What is the WireJet appliance series?

What are the benefits of deploying WireJet?

Does WireJet require any special client/server software or configuration?

Does WireJet require many network topology changes?

Why does it still take so long for Internet pages to download, even when I have a broadband connection such as DSL and cable modem?

What kinds of technologies are embedded in WireJet?

Why is it critical to speed up responding time?

What is WireJet's real-time compression?

What is WireJet's intelligent image adaptation technology?

What is WireJet's Web HTTP/TCP multiplexing technology?

How many WireJet appliances do I need?

Where do I deploy a WireJet appliance?

How do you manage WireJet?

Do end users benefit from WireJet if they already have a broadband connection like DSL, ISDN, or cable modem?

Is WireJet a caching device?

Is WireJet like content distribution networks (CDN's)?

Is WireJet a server load balancing device?

Does WireJet work with caching and CDN's?

Does WireJet work with server load balancers?

The WireJet series is a family of web application optimization and delivery acceleration appliances. Installed alongside existing network equipment, WireJet optimizes all resources required for web content generation and delivery, increasing network and server capacity, and providing significant cost savings, offering the best return of investment (ROI).

The WireJet family accelerates web-based applications, resulting in increased employee productivity, enhanced customer retention, and increased online revenues with few network infrastructure changes. Implemented with a broad suite of optimization techniques, WireJet enables service providers to optimize performance, improve access to critical information, maximize existing investment and achieve significant returns by accelerating the performance of web-applications up to 10X.

No. A truly transparent and automatic solution, WireJet requires no additional software or configuration changes on either client or server sides.

WireJet requires little modification to the existing network topology; it is quick and easy to install and can be up and functioning within one hour!

There are three main factors that contribute to the total time necessary to download a page:

• First mile - content generation
  The amount of time it takes for a web server to generate the requested page.
   

• Middle mile - long-haul delivery
  The amount of time it takes for the requested page to travel from the site through the Internet to the requesting user's ISP.
   

• Last mile - transmission
  The  the amount of time it takes for the requested page to travel from the ISP through the user's Internet connection (dial-up modem, ISDN, cable, DSL), to reach the user's terminal device.

WireJet is equipped with a suite of optimization tools that speeds up the entire download time, from dynamic page generation, to last mile transmission. WireJet's unique acceleration benefits are enabled by the following technologies:

• Transmission Overhead Reduction

• Real-Time Compression

• Intelligent Image Adaptation

• TCP/HTTP Multiplexing

• Dynamic Caching

Speeding up the response time will positively enhance a user's online experience, increasing the user's satisfaction. Statistically, after waiting 12 seconds for a page to load, 80% of users will abandon that page. To retain users, service providers must deliver a faster online experience - transmitting and displaying pages to users rapidly. By doubling the speed of the user experience, sites can see an 80% increase in page views. With WireJet, sites can accelerate content delivery from 200-1000%.

Reducing page size is key to accelerating download times. WireJet scans fetched content, reduces unnecessary content, and applies text-based compression to it all in real-time.

WireJet's intelligent image adaptation technology automatically reduces image file sizes while optimizing image quality, resulting in faster image download times, faster page renders, and more efficient bandwidth utilization. WireJet's intelligent image adaptation technology balances between image size and quality. The image maintains rich visual detail with a significantly reduced file size. 

WireJet's web HTTP/TCP multiplexing technology manages the network connections/sessions between client browsers and web/application servers by maintaining persistent TCP connections and multiplexing HTTP requests. This allows the web and application servers to focus solely on content generation, resulting in a significant improvement in web server capacity. Reducing unneeded client-server round trips and the associated delays, achieving the optimal application response time to all users, providing the fastest possible user experience.

This depends on several factors, the site's average bandwidth utilization, peak loads, and redundancy requirements. There are 3 models in the WireJet family:

• WireJet 205 supports 5,000 concurrent TCP sessions.

• WireJet 2100 supports 10,000 concurrent TCP sessions.

• WireJet 2300 supports 30,000 concurrent TCP sessions.

A WireGATE engineer evaluates your network topology and determines the best WireJet model and the quantity required to meet your needs.

WireJet can be installed at any location. However it is best located at the point of presence (POP) of ISP, or between the load balancer and web servers at the web site.

WireJet is easily configured and managed via command line interface (CLI) and a web base graphical interface.

Having faster access to the Internet is always better. However, this last mile represents only one part of the whole content delivery cycle. WireJet facilitates the entire content delivery journey, from the dynamic content generation all the way down to the last mile acceleration. Faster last mile accessing brings more traffic to destination sites, which in turn need WireJet to accelerate content generation and reduce bandwidth consumption. WireJet transparently accelerates the user experience regardless of the underneath accessing technology.

WireJet has caching features, but its ability goes far beyond pure traditional caching. A traditional cache server stores frequently requested static data but cannot provide any speed advantage for dynamic content, it does not speed the user experience through the last mile. WireJet intelligently caches dynamic data with its content awareness scheme, improving the user experience with faster Web site response times.

No. Content Distribution Networks (CDN's) deploy cache equipment in multiple locations throughout the Internet so cached static data may be physically closer to end users, shortening the long-haul transmission time. Like other cache products, CDN's cannot provide any speed advantage for dynamic content and do not speed the user experience through the last mile.

No. Server load balancers are content switches designed to simply store and forward requests to the appropriate web server. Server load balancers help sites take advantage of available web server horsepower to speed up content generation, but do not intelligently cache and accelerate content to end users.

Yes, WireJet is complementary to both of these technologies. While caching and CDN's provide a benefit in page generation and long-haul transfer of static content, WireJet can accelerate static and dynamic content all the way from server side, down to modem and broadband users. WireJet is an excellent stand-alone acceleration solution that can also work in conjunction with CDN's and caching.

Yes, WireJet can be deployed between a server load balancer and web servers or in front of a server load balancer, depending on a site's network architecture. WireJet itself also employs advanced load balancing features over HTTP protocol.