Sprint launches Sprint Secure WAN Acceleration service

US telco Sprint Nextel has announced the availability of Sprint Secure Wide Area Network (WAN) Acceleration, a service that reportedly provides application acceleration and file access to remote offices for business-critical traffic.

According to the company, this service enables enterprises and organizations better control over WAN traffic, so that they can have business-critical applications accelerated, malicious or unwanted traffic stopped and unimportant traffic managed or mitigated.

Sprint Secure WAN Acceleration is particularly beneficial for large, distributed organizations seeking to maximize resources, reduce costs and more efficiently use their transport to support business-critical needs and real-time applications, said Sprint. Additionally, it can be paired with Sprint's Multiprotocol Label Switching Virtual Private Network ( MPLSVPN) solution, as an additional tool to help ensure WAN efficiency.

Using appliances from Blue Coat Systems, a vendor of  WAN optimization and secure web gateway solutions - as the foundation, Sprint Secure WAN Acceleration helps businesses optimize and manage traffic across WAN. Through a combination of application visibility, management and technologies, it enhances application and bandwidth.

Blue Coat secures web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise.

Dan Dooley, president of wireline at Sprint, said: As technology continues to evolve and as businesses grow and look beyond basic connectivity services, Sprint is helping them combine access services with security and application acceleration technology. Optimizing a network by accelerating critical applications can have a profound impact on a business's ability to meet its goals and objectives and gain needed efficiencies.

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