ATLANTA, Oct. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthLink
Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: ELNK), a leading managed network, security
and cloud solutions provider, today announced the launch of
EarthLink's Application Performance Optimization™, a
family of software defined WAN services designed to provide
businesses with real-time analytics and visibility into how
applications use bandwidth, and the ability to adjust how they
consume resources and navigate their network. As IT organizations
roll out more bandwidth-hungry applications, EarthLink Application
Performance Optimization helps maximize performance of
mission-critical workloads at a great value without the expense of
additional bandwidth.
EarthLink Application Performance Optimization leverages
Ipanema, InfoVista's application performance guarantee technology,
for monitoring and control of WAN traffic and application
performance. EarthLink selected InfoVista, the leading provider of
network performance orchestration software solutions, as a key
partner because of Ipanema's strong capabilities to protect
business-critical application performance over other traffic and
its affordability, an important factor for large, multi-site
customers. Ipanema was positioned as a "Visionary" in Gartner's
2015 "Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization" for the fifth
consecutive year.
"IT leaders are adding new technologies and applications to
enhance the customer experience and employee productivity, but
these can require additional bandwidth for optimal performance. At
the same time, their IT budgets are shrinking," said Eric Hyman, vice president of network products,
EarthLink. "Adding EarthLink Application Performance Optimization
increases control with real-time, intelligent analytics and
management, so mission-critical applications run efficiently to
avoid costly network and bandwidth upgrades."
EarthLink Application Performance Optimization boosts
application performance across the network with two services:
- Application visibility and control™ for administrators
to monitor, troubleshoot, and set alarms and performance
benchmarks. Real-time dashboards display quality of service scores
per location for jitter, latency, and packet loss and provide
automatic system adjustments to preserve prioritization.
- Dynamic WAN path selection™ chooses the most expedient
path for each application, separating critical traffic and
dynamically rerouting it when the primary route is congested.
Like other EarthLink solutions, EarthLink Application
Performance Optimization is available via the myLink®
customer portal. Customizable dashboards deliver monitoring,
utilization, troubleshooting, alarming and Application Quality
Scores (AQS), an extension of the Mean Opinion Score (MOS), which
directly rates the application quality delivered over the
network.
"EarthLink Application Performance Optimization is the latest
addition to our portfolio for improving cloud, business application
and network performance," said Rick C.
Froehlich, executive vice president and chief commercial
officer, EarthLink. "We're helping companies to get more out of
their existing network investments to support today's business
demands, and to establish an SD-WAN foundation so they're prepared
for the future."
To remove the guesswork from network capacity planning and
offload tactical operations, customers can also engage EarthLink's
Professional Services team to holistically engineer their
application optimization plan. EarthLink specialists evaluate the
network, determine the ideal WAN architecture, identify which
workloads to move, what type of cloud environment to utilize
(public, private, hybrid) and which third-party provider is the
best choice, and help migrate workloads to the cloud.
For more information, visit:
http://www.earthlinkbusiness.com/data-services/application-performance-optimization.xea
About EarthLink
EarthLink (EarthLink Holdings Corp., NASDAQ: ELNK) provides
managed network, security and cloud solutions for multi-location
businesses. We help thousands of specialty retailers, restaurants,
financial institutions, healthcare providers, professional service
firms and local governments deliver a reliable and engaging
customer experience in their stores and branch offices. We do so by
building and managing MPLS WAN networks, by providing virtualized
infrastructure, security, hosted voice, secure WiFi and compliance
solutions, and by offering exceptional customer care. We operate a
nationwide network spanning more than 28,000 fiber route miles,
with 90 metro fiber rings and secure data centers that provide
ubiquitous data and voice IP service coverage. Our EarthLink
Carrier™ division sells facilities-based wholesale
telecommunications to other providers and our award-winning
Internet services connect hundreds of thousands of residential
customers across the U.S. For more, visit www.earthlink.com and
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