The Juniper Networks WX platforms provide distributed enterprises with a cost-effective solution for accelerating applications over the WAN. Based on the unique WX Framework, which integrates all the elements required to optimize application performance, the WX platforms help businesses improve application response times, maximize WAN investments, and control and prioritize key applications.

The WX platforms improve application performance over the WAN by eliminating redundant transmissions, accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols, prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth, and ensuring high availability at sites with multiple WAN links.

The WX platforms communicate constantly to provide distributed stateful intelligence about the entire network, exchanging vital information such as topology, reachability, and path-performance metrics. The WX platforms also interoperate with the Juniper Networks WXC application acceleration platforms, contributing to a complete, integrated WAN optimization solution.

The WX product family includes the WX 15, WX 20, WX 50, WX 60, WX 100, and WX Stack. These platforms provide compressed output ranging from 64 Kbps to 155 Mbps and support two to 2,000 remote sites each. Multiple communities of WX platforms can be configured to support an unlimited number of locations.

The WX platforms can be deployed and configured in just 10 minutes using a web-based installation wizard. The WXOS and WX Central Management System software also enable fully automated configuration; IT simply defines centralized configuration templates and, when remote WX platforms boot up, they retrieve a network address, locate the WX CMS server through the domain name service (DNS), download their configuration file, and begin operation.