Hope the Plus version will be competitive with Riverbed Steelhead Appliance, for example.
During my read, These are some of the technique used in Steelhead which I hope it will be implemented in Wanos as well:
Data streamlining:
Multilayer Data compression.
SDR (Scalable Data referencing) algorithm. SDR breaks up TCP data into unique data chunks, each chunk has a reference number, where when the same byte sequence occurs in future transmission, the reference number is only sent across the LAN instead of raw data chunks.
Files and data can be accelerated even when they are transferred using different protocols such: FTP, CIFS (shared files) … etc.
For example: MS Exchange uses MAPI protocol to encode file attachments, CDR de-code it before send it and see if there is any ready transferred reference regardless which transferring protocol was used.
Transport streamlining:
Connection pooling: This is useful in short-lived TCP connections. The product creates pools of idle TCP connection (for HTTP as example), where when a client tries to create a new connection to a previously visited target, it uses one from its pool, which, in turns, overcomes three-way TCP handshake.
Can enable something called HS-TCP (High-Speed TCP), and MX-TCP (Maximum TCP).
Application streamlining:
The product reduces the number of round trips over WAN for common actions (openin/editing remote shred files/folders), it supports most of intended protocols: CIFS, MAPI, HTTP … etc.