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With the SonicWALL WAN Acceleration (WXA) Series and Application Intelligence and Control

10 Ways to Optimize Your Network


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IT o ten tries to improve Wide Area Network (WAN) per ormance by expendingbudget on more bandwidth or enhanced services. Instead o continuing a perpetualcycle o buying additional bandwidth, why not optimize the existing WAN bandwidthyou already have and re resh your network security solution at the same time?

Network Optimization

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SonicWALL uniquely consolidates enterprise-class Application

Intelligence and Control, Deep Packet Inspection Scanning, as wellas WAN Acceleration or the distributed enterprise. The ollowinge-book outlines 10 ways SonicWALL solutions can help optimizebandwidth, enhance per ormance, and increase employeeproductivity, without sacri cing security.


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1. Data De-duplication

Distributed network application users collaborating with co-workers o ten retransmitentire les multiple times, unnecessarily sending the same data over and over.

Data de-duplication via byte and le caching reduces bandwidth consumption andlowers latency by orders o magnitude, delivering aster response times and a betterexperience or all users.

Data de-duplication reduces tra c by transmitting only incremental changes.

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WAN Acceleration


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2. Windows File Share Acceleration

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With Windows File Sharing (WFS), multiple usersaccessing the same le across a WAN can increase thebandwidth required when accessing the same data.

Transmitting only changed data instead o entire datastructures signi cantly improves response times or userswhile reducing bandwidth consumption.

WFS Acceleration caches the most-used flesand metadata locally to minimize redundant data trans ers.

Branch Office

WindowsFile Share

WXA Appliance

Firewall

WXA Appliance

Firewall

Corporate Headquarters

Internet

WAN Acceleration


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3. Protocol Optimization

Applications designed to work in a Local Area Network (LAN) environment may not work aswell over a WAN connection because o chattiness or ine ciencies in how the applicationcommunicates.

Protocol optimization delivers snappy, LAN-like application per ormance or usersaccessing shared resources over the WAN.

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Protocol optimization makes applications more responsivewhen accessed over the WAN

With WAN AccellerationWithout WAN Accelleration

30ms-300ms RT T30ms-300ms RT T

(x100, x200, x1,000)

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4. Data Compression

Todays sophisticated applications generate anever-growing volume o network tra c.

Data compression across the WAN increases per ormanceand reduces latency.

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Data compression across the WAN

increases per ormance and reduces latency.

With Data CompressionWithout Data Compression

WAN Acceleration


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Unproductive

Applications

BusinessCriticalApplications

There is a rapidly increasing, high volume o application tra c on todays networks thatcan overburden existing WAN solutions.

Application-intelligent rewalls visualize and lter non-productive and dangerous applications while orwardingbusiness critical applications.

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5. Application Intelligence

Application-intelligent frewalls can flter unproductive applications soonly critical applications are optimized.

Application Intelligence and Control


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6. Blocking Undesirable Applications

Employee use o time-wasting and dangerous applications poses additional challenges or IT.

Application Intelligence and Control provides the tools or the administratorto identi y and block potentially dangerous application tra c such as peer-to-peer (P2P), instant messaging and rogue applications.

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Application Intelligence and Control on a Next-Generation Firewall canidenti y and block unproductive or dangerous applications

be ore they enter your network.



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7. Bandwidth-managing Applications

Critical business applications need bandwidth prioritization, while socialmedia and video streaming applications may need to be bandwidth-throttledor completely blocked.

Application Intelligence and Control can allow authorized use o applications (e.g.,Facebook or marketing or YouTube or training), while blocking recreational useeven at the eature level (e.g., Farmville use on Facebook). It can also allow business-critical applications like Sales orce.com to be prioritized across the network.

Application Intelligence and Control provides tools or administrators to

sort the productive rom the counter-productive.

Salesforce.comOracleTeleconferencing and VoIPFaceBook


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With other WAN optimization solutions, the administrator must choose to deploy thesolution inside or outside the security boundary, o ten leaving the network vulnerable.

SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewalls provide Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspectionor both malware protection and intrusion prevention across all tra cregardless o le

size within your network, without compromising network per ormance.

8. Increasing Security

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With SonicWALL, you dont have tosacrifce security or optimization.

Firewall Firewall

Remote Office Corporate Headquarters

Internet

WXA Appliance WXA Appliance

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Organizations need reporting and visualization tools to help them quickly identi y network ine ciencies.

Real-time visualization delivers tools or administrators to gain strategicinsight into the per ormance gains and see the cost savings obtained byWAN acceleration, while continuing to identi y undesirable or unsa eapplication usage, which enables IT to efectively secure and control

the network, and urther minimize TCO.

9. Real-time Visualization

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Dont pull into the ast lane with your eyes closed.

Application Visualization


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10. Efortless Deployment and Manageability

SonicWALL consolidates management o WAN Acceleration, Application Intelligenceand Control, DPI Scanning, VPN and more into a single inter ace.

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Designed or efortless manageability, SonicWALL reducescomplexity through automatic provisioning o the WXA applianceto streamline the placement, deployment, and con gurationmanagement. Providing a consolidated management into asingle inter ace helps ease the cost o deployment and lowerstotal cost o ownership by minimizing in rastructure, trainingand administrative overhead.

Managing an integrated plat orm is easier and more secure than piecing together multiple, hole-ridden solutions.

Management

ApplicationIntelligenceand Control

WANAcceleration VPN

DPIScanningWireless

SingleConsolidated

Interface


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SonicWALL delivers Network Optimization or the enterprise, uniquely consolidatingApplication Intelligence and Control, Deep Packet Inspection Scanning, Visualization,Deployment, Management, as well as WAN Acceleration or the distributed enterprise.

The plat orm allows IT to transition to an advanced security plat orm that cansecure and control against todays constantly evolving threats and application-related issues.

Network Optimization by SonicWALL

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WANAcceleration

ApplicationIntelligenceand Control

Network Optimization

Increase threat preventionwith DPI scanning

Lowers deployment costsand TCO

Identify network inefficiencies

Reduce the amount of data sent between offices

Block undesirableapplications

Bandwidth prioritize businesscritical applications


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SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Appliance Series

The SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series signi cantlyenhances WAN application per ormance and improves the end userexperience or distributed enterprises and small- to medium-sizedorganizations with remote and branch o ces. A ter initial le trans er,the WXA Series dramatically reduces all subsequent tra c bytransmitting only new or changed data across the network.

The SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series is comprised o the WXA 500 Live CD, WXA 2000 and WXA 4000 hardware appliances, andWXA 5000 Virtual Appliance.

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Unlike standalone products, WXA is an integrated add-onto SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewalls, thus simpli ying

deployment, confguration, routing and management.


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SonicWALL Application Intelligence and Control

SonicWALL Application Intelligence and Control enabled on SonicWALL Next-GenerationFirewalls provide granular control and real-time visualization o applications to guaranteebandwidth prioritization and ensure maximum network security and productivity.

A tightly integrated eature o SonicWALL rewalls, it uses SonicWALL Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection toidenti y and control applications, regardless o port or protocol. With a continuously expanding signature databaserecognizing thousands o applications and millions o malware threats, it can maintain granular control overapplications, prioritize or throttle bandwidth and deny web site access.

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When deployed in conjunction with WAN Acceleration, it

enables the unique combined beneft o both prioritizing application tra c and minimizing tra c between sites.


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Conclusion

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SonicWALL Network Optimization enables your enterprise totransition to an advanced, consolidated security plat orm.

By integrating Next-Generation Firewall, Deep PacketInspection, Application Intelligence and Control and WANAcceleration, SonicWALL ofers a uniquely efective andcomprehensive approach to securing, controlling and

ultimately optimizing your network.


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