WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series

Significantly enhanced WAN application performance and user experience

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

Dell SonicWALL WXA Series 5 deployment scenario

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Dell SonicWALL 1 4 NSA E8500 1 Dell SonicWALL File server NSA 250M

Internet 2 2 Web server WAN Acceleration WAN Acceleration 3 3

Email server VPN

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

2 HTTP (Web) caching deployment scenario

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Dell SonicWALL 1 NSA E8500

www.sports.com

Internet Clients 2

WXA 4000 www.search.com 3

www.video.com

1 Dell SonicWALL Next-Generation 3 Visualization shows the performance Firewall appliances provides Deep gains and benefits of introducing WAN Packet Inspection scanning for acceleration into the network. malware and intrusions. 4 Dell SonicWALL Application 2 Dell SonicWALL WXA appliance Intelligence and Control prioritizes and provides Web (HTTP) caching to controls application traffic. decrease bandwidth utilization and improves browser response times.

3 Specifications

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

WXA 500 Software and Support Renewals Live CD Only Dell SonicWALL WXA 5000 Virtual Appliance Dell hardware Dell OptiPlex 3010, 660s, 270s Software Subscription and Dynamic Support 24x7 (1-year)* 01-SSC-9455

Dell SonicWALL Dynamic Support 24x7 for WXA 5000 WXA 4000 (1-year)* Virtual Appliance only 01-SSC-9452

Hypervisor ESX and ESXi Dell SonicWALL Dynamic Support 24x7 for (version 4.0, 5.0 and newer) WXA 2000 (1-year)* Operating system installed Hardened SonicLinux 01-SSC-9449

Minimum CPU 2 x 1.6 GHz Dell SonicWALL WXA 500 Live CD Software Allocated memory 4 GB Subscription and Dynamic Support 24x7 (1-year)* Applied disk size 250 GB 01-SSC-9446 VMware Hardware http://vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php Compatibility Guide *Two and three-year options are also available.

1 Maximum users may vary depending on the number of connections being generated per user. For more information on Dell SonicWALL 2 CIFS/SMB acceleration is available only when the Live CD image is installed on the provided hardware. solutions, please visit www.sonicwall.com. 3 The max number of connections is dependent on the hardware specifications and may vary depending on the hardware configuration. The specifications provided are the minimum requirements to run the WXA Virtual Appliance. Security Monitoring Services from Dell 4 NetExtender is required in order to use the WXA client software. Please refer to the WXA release notes for supported operating SecureWorks are available for this systems. appliance Series. For more information, visit www.dell.com/secureworks

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