Technology Overview

Certeon’s aCelera includes best of breed technology to provide optimization and acceleration for all essential business applications with the most flexible and scalable platform available today. The aCelera solution scales to support the entire enterprise deployment, whether the initiative is to centralize the infrastructure, consolidate and adopt virtualization, enable mobile users or support business continuity through data replication. The Certeon aCelera solution supports all the deployment scenarios and the widest range of network topologies.

Forwarding Plane

The aCelera uses a proprietary forwarding plane that allows it to statefully track hundreds’ of thousands of flows while having the minimal CPU impact. The forwarding plane also allows for the most flexible deployment and support of network topologies and including WCCP, VRRP, PBR and static routing.

High Performance Proxy

The aCelera’s proxy allows flows to be locally terminated so that clients and servers receive LAN like performance. The proxy optimizes connections across the WAN providing TCP optimization and multiple network compatibility options including correct addressing and transparent addressing. At the highest end, the proxy is able to handle 50,000 optimized connections with one single virtual appliance instance.

Compressor

The compressor provides an ideal balance between data reduction and maximized throughput. It leverages the Application Acceleration Blueprints to deliver Content Aware De-duplication, separating the application encapsulation from the payload to ensure no long-term performance degradation.

Application Acceleration Blueprints

The Application Acceleration Blueprints are able to optimize the application protocol across the WAN and mitigate latency issues by responding to the client and servers locally and utilizing techniques like pipelining, pre-fetching and combining individual requests.

Designed for Virtualization

The aCelera solution was designed specifically to operate in a virtual environment. Here I/O access is slower and restricted when compared to running on native hardware so design optimizations were made such as bulk reading and writing for disk to get the best performance; performance optimizations that other vendors that port their code from their standard hardware appliances will not achieve. aCelera is also the only solution that is designed to be hypervisor agnostic and supports the industry’s three leading hypervisor platforms.

Cross Platform Support

All products in the aCelera WAN optimization family are built using the same code base. This means irrespective of the operating system all features are simultaneously released across the board.