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Review: XRoads Networks
XRoads Networks, a private company headquartered in California, is a developer of network optimization appliances utilizing Unified Bandwidth Management (UBM) technology. The network optimization appliances from XRoads Network provides a secure environment for network traffic shaping, multi-WAN network load balancing, and VPN tunnel balancing.
XRoads Networks provides a host of products and solutions offerings. Two of their products are the EdgeXL™ Enterprise Bandwidth Manager and the Edge2WAN™ SMB Bandwidth Manager. Their solutions include Diverse Link Routing, Application Performance Management, Site2Site VPN Optimization, and Enterprise Security Suite, to name a few.
Getting into details about their MultiWAN load-balancing solutions. This happens to be one of the core components of the Edge platform from XRoads Network. It allows you to combine multiple WAN links which enables you to reach an impressive 99.999% uptime. This is talking 24×7 uptime for your network. Imagine what it will do for your business. There is no connectivity issues and end-users and customers are happy. To highlight some of the key features of their load balancing solution. You get
- Multi-homing and reliability (24×7 uptime)
- Broadband aggregation (combine multiple WAN links)
- Inbound server balancing (Improves response rates)
- Application routing (Determine routing of critical Vs non-critical applications)
You can read another great review about XRoads Network at NetworkWorld. Just highlighting their closing statement in their detailed review:
The 5500e is a flexible, good-quality WAN optimization tool that we recommend you look at closely.
The next time you are looking for products or solutions of this kind, do evaluate XRoads Networks.
Speed Linking: 13-Jan-08
Its time to share useful links for the day:
- Mashable has a story on the first complete set of software available for Google’s Android platform from a company called a la Mobile.
- TechCrunch is covering a story about the release of iGoogle for the iPhone.
- LifeHacker has a post on how to create your own hi-res wallpapers using a tool called PaperMaker.
- Want to win a Google Fridge? Read more about it at Dan’s Blog.
- John Chow has an interesting post on the “big gizmos” at CES 2008. Check out the size of those sub-woofers!!!
More later…
