Sprint launches Secure WAN Acceleration service for businesses

Tue. October 14, 2008; Posted: 06:01 AM

Oct 14, 2008 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) -- S | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Sprint Nextel Corp (NYSE: S), a provider of wireless and wireline communications services, introduced its new Sprint Secure WAN Acceleration service on 13 October. Secure WAN Acceleration provides application acceleration and file access to remote offices and is an extension to Sprint's managed services portfolio. The service gives large enterprises and organisations control over Wide Area Network (WAN) traffic, enabling business-critical applications to be accelerated, malicious or unwanted traffic to be stopped and unimportant traffic to be managed or mitigated. It can also be paired with Sprint's Multiprotocol Label Switching Virtual Private Network (MPLS VPN) solution, as an additional tool to help ensure WAN efficiency. Sprint Secure WAN Acceleration uses appliances from Blue Coat Systems Inc (NASDAQ: BCSI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) as a foundation. It is claimed to enhance application performance and bandwidth availability by combining application visibility, management and tuning technologies, including bandwidth management, protocol optimisation, caching and compression. No pricing details were announced.

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