WAN accelerator technology from Fujitsu double n/w speed

WAN accelerator technology developed by Fujitsu Laboratories can double the transmission speeds on WAN n/ws. Fujitsu has developed new acceleration technology on software and tests were conducted with the National Institute of Informatics, which have conformed doubling of the transmission speeds of previous WAN acceleration technology when using mobile devices in Japan to access cloud services abroad. The previous technology uses identical accelerator hardware at both endpoints of the WAN without having the capability to accommodate for the differing characteristics of the network. Whereas the technology from Fujitsu features accelerator is distributed throughout WAN to automatically select the communication protocols best suited to the network characteristics between accelerators. Along with addressing the increasing demand for network bandwidth, new technology from Fujitsu when applied to network functions virtualization (NFV) enables the provision of fine-grained network services that are coordinated with a variety of network functions, such as firewalls and load balancers, says Fujitsu. Below is the background this technology presented by Fujitsu in its release: Many communications applications today have standardized on TCP, the Transport Control Protocol. But TCP communications over some wide-area networks, such as international networks, may encounter barri...