Review: XRoads Networks
Posted on January 14, 2008
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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.
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unified bandwidth management is emerging there dont seem to be many companies in this field. another interesting unified bandwidth management technology is from http://www.xrio.com - worth checking out too.
Sounds fantastic.