Company with HQ in France helps businesses worldwide to manage, optimize and accellerate their networks to guarantee the application performance anywhere, anytime

March 24, 2009

Ipanema Technologies is a worldwide leader in application traffic management systems for wide area networks.

The WAN is more and more critical to the business of modern enterprises. To achieve their goal of increased productivity, enterprises are implementing fundamental IT transformations that dramatically increase the pressure on the network.

By displacing local branch communications to the WAN, datacenter consolidation is increasing competition among applications flows over the network; the virtualization of desktop drives new application delivery models that fully rely on the WAN; IP Telephony and other collaborative applications introduce new time sensitive and distributed communications over the network; Web 2.0, web applications, SOA, SaaS, Video streaming and conferencing are dramatically increasing the WAN’s resources requirements; finally, globalization breed new mobile usages based on the necessity to deliver applications to the global workforce. Only intelligent networks can enable those business services to run anytime, anywhere and any way.

Ipanema Technologies, headquartered in France and the US, develops next-generation solutions for WAN application traffic management and WAN Optimization which drastically improve the quality of user experience.  Ipanema’s Autonomic Networking System brings intelligence to the network, enabling enterprises to align the network with their business objectives dynamically. The Ipanema Autonomic Networking System is designed to manage up to very large enterprise WANs. It empowers enterprises, telecom operators and network service providers to go Beyond the Network TM. With Ipanema’s Autonomic Networking System, Enterprises can create repeatable and industrialized application-SLA basedservices that bring the best benefits with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): intelligent WAN visibility, intelligent WAN Optimization, and intelligent WAN Acceleration. Ipanema is used extensively by many large telecom operators as well as by large multinationals across all market segments, including banking and finance, public sector, energy, pharmaceuticals, automotive, IT and so on.  All benefit from Ipanema’s Application Performance Guarantee.

Ipanema brings intelligence to the network through three key feature sets:

Unlike any other solution on the market,  these three feature sets are delivered through a system architecture: the Autonomic Networking System or Ipanema System. The multiple components of the ipanema System work together to automatically, globally and dynamically manage the traffic. The high level of automation and integration of the Ipanema System empowers a new breed of high-level traffic management features: Network Application Governance functions that directly connect with ITIL of network governance processes.

For customers who prefer to get the benefit of Ipanema features through their service providers, Ipanema is providing a dedication Managed Service Framework on which high value and ubiquitous services are being built.

The Ipanema Autonomic Networking System or Ipanema System is at the heart of Ipanema’s ability to connect the network’s functioning with the goals of the business. With the Ipanema System, WAN application traffic management operations are global and automated.

Enterprise networks face the challenge of increasing complexity. For the largest of them: 10,000s of users, 1,000s of sites, 100s of applications… Traffic patterns are constantly twisted by new architectures (datacenter consolidation, desktop virtualization…), new applications (peer-to-peer, voice…) and even time zones. Non-critical traffics increases exponentially, threatening business applications efficiency and putting network architecture and budget under pressure…

On the other hand, management principles and tools that network teams use (so-called “Policy-based management”) belongs to the age of stone: partial information collected on local devices (routers, probes…) are manually processed by overwhelmed engineers that must deduce approximate local policies to be set-up in such devices… This cumbersome process is no more able to match the challenge of speed and complexity that are facing agile and global enterprises.

It is time for a new, high level WAN application traffic management concept that delegate to processors what they can do best: exchange information and compute fast and right, while preserving human intelligence for the noble task to set-up the mission (objectives) and control its achievement (reporting, SLAs).

It is time for Autonomic Networking Systems, a fundamental step to manage the ever growing complexity of enterprises’ network and application environments.

An Autonomic Networking System is an emerging research focus for many public and private laboratories across the world. It has been created following the principles of Autonomic Computing introduced by IBM in 2001.

Ipanema’s WAN Optimization solution is one of the first commercial implementations of the concept of Autonomic Networking System.

WAN Optimization solutions are now recognized as fundamental components of a modern WAN to support the performance of business critical applications. All WAN Optimization solutions provide WAN Acceleration to mitigate the impact of constrained network resources. Most include some Visibility to locally report on the behavior of their mechanisms and on their view of the links usage. Lately, some WAN optimization vendors have partnered with WAN application traffic management specialists to provide better Visibility, including Visibility on user experience.

But combining a WAN Optimization solution with an external Application Performance Management solution is not providing full answers to key Enterprises issues including:

  • The need to report on the global network usage and performance throughout the organization
  • The need to troubleshot application performance through real-time global to local data drilldown
  • The need to setup performance SLAs at the application level
  • The need to isolate the contribution to the performance of individual components of the application delivery chain (WAN, optimized WAN, client, servers …)
  • The need to clearly understand the impact of WAN Optimization over the end-user quality experience.

The Ipanema System is today used as a strategic tool by Enterprises as a complete solution to accelerate and guarantee the end user experience and to provide a full answer to their Application performance guarantee needs over their optimized WAN.

The Ipanema System, has been designed from the very beginning for global WAN Optimization deployments. It provides an unprecedented scalability, enabling it to deliver WAN optimization to thousands of sites. Ipanema’s objective based management model makes WAN Optimization management workload nearly independent from the number of sites and requires much less effort than do traditional approaches. The inherent complexity of large and meshed networks is fully handled by the system architecture. Finally, the system supports innovative deployment options allowing the deployment of devices in a progressive fashion and only in provably required locations.

Intelligent WAN Acceleration brings response time down so that it enables the appropriate quality of experience that users expect. It tightly combines with Ipanema Optimization’s ability to guarantee the performance of critical applications under the toughest conditions.

A combination of redundancy elimination, TCP acceleration and application acceleration mechanisms are dynamically applied under the control of Ipanema’s sophisticated global, dynamic optimization features.

Following the principles of Autonomic Networking Systems, the mechanisms are triggered dynamically depending on the nature of the applications. The system automatically adapts these parameters in real-time based on a dynamic, global analysis of the traffic mix, user behavior and continuous tracking of WAN resource availability.

Ipanema is a global company established in all continents with a global support and is praised for its stellar performance.

Ipanema is today empowering 75% of the available intelligent network services worldwide. This success has been possible through continuous innovation following the principles of Autonomic Networking. This new discipline is a quantum leap in networking technology where the network becomes intelligent enough to deliver application performance guarantee by adapting to the varying user demand and to changes in its environment. Autonomic Networking Systems have emerged in the past few years on the ground of IBM’s Autonomic Computing. It is today embraced by the networking research community and by visionary networking technology vendors. Ipanema develops next-generation solutions for WAN application traffic management and WAN Optimization which bring intelligence to the network to drastically improve the quality of user experience and align the network with core business objectives. Ipanema today powers intelligent networks of global leaders in all industry sectors. All Ipanema customers have deployed the solution as a strategic tool to support the delivery of critical business applications to their global workforce. Ipanema goes beyond solving local performance issues like other point products on the market. When selecting Ipanema, our customers make the choice of building a full layer of intelligence on top of their WAN globally. Ipanema Technologies assures a global presence from: Asia Pac, BeNeLux, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States

Services

Ipanema Technologies
28, rue de la Redoute
92260 Fontenay-aux-Roses
FRANCE
Phone: +33 1 55 52 15 00
Fax: +33 1 55 52 15 01
Email : Contact page
Web : http://www.ipanematech.com

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