Another Cross-over Point from WAN Optimization into the Proxy Space

From Network World:Exinda Networks’ stylish code raise tackles whatever of the WAN improvement implications of a thorny IT direction issue: the ingest of third-party nameless browsing services that line DNS queries finished a agent server. Anonymous proxies earmark modify users to road Web sites closed by their companies, surf the Web anonymously, or hide their tracks while Web browsing. The newborn edition of Exinda’s WAN improvement software, EXOS 5.3, crapper detect the ingest of nameless proxies and person Web reciprocation to the rules and restrictions organizations hit ordered up. With the newborn software, Exinda crapper expose, report and administer QoS policies to reciprocation using nameless proxies. Its application arrangement engine categorizes meshwork reciprocation and responds supported on a company’s planned policies â€" by interference the reciprocation or limiting its bandwidth usage, for instance. It crapper also identify modify users who are not conforming to meshwork practice policies. If someone were to essay to admittance an Internet broadcasting site during business hours, for instance, Exinda would right attribute the reciprocation and administer the planned rules and policies, says Ed Ryan, evilness president of products at Exinda. “If you’re using nameless proxies to create reciprocation that’s ordinarily shaped, we’ll ease undergo what it is and right attribute it. All the connatural policies and rules that would hit practical to that reciprocation if you’d accessed it directly ease apply.” To meet on crowning of newborn nameless agent sites, the code maintains a itemize of URLs and sites to limit or country admittance to. “Version 5.3 allows you to wager the real, genuine traffic. We provide continuous spotting of nameless agent sites finished regular updates. New ones are reaching on everyday,” Ryan says. It’s every most visibility, he says. “Visibility comes first. You can’t attain intelligent decisions most how shape and rank and guardian the reciprocation unless you undergo what the reciprocation is. You can’t attain beatific decisions to accelerate and behave reciprocation unless you undergo what it is.” Also newborn in the edition 5.3 code raise are a sort of individual programme and plan tweaks fashioned to attain chronicle easier for administrators. Exinda redesigned its support screens, for instance, simplified its logon pages and redesigned whatever of its wizards. In addition, Exinda extended scalability features -- including multithreading and multi-queuing enhancements -- it developed late last year for its high-end 8760 product to the rest of its appliances that ingest multicore processors. EXOS 5.3 entireness on every existing Exinda appliances and is free to Exinda customers with maintenance subscriptions.