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Product Version Certified: F5 Networks WANJet 3.2.1
Certified for use with: Check Point Next Generation with Application Intelligence

Product Description: F5 Networks WANJet is the industry's highest performing WAN acceleration platform, improves the performance of any application that utilizes the WAN. Deployed dual ended, F5 Networks WANJet accelerates file transfer, email, client-server applications, data replication, and custom applications, resulting in predictable, fast performance for WAN users in data centers and branch offices.
 
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Company Description: F5 Networks is the premier provider of enterprise application delivery solutions to Global 2000 companies. Enterprise application delivery is a new technology that combines the best aspects of WAN optimization and application acceleration. F5 Networks is the first company to offer enterprise application delivery solutions that manage traffic at the session layer. This provides true application awareness and intelligence to enable the optimization of networked applications as well as WAN connections. The result is full WAN utilization for high ROI, with guaranteed application performance under a variety of WAN conditions.
 
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F5 Networks WANJet Highlights

Delivers Breakthrough Performance
For All Applications
F5 Networks WANJet delivers unrivaled performance for a range of applications that includes file transfer, disaster recovery, network storage, back up, email, and SQL-based client/server applications. Built upon the Session Matrix Architecture, an integrated system of transport acceleration and application acceleration technologies that delivers optimal performance for both throughput-limited and transactional applications, F5 Networks WANJet delivers unprecedented performance on links of up to 622 Mbps.

Expands WAN Capacity and Application Throughput
F5 Networks WANJet utilizes Transparent Data Reduction (TDR), a revolutionary technology that dramatically boosts the performance of throughput-bound applications, to reduce the amount of data transferred over the WAN by up to 95%.Operating transparently on both compressible and uncompressible data, TDR effectively increases WAN capacity above specified rates, reduces the amount of bandwidth required by throughput-bound applications, and frees up needed bandwidth for interactive applications and voice traffic.

Mitigates the Negative Effects of Distance
In the past, IT managers have often assumed that adding bandwidth would solve virtually any application performance problem. Unfortunately, because of the way the TCP protocol works, adding bandwidth is often ineffective. TCP throughput degrades significantly on the WAN, particularly on high-latency, intercontinental links.
To overcome these inherent protocol limitations, F5 Networks WANJet implements a technology called SpeedArray. SpeedArray is a best-of-breed transport optimization technology that enables WANJet to fully utilize available bandwidth in the most efficient way possible. By enabling WANJet to adapt, in real time, to the latency, packet loss, and congestion characteristics of WAN links, SpeedArray accelerates virtually all WAN traffic and ensures optimal utilization of WAN links.

Ensures Predictable Performance
F5 Network's QoS feature enables IT managers to tune their global networks for round-the-clock application performance. IT resources can be logically grouped and managed according to business rules. As a result, bandwidth is preserved for applications like VoIP and users experience predictable application performance, regardless of WAN conditions, time of day, or geographical location.
OPSEC Integration
The OPSEC integration and certification provides the seamless integration of F5 Network's WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies with Check Point's market-leading VPN-1 software, significantly improving the performance of applications when deployed over IP-VPNs. F5 Networks enterprise application delivery technology used in conjunction with Check Point VPN solutions provides enterprises with optimal application performance while delivering the applications securely to remote users anywhere in the world. The combined solution dramatically increases application performance over any network, enhances the end user experience, and provides system-wide predictability and reliability.