Introduction to Dell SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Matt Dieckman/Scott

Introduction to Dell SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Matt Dieckman/Scott Grebe Product Line Manager

What Does WAN Acceleration Do? WAN Acceleration technology helps to Improve performance of business applications Optimize response times for critical applications Reduce bandwidth consumption Reduce associated bandwidth costs makes the network appear faster! 2 Confidential SonicWALL

The Dell SonicWALL Approach Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization Identify Categorize Control By Application - Not by Port & Protocol By User/Group -Not by IP By Content Inspection -Not by Filename By Application By Application Category By Destination By Content By User/Group Prioritize Apps by Policy Manage Apps by Policy Block Apps by Policy Detect and Block Malware Detect & Prevent Intrusion Attempts Users/Groups Policy Application Chaos Critical Apps So many on Port 80 Massively Scalable Next-Generation Security Platform Acceptable Apps Prioritized Bandwidth Managed Bandwidth Egress Ingress High Performance Multi- Core Re- Assembly Free DPI Unacceptable Apps Blocked Traffic Shaping – allow “Good Traffic” Malware Blocked Cloud- Based Extra-Firewall Intelligence Visualize & Manage Policy Visualization 10 Confidential Dell SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall SonicWALL Ensure “Good Traffic” composition with Application Intelligence and Control Block unwanted traffic Utilize bandwidth effectively Dell SonicWALL WXA Solution Traffic Acceleration – accelerate the traffic HTTP web caching Accelerate the “Good” traffic between offices – Traffic de-duplication – Windows File Share caching – Protocol optimization – Compression 3 Confidential SonicWALL

Traffic Shaping – Get “Good” Traffic WAN Acceleration Step 1 Bandwidth manage and control applications Dell SonicWALL Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization 4,100 Application signatures Identify Categorize Control Identify Applications By Application - Not by Port & Protocol By User/Group -Not by IP By Content Inspection -Not by Filename – Prioritize important traffic – Block or restrict unimportant traffic By Application By Application Category By Destination By Content By User/Group Users/Groups Prioritize Apps by Policy Manage Apps by Policy Block Apps by Policy Detect and Block Malware Detect & Prevent Intrusion Attempts Policy Application Chaos Critical Apps So many on Port 80 Massively Scalable Next-Generation Security Platform Acceptable Apps Prioritized Bandwidth Managed Bandwidth Egress Ingress High Performance Multi-Core Re-Assembly Free DPI Unacceptable Apps Blocked Malware Blocked Cloud-Based Extra-Firewall Intelligence Visualize & Manage Policy Goal: Visualization “Allow Good Traffic” at the gateway with Application Intelligence and Control 10 4 Confidential Confidential SonicWALL SonicWALL

“Good Traffic” Acceleration WAN Acceleration Step 2 Extremely effective for office-tooffice: Email, PowerPoint, Excel spreadsheets, Word docs, PDFs Web apps, collaboration sites Files between 20Kb-100’s of MB Small localized changes Also for Internet-based content: Web content, videos, etc, Benefits (for “Good Traffic”) 5 Eliminate redundant traffic Confidential Increase responsiveness Improve user experience SonicWALL

Dell SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Overview The Dell SonicWALL WXA Series

Dell SonicWALL WXA Series WXA 500 software WXA 6000 software WXA 2000 WXA 4000 WXA 5000 7 Confidential SonicWALL

What Applications Can be Accelerated? Internal web applications FTP transfers Windows File Sharing resources SharePoint Database apps Backup and Recovery (client-to-appliance CDP) Database replication and more 8 8 Confidential SonicWALL

Internet Content That Can be Cached YouTube videos Corporate videos Web sites Other web-based content 9 Confidential SonicWALL

What Cannot be Accelerated? Encrypted traffic – SSL, IPSec Compressed traffic – Gzip, RAR, 7-zip, bzip – Video, Audio Virtual Desktop solutions – RDP, Citrix Non-repeating traffic – Single file in one direction sent once – Single web page access 10 What does not repeat can not be cached and accelerated! Confidential SonicWALL

Dell SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Overview The Benefits of WAN Acceleration

Demonstrating and Quantifying the Benefits of WAN Acceleration Visualizing the benefits of using WAN Acceleration 12 Confidential SonicWALL

Technical and Feature Specs Feature WXA 500 Software WXA 2000 WXA 4000 WXA 5000 Virtual Appl. WXA 6000 Software Minimum SonicOS Version SonicOS 5.8.1.11 SonicOS 5.8.1.11 SonicOS 5.8.1.11 SonicOS 5.8.1.11 SonicOS 5.8.1.14 Platform Software Hardware Hardware Virtual Appliance Software 20 120 240 360 2,000 Maximum WAN Acceleration Connections 100 600 1,200 1,800 10,000 Byte Caching Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Web (HTTP) Caching Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes TCP Acceleration Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Compression Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes CIFS/SMB Acceleration Yes2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Signed SMB Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes WXAC Client Yes3 Yes3 Yes3 Yes3 Yes3 Visualization TCP/WFS/Cache TCP/WFS/Cache TCP/WFS/Cache TCP/WFS/Cache TCP/WFS/Cache Recommended Concurrent Users1 aximum users may vary and will depend on the number of connections generated per user. SonicWALL determines the recommended users based on 5 connections per user. FS/SMB acceleration is available only when the Live CD image is installed on the provided hardware equires SonicOS 5.9. 13 Confidential SonicWALL

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