Expand Networks, http://www..expand.com, the leader in optimising WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualisation, will be demonstrating its extended suite of end-to-end accelerators for the first time in Europe at IP Expo, revealing how it’s virtual and mobile accelerators are re-defining the rules of WAN Optimisation across modern network environments.

Expand Networks will showcase its full range of WAN Optimisation capabilities across virtualised infrastructures, VDI deployments, mobile enterprises and satellite environments at IP Expo. Expand will replicate a typical virtualized environment; simulating a Virtual Accelerator at the datacenter demonstrating the industry’s leading High Availability with VMware’s VSphere4 capability, as well as a branch office accelerator and a Mobile Accelerator client at the desktop.

Adam Davison, VP Corporate Sales and Marketing at Expand Networks comments, “WAN Optimisation has evolved from a tactical luxury to a strategic imperative as organizations realise the multiple business benefits the technology can provide. As companies deploy advanced technologies, changing WAN traffic flows and application behavior, Expand Networks latest technology innovations are radically advancing the mobility, scalability, affordability and unique collaborative benefit of WAN optimisation in the virtualised environments.”

Recently launched, Expand Networks’ Mobile Accelerator Client (MACC), with unique HIVE technology, introduces a number of technology and economic firsts. Alongside the Virtual Accelerator (VACC), Expand Networks will reveal how its latest intelligent location detection technology coupled with flexible network deployment enables organisations to make consolidation and mobility work in tandem to deliver business efficiency and add to the bottom line.

Leaders, the largest independent letting specialist of residential properties in the UK , recently chose Expand to enable a VDI project. Noel Cresswell, IT director at Leaders, says, “Expand has worked wonders for the VDI project and given us a very stable network. Within two minutes of going live, the performance of all applications was significantly quicker, improving our remote users’ productivity and customer service levels. The Expand technology has given us the ability to deliver VDI with the same bandwidth deployment without increasing costs.”

Davison concludes, “Enterprises engage in strategic centralisation projects such as datacenter virtualization or VDI in order to seek IT efficiencies and reduce IT costs, however the interactive nature of the underlying protocols means VDI architectures cannot be optimised by traditional acceleration techniques. Delivering the industry’s widest protocol coverage with a completely hardware agnostic solution, only Expand Networks’ integrated WAN Optimisation technology can optimise these protocols and truly support VDI deployments to maximise user productivity and investments in the infrastructure.”