over WAN. The
strategy also ensures that these applications meet end-user performance
objectives, thereby protecting investments in business critical applications.
WAN optimization also helps organizations in centralizing expensive IT
resources in a data center without generating any latency issues. WAN
optimization also reduces the risk of exposure by improving the reliability and
performance of data backup, recovery, and replication.
Unlike earlier, when WAN optimization was mostly
focused only on accelerating devices and applications across networks to
resolve issues with application response time in branch office locations,
current WAN Optimization strategy focuses on ensuring transparency of networks,
ability to accelerate mission-critical applications and technologies that help
manage all communication aspects over network with optimum performance.
Sophisticated WAN solutions employ proprietary technologies such as transaction
prediction, TCP payload optimization, pre-population, and
protocol compression, resulting in about 60% reduction in bandwidth
requirements and about 50% enhancement in application performance. WAN
Optimization is especially being preferred by enterprises requiring fast and
highly efficient WAN experience, as it ensures faster connectivity even to
branch office and remote users, by optimizing bandwidth and consolidating
resources and applications. Expansion in branch office operations and rise in
number of remote users, which necessitate transfer of data or applications
between multiple LANs will continue to drive demand for WAN Optimization
Solutions in the coming years. Consolidation of IT infrastructure and branch
office servers into a single data center, rising adoption of bandwidth
intensive business data and applications on WANs and the subsequent need to
improve network and bandwidth scalability, enable efficient application
delivery, and accelerate network and application performance, will also prove
to be factors boosting adoption of WAN Optimization Solutions.
As stated by the new market research report on WAN Optimization Solutions, the United States
represents the largest regional market worldwide. Asia-Pacific is forecast to
emerge as the fastest growing market with a CAGR of 13.6% over the analysis
period. Growth in the region is driven by strong economic development,
increasing entrepreneurship and a parallel rise in business activity, rising
investments in cutting edge enterprise IT technologies, mushrooming of small
businesses, increase in mobile workforce and the subsequent need for
establishing 24/7 communications between enterprises and employees in
remote/branch offices. On-Premise WAN Optimization Solutions
represent the dominant deployment mode, but the evolution of managed services
model is driving faster deployment of Cloud Service WAN Optimization Solutions.
Major players in the market include Array Networks,
Inc., Allot Communications Ltd., Circadence Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc.,
Citrix Systems, Inc., F5 Networks, Inc., InfoVista Corporation, Juniper
Networks, Inc., Radware Ltd., Riverbed Technology, Silver Peak Systems, Inc.,
and Streamcore among others.
The research report titled "WAN Optimization Solutions – Market
Analysis, Trends, and Forecasts"
announced by Global Industry Analysts Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends,
growth drivers, innovations and launches, and strategic industry activities various
players. The report provides market estimates and projections in US$ million for
WAN Optimization Solutions for all major geographic markets including the US,
Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia, and Rest of
Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, India, and Rest of Asia-Pacific), Latin America
(Brazil, and Rest of Latin America), and Rest of World. Deployment Modes
analyzed include
On-Premise Solutions, and Cloud Service Solutions.
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