- To deliver multi-folds performance boost for applications running across wide area networks -

HONG KONG, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- CPCNet Hong Kong Limited, a renowned communications and security solution partner in the Asia Pacific region and a wholly owned subsidiary of CITIC 1616 Holdings Limited (stock code: 1883), today announces a partnership with Riverbed Technology, the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage. Through the partnership, the companies will provide the first managed WAN optimization service - TrueCONNECT Accelerator - in the Greater China region.

"With the current economic situation, enterprises are looking for ways to cut costs while increasing performance through leveraging different applications running across their wide area networks," said Tak Ho, senior vice president of product development and management, CPCNet. "We anticipate significant numbers of enterprises of all sizes in Greater China will opt for managed WAN optimization services, as these help reduce total cost of ownership of their IT and business environments and at the same time enhance application performance and the efficiency of their staff."

"The need to access useful information anytime, anywhere puts tremendous strain on enterprises to support an increasing amount of data and an ever growing number of applications over their WANs. In the past, distributed processing servers supported with ample intranet bandwidth were needed for critical branch offices. Nowadays, however, companies seek to centralise their application servers to reduce total cost. This is difficult, as the performance of most applications degrade as the distance grows between branch offices and the data centre. WAN optimization solves this problem and has become a prerequisite for many enterprises," added Randy Schirman, vice president, service provider sales, Riverbed. "Many enterprise customers are now turning to managed services from service providers such as CPCNet to deliver their WAN optimization solutions."

Powered by Riverbed's award-winning WAN optimization solutions, TrueCONNECTTM Accelerator can optimize applications over WAN for file-sharing (CIFS, NFS), sending emails with attachments (MAPI, Lotus Notes), collaboration and surfing the net (HTTP), as well as databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL).

TrueCONNECT Accelerator can support thousands of users on one device. It can be easily adapted to TrueCONNECT Premium MPLS-based (Multi Protocol Label Switching) IP VPN platform, and works seamlessly with TrueCONNECT QoS, VoIP, video conferencing and other real-time traffic. Running on the resilient and reliable CPCNet's, TrueCONNECT platform with high stability and packet successful rate, TrueCONNECT Accelerator can greatly enhance user experience by ensuring fast and smooth running of numerous applications on one network. It reduces number of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) round-trips and delays, and hence makes better utilization of existing bandwidth to boost application performance, as well as running more applications. Application performances are dramatically improved, up to 100 times for any Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) applications over wide-area networks. Data can be replicated swiftly and securely over the WAN, which reduces replication times from hours to minutes.

As a managed service provided by CPCNet, TrueCONNECT Accelerator is cost- effective and easy to deploy with virtual plug-and-play installation. There is no need for costly upfront investment or capital expenditure, and deployment costs can be reduced by consolidating servers without compromising application performance. It can be deployed transparently - without any changes to applications, users, routers, or other IT infrastructure - and is applicable to a broad range of business-critical applications. Visualization is enhanced by integrating with CPCNet's Traffic Monitoring Service (TMS), with which centralized traffic analysis reports can be produced. With CPCNet's 24X7 monitoring, hotline and email support, customers are assured of having a comprehensive view of the WAN performance.

"With high flexibility and scalability, our managed WAN optimization service TrueCONNECT Accelerator can be easily upgraded and will be able to cater for enterprise growing business needs," added Ho.

SOURCE CPCNet Hong Kong Limited

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