AcceleNet Overview
Technology
Features and Specifications
Why AcceleNet?

Features

Applications Supported

  • High Performance Proxies: HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, MS Exchange, CIFS/SMB
  • TCP-level acceleration for other applications can be selectively enabled

Transport Optimization

  • Adjusts dynamically for speed and round-trip time
  • Remembers link characteristics for “fast start”
  • No per-network tuning

Formats Supported by Advanced Data Compression

  • MS-Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel
  • Shockwave Flash
  • Image Formats: JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, WMF, TGA, PPM
  • HTML and web text formats
  • Universal compression used for other formats

Installation and Upgrade

  • User-friendly installation
  • Silent client installation supported via enterprise deployment packages like Microsoft SMS
  • Client defaults configurable by system admin
  • Client upgrades and downgrades auto-generated, auto-downloaded in compressed format, and transparently applied

Deployment & Management

System Management

  • Browser-based Interface
  • SNMPv2 MIB
  • Blackbox recorder for detailed incident analysis
  • Detailed monitoring and control of active clients
  • Client configuration and binary updates via server-side browser interface

User Authentication

  • RADIUS (RFC 2865)
  • Remote RDBMS
  • Local file managed via Web Interface

Accounting and Statistics

  • RADIUS (RFC 2866)
  • Remote RDBMS

Security

  • Logon credentials securely transmitted
  • All TCP data encrypted
  • Encryption methods selectable; anti-tampering and replay prevention
  • No listening ports open on client

System Requirements

Client Operating Systems

  • Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME, 98

Client Hardware Requirements

  • Minimum: 750 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, 80 MB free disk space
  • Recommended: 1.5 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 1 GB free disk space

Server Operating Systems

  • Windows Server 2003
  • Microsoft Internet Information Systems (IIS) version 6 or higher
  • Microsoft ASP.NET version 2.0 Framework (included in installation package)
  • SQLite (included in installation package)

Server Hardware Requirements

  • Minimum: Dual Core 1.8 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB 7.2K RPM hard drive, Dual 1 Gigabit Ethernet NIC 

Capacity

  • Unlimited capacity with external or internal load balancer
  • 2000 concurrent users per high-capacity server (performance varies based on target application and usage patterns)
  • High availability
  • Rapid unattended recovery