Expand WAN Optimization

Manage your network according to business need
The alternative to WAN bandwidth upgrade
Guaranteed performance all of the time

Global Economies and Distributed Workforces

Evolution of the Network

With most businesses sourcing customers from almost every part of the world, and the trend for the workforce to increasingly locate away from the main corporate office, we are fortunate to have networks to keep it all connected. In fact, the network is the critical piece enabling your remote customers to do business with you and enabling your remote associates to work as one united company. These Wide Area Network (WAN) connections enable the global business, and the flexibility of network connections means that we can optimally locate our resources in the most strategic locations. The end result, our business efficiency and productivity are no longer constrained by geography.

Expand's WAN Optimization

Compression and QoS

When it comes to optimizing the WAN, there are two obstacles to overcome. The first is the WAN link's limited bandwidth. As the pioneer in WAN compression, Expand understands the delicate balance between analyzing traffic for compression and causing queuing and latency by interrupting the flows. The Expand compression technology focuses on performance, using low latency, lossless techniques that work on all applications and consistently deliver average bandwidth increases between 100% and 400%, with peaks over 1,000%.

The second obstacle is aligning the network to the business at the LAN-WAN bottleneck. Expand's QoS is easy to set up and immediately ensures that the applications running the business are running unimpeded on the WAN. It is not just prioritization, but includes sophistication to combat congestion, mark packets for downstream QoS handling (i.e., MPLS), and rate control shaping to make sure flows get the bandwidth they need. With both compression and QoS, Expand's WAN Optimization will turn an expensive and low-bandwidth WAN into a strategic asset that will perform better, deliver more, and ensure business priorities are met.