"Global enterprises rely on Microsoft® SharePoint® Services and Microsoft® Office™ and we are committed to helping these organizations more easily adopt and benefit from the increased productivity that these applications bring. Certeon's acceleration solutions uniquely
understand these
applications to maximize their inherent scalability
and performance without disrupting the customer experience, or exposing mission-critical data."
Charles Ofori, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft IT
In recent years, Microsoft Office System has evolved from a series of products to a comprehensive suite of applications, servers, services, and solutions. When Microsoft Office System is accessed across a WAN, the network's inherent slow throughput, impacts the performance and productivity of remote office workers - document browsing is sluggish and file upload and downloads can become unbearably slow. That's where Certeon comes in.
S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances
Certeon's S-Series are network appliances with Office System application intelligence that enables them to accelerate the document flow between Microsoft Office System applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InfoPath, and Publisher and SharePoint server farms. The S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances accomplish this by minimizing network traffic, decreasing packet turnaround times, and reducing application chattiness. The result is a breakthrough in response time and scalability performance levels.
The S-Series has embedded Application Acceleration Blueprints that enable high acceleration through an understanding of underlying protocols, data object differences, and Microsoft Office System communications. With a deep understanding of Office application communication protocols and data formats, Certeon's S-Series appliances accelerate these applications while reducing unnecessary WAN traffic. This means the branch office workers who drive your business will experience a significant improvement in application response and file access times.
Certeon's S-Series accelerates the full range of protocols and file formats employed by the 2007 Microsoft Office System, including support for the new OpenXML file formats. This new format makes existing packet- and session-based acceleration solutions ineffective in speeding the transmission of Office OpenXML documents over the WAN. Certeon's S-Series application acceleration appliances have a deep understanding of application objects, protocols, and network semantics, including FrontPage Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) and Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), as well as their underlying TCP connections. This knowledge, combined with IP-based acceleration tokens, is used to pre-fetch data objects before they are requested, compare object differences to determine changes in content, and transmit only data that has changed in a single pass. The result is a dramatic reduction in the data that needs to be sent over a WAN and turbocharged acceleration for Office 2007 applications.
Certeon is a founding member of the OpenXML Developer's Forum. Click here to learn more about the OpenXML industry standard.
Certeon accelerates all Microsoft Office System applications securely; whether access is via HTTP or HTTPS (SSL), there is no difference in performance. Certeon's Secure Acceleration Technology doesn't require additional certificate or key management and never compromises security.
The result of using Certeon's S-Series in your network is a dramatic reduction in the data that needs to be sent over a WAN and turbocharged acceleration for applications.
For more information on S-Series application acceleration performance gains, go to the Tolly Report.
The S-Series Blueprint for Microsoft Office will also accelerate remote access to Microsoft’s SMS family of systems management products and solutions. Reduce the response time in accessing SMS content over the WAN by more than 90% and accelerate your ability to manage your Microsoft environment.
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Download the 2007 Microsoft Office System and SharePoint Application Acceleration Blueprints data sheet as a PDF document. 
Download the Tolly Group Evaluates S-Series Capabilities Performance Report as a PDF document. documents require the Adobe Reader. Download the reader for free.
