Start-up crams more data onto WAN

Start-up crams more data onto WAN

By Tim Greene
Network World, 07/05/04
Start-up Orbital Data is launching gear that it says boosts throughput on WAN connections 10 times or more by overcoming bottlenecks caused by the limitations of TCP.
Called Orbital 5500, the appliance is sold in pairs with one at each end of a wide-area link, where they optimize TCP sessions so transmissions fill the available pipe rather than sending at the slower speeds that TCP normally dictates.