Compass enhances Exchange with:
- Up to 2,500% Exchange acceleration over the WAN
- Works with Outlook caching enabled
- QoS to enable continuous replication capabilities
- Protocol acceleration to mitigate latency and fill the pipe
- Transparency to simplify infrastructure integration
The Compass approach to Exchange optimization is one where the best parts of Microsoft
functionality are used when possible. For example, starting with Outlook 2003, Microsoft
enabled a cache mode function that does a fantastic job at mitigating the performance
hit of MAPI over the WAN. The Compass solution recommends continued use of this
secure performance optimization, so only new traffic needs to traverse the WAN (and
Compass’ predictive algorithms can easily handle this first-pass traffic). On the
other hand, by disabling Exchange’s compression of MAPI traffic, allowing this to
be handled by the award winning Compass technology, the Exchange server resources
are immediately freed up, allowing better scalability and server response times.
Synchronization and exchange of data between Exchange servers is critical to reliability
and scalable operations. Using mostly SMTP protocols between Exchange servers, in
addition to compression, Compass is able to greatly reduce transfer times by use
of protocol (TCP) acceleration. Particularly when these Exchange servers are in
different datacenters, Compass’ QoS ensures that Exchange’s continuous replication
capabilities has the bandwidth it needs, without adversely impacting the performance
of other application sharing the WAN.
Combined with Microsoft Exchange, Expand’s Compass platform ensures that the communications
infrastructure is up to the business and technical challenges that face a distributed
workforce. By transparently optimizing Exchange traffic to the branch office and
between datacenters, IT organizations are able to reliably achieve both efficiency
and productivity, while supplying the business with anywhere and anytime access
to vital business communications.