Verizon Business extended its year-old Managed WAN Optimization Services to companies in Europe and Asia Pacific, and it has added support for a second application acceleration vendor, Cisco Systems Inc., to meet the needs of enterprises using Cisco gear.
The Managed WAN Optimization Service was launched in the United States in Oct. 2007 using gear from Juniper Networks.
The Juniper Networks WXC platform integrates several technologies, including compression, sequence caching, application- and protocol-specific acceleration, bandwidth management and path optimization.
Cisco’s Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product family centralizes applications and storage in the data center, reducing the complexity of branch-office networking while maintaining LAN application performance.
"Verizon Business' multivendor approach to managed WAN optimization is a key service differentiator that enables customers to choose the platform that best suits their specific network and application requirements," said Melanie Posey, research director – hosting and telecom services, IDC.
Verizon Managed WAN Optimization Services are supported by Verizon Business’ IMPACT network management platform, a fully automated system that provides round-the-clock network and application monitoring and fault resolution. IMPACT gathers data for monthly reports covering application performance analysis, capacity audits and recommendations for enhancing network efficiency.
As part of its day-to-day management, Verizon Business assesses, inventories and manages a customers’ network infrastructure and applications to determine network health by evaluating bandwidth availability, potential impact to latency and traffic prioritization, among other key factors.
The carrier’s professional services experts provide customers with a detailed quarterly overview of network and application performance, including insight into the potential causes of performance degradation, such as rogue applications, unauthorized Internet usage, data replication and backup programs or network architecture issues.
