Kordia’s Application Assurance (A-A) capability, provided as part of our OnKor service, has hit a sweet spot with customers looking to gain some visibility of what is going on inside their WAN environment.
This is not surprising given research shows that 87% of CIOs did now know what applications were running over their WAN.
OnKor Application Assurance is a cloud based service available to all our OnKor customers but there are also a number of CPE based solutions out there. So how do these fit with our network based solution?
Have a read of this short blog from Tech Republic. It talks about WAN acceleration, gives a good overview and provides a basis to compare with our Application Assurance capability.
WAN acceleration can sit side-by-side with OnKor Application Assurance, as one down side of WAN acceleration is that it does not speed up connection or delay sensitive applications such as VC, VoIP or collaboration.
A-A can improve these services by putting them into a higher priority queue and also by prioritising each application. A-A also provides good reporting to provide the CIO with visibility of what is happening over the WAN.
Another advantage of A-A is that there is no capital outlay required, no onsite boxes to fail, no software licenses, no reliance or cost associated with expert resources to run and maintain the service.
A-A is provided by Kordia in the cloud so there is no requirement for onsite visits if something goes wrong. Plus, as a network or cloud based service, there is no need to replace or upgrade the CPE every three or so years.
A-A is therefore a solution that can be implemented cost-effectively compared to a CPE based WAN Acceleration solution – but cannot provide all the WAN caching advantages described below.
A-A can therefore be a cost effective alternative to WAN Acceleration or it can sit alongside; for example, reducing the number of sites where WAN Acceleration is used and also solving the delay sensitive application issues and reporting shortfalls of the CPE solution.
-- Murray Goodman, Business Manager at Kordia
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