Optimizing Networks and Remote Access amid Asia's Bullish Economy and Bandwidth Dearth

WAN Optimization Market to Grow Strongly at a CAGR of 22.5 Percent
SINGAPORE--(Business Wire)--
Multinationals continue to invest heavily in Asia-Pacific leading
to a growing number of remote offices, mobile workforce, and highly
empowered regional operations that demand the same level of
connectivity and speed as their head office counterparts. Similarly,
Asian businesses have grown in scale to compete on the world stage.

This business landscape raises the challenge for CIOs and IT
managers to ensure LAN-like application access and performance over
WAN (wide area networks). More organisations today are beginning to
realise the cost advantages of deploying WAN optimization tools to
address issues such as limited bandwidth and inefficiencies in
application performance.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan
(http://www.networksecurity.frost.com), Asia Pacific WAN Optimization
Controller Market, finds that the market - covering 14 Asia-Pacific
countries - earned revenues of US$204 million in 2007 and estimates
this to reach US$844.7 million by end-2014, at a CAGR (compound annual
growth rate) of 22.5 percent (2007-2014).

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"WAN optimization appliances address the three major problems
associated with remote application performance - high latency,
'chatty' protocols and low bandwidth availability. Solving these
critical issues increases end-user application experience, resulting
in higher employee productivity and retention," says Frost & Sullivan
industry manager Arun Chandrasekaran.

Increasing enterprise mobility also poses significant challenges
for organisations in terms of security and application access,
especially in most ASEAN countries and emerging markets such as India
where network congestion is not uncommon and high(er) bandwidth comes
at a high cost.

Chandrasekaran says that WAN optimization offers substantial
savings on operational expenditure by optimizing bandwidth usage and
speeding-up application access. "With rising budgetary pressures, more
organisations are realising the advantage of deploying these
appliances over adding more bandwidth.

"While such issues with bandwidth shortage and cost are gradually
being resolved, adding bandwidth in itself will not solve the problem
entirely since it still does not address the inefficiencies that exist
in application transmission," he adds.

WAN optimization solutions are also key components of disaster
recovery strategy. According to Chandrasekaran, the ability of these
appliances to accelerate data centre-to-data centre replication,
backups and recovery means that the disaster recovery backup sites are
constantly receiving instantaneous sets of data with minimal lag from
the primary site.

Despite these upsides, awareness of this technology and its
capabilities remain low. The apparent lack of case studies measuring
ROI (return on investments) has also been minimal, given the relative
early stage of the market.

Deployments have so far leaned towards more advanced markets, with
Australia and Japan alone accounting for nearly half of the total
Asia-Pac revenues in 2007. By industry, the BFSI (banking, financial
services and insurance), service provider and manufacturing sectors
were the biggest adopters of WAN optimization.

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Frost & Sullivan
Sarah Lourdes, +603-6207-1030
Corporate Communications - Asia Pacific
sarah.lourdes@frost.com

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