WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series

Signifcantly enhanced WAN application performance and user experience

In today’s distributed enterprise, efficient The WXA optimizes performance and utilization of bandwidth, increased reduces latency by transmitting only security, and ease of deployment and new or changed data across the network management are important factors after initial file transfer, resulting in when considering a WAN acceleration dramatically reduced traffic volumes. In solution. Throughput can be exhausted addition, the managing firewall enables by collaboration applications such as you to identify and prioritize application Benefts: Microsoft® SharePoint and Windows® traffic while the WXA minimizes traffic • Simplified deployment, routing File Sharing. At the same time, due to the between sites. and integration popularity of Web 2.0 and social media, • Increased security an exponential increase in Internet The Dell SonicWALL solution • Protocol optimization traffic is already overburdening WAN streamlines the placement, deployment, • Byte caching and file caching bandwidth. This inefficient utilization configuration, routing, management • Scalability through clustering of available bandwidth results in higher and integration of the WXA with • Reduced TCO latency, lowering employee productivity. other components such as VPNs. • Data compression Spending more on increased bandwidth Consolidating WAN acceleration • Windows File Sharing (WFS) or enhanced services, or purchasing with core next-generation firewall acceleration disparate point solutions, does not technologies including intrusion • HTTP (Web) caching resolve the problem. prevention, anti-malware, and • Visualization application intelligence, control and • WAN Acceleration client software The Dell™ SonicWALL™ WAN Acceleration visualization at the gateway significantly Appliance (WXA) Series enables you increases security while lowering the to easily and securely enhance WAN total cost of ownership. application performance at remote and branch offices, thus improving The powerful combination of a Dell the end user experience that leads SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall to increased productivity. Unlike and WXA enables you to more standalone WAN acceleration products efficiently manage your bandwidth and that are deployed either behind the simplify next-generation firewall and firewall or between the firewall and WAN Acceleration deployment and WAN router, the Dell SonicWALL WXA management without compromising Series is an integrated add-on to the Dell security. Dell SonicWALL makes it SonicWALL Next- Generation Firewall. easy for you to add one or more WXA The solution enables comprehensive solutions into your network by providing scanning for intrusions and malware a variety of platform options including before accelerating the traffic across both hardware and virtual appliances as the VPN or dedicated WAN link, thus well as software. maximizing security and performance. Features and benefits Extend the long-term value of your Improve response time while decreasing Drastically simplify deployment, existing WAN links and enhance the user the amount of data transferred when routing and integration of multiple experience by dramatically reducing downloading or accessing files from a WXA appliances across your network bandwidth consumption through byte shared drive, using Windows File Sharing through complete provisioning and and file caching. (WFS) acceleration. configuration by a Dell SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall. Scale to meet the WAN acceleration Increase browser response time while needs of a growing user population decreasing bandwidth using HTTP Add a layer of security by scanning all through clustering, which enables (Web) caching. data for threats before sending it to several Dell SonicWALL WXA solutions to the WAN acceleration appliance using be linked together at each location. Get better insight into performance Dell SonicWALL Reassembly-Free Deep gains from WAN acceleration with Packet Inspection® technology. Reduce total cost of ownership real-time visualization. (TCO) by increasing efficiency and Optimize network efficiency to give overall utilization of your existing WAN WAN Acceleration client software allows users LAN-like application performance bandwidth, thus avoiding costly traffic initiated from remote Windows over your WAN by decreasing WAN upgrades. PCs or laptops running NetExtender to latency and chattiness presented be accelerated. due to inefficient protocols or Increase performance and reduce application communication. latency with data compression across the WAN.

Dell SonicWALL WXA Series deployment scenario

5 4 4 1 Dell SonicWALL NSA 6600 1 Dell SonicWALL NSA 250M File server

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3 1 Dell SonicWALL Next-Generation Visualization shows the performance 3 Firewall appliances provide site-to-site gains and benefts of introducing WAN VPN connectivity between a remote or acceleration into the network. branch office and the main corporate 4 Dell SonicWALL Application headquarters. Intelligence and Control prioritizes and 2 Dell SonicWALL WXA appliances controls application traffic. improve WAN performance by decreasing 5 Dell SonicWALL NetExtender using latency, while reducing the amount of WAN Acceleration client software. data traversing through the VPN. 6 Cluster several Dell SonicWALL WXA appliances together to increase scalability. HTTP (Web) caching deployment scenario

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1 Dell SonicWALL NSA 6600 www.sports.com

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Clients www.video.com

1 Dell SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall 3 Visualization shows the performance gains appliances provides Deep Packet Inspection and benefts of introducing WAN acceleration scanning for malware and intrusions. into the network.

2 Dell SonicWALL WXA appliance provides 4 Dell SonicWALL Application Intelligence Web (HTTP) caching to decrease bandwidth and Control prioritizes and controls utilization and improves browser response application traffic. times. Specifications

WXA 5000 WXA 500 WXA 6000 WXA 2000 WXA 4000 Virtual Software Software Appliance Hardware Hardware Virtual appliance Platform Software5 Software5 appliance appliance (VMware) Software Maximum users1 20 120 240 360 2,000 Maximum connections 100 600 1,200 1,8003 10,000 Dell SonicWALL WXA 500 Software with Software Maximum web caching 100 600 1,200 1,8003 10,000 connections Subscription and Dynamic Support 24x7 (1-year) 01-SSC-9438 Included/maximum concurrent WXA 2/20 2/50 2/125 2/125 2/125 client licenses4 Byte caching Yes TCP/fle compression Yes Management Requires SonicOS 5.8.1 or later Clustering6 — Yes Yes Yes Yes Dell SonicWALL WXA 2000 with Dynamic Support CIFS/SMB acceleration Yes2 Yes 24x7 (1-year) 01-SSC-9440 Signed SMB support Yes WFS/TCP visualization Yes SNMP Yes Syslog Yes Operating system Hardened Dell SonicWALL Linux OS Rack-mount chassis — 1 RU — Dell SonicWALL WXA 4000 with Dynamic Support Intel Dual Core CPU — Intel 2.0GHz — 24x7 (1-year) 01-SSC-9442 2.0GHz RAM — 2 GB 4 GB — Hard drive — 250 GB 2x250 GB — Redundant Disk Array (RAID) — RAID 1 — 17.0 x 16.4 x 1.7 in/43.18 x 41.59 Dimensions — — — Dell SonicWALL WXA 5000 with Software x 4.44 cm Subscription and Dynamic Support 24x7 (1-year) Weight — 16 lbs/7.26 kg — 01-SSC-9444 WEEE weight — 16 lbs/7.37 kg — Power consumption (watts) — 86 101 — BTUs — 293 344 — MTBF (years) — 14.27 —

WXA 500 Software only WXA 6000 Software only Software Dell hardware Dell Inspiron 3847, Dell XPS 8700 Dell PowerEdge R320 Server

SonicWALL WXA 6000 Software including 1 Year WXA 5000 Virtual Appliance only Software Subscription and Dynamic Support 24x7 Hypervisor ESX and ESXi (5.0 and newer) 01-SSC-9078 Operating system installed Hardened SonicLinux Minimum CPU 2 x 1.6 GHz Allocated memory 4 GB Software and Support Renewals Applied disk size 250 GB SonicWALL WXA 6000 Software Subscription and VMware Hardware Dynamic Support 24x7 (1-Year) 01-SSC-9079 http://vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php Compatibility Guide Dell SonicWALL WXA 5000 Virtual Appliance 1 Maximum users may vary depending on the number of connections being generated per user. including Software Subscription and Dynamic 2 CIFS/SMB acceleration is available only when the WXA software image is installed on the supplied Dell hardware. 3 The max number of connections is dependent on the hardware specifcations and may vary depending on the hardware Support 24x7 (1-year)* 01-SSC-9455 confguration. The specifcations provided are the minimum requirements to run the WXA Virtual Appliance. 4 NetExtender is required in order to use the WXA client software. Please refer to the WXA release notes for supported Dell SonicWALL Dynamic Support 24x7 for operating systems. WXA 4000 (1-year)* 01-SSC-9452 5 The WXA 500 and 6000 software can be downloaded from www.mysonicwall.com and requires specifc Dell hardware in order to operate. 6 Requires SonicOS 6.2 or higher. Dell SonicWALL Dynamic Support 24x7 for WXA 2000 (1-year)* 01-SSC-9449

Dell SonicWALL WXA 500 Software Subscription and Dynamic Support 24x7 (1-year)* 01-SSC-9446

*Two and three-year options are also available.

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