Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Virtela for Changing the Face of the Managed WAN Optimization Services Market

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Virtela for Changing the Face of the Managed WAN Optimization Services Market PR Newswire MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Oct. 8, 2012 -- Virtela's Cloud-Based Application Acceleration Service has become the Managed WAN Optimization Service of Choice MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the Managed WAN Optimization Services market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Virtela with the 2012 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership for its Cloud-Based Application Acceleration Service. This service leverages Virtela's Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC) architecture, an open and robust global platform that supports a broad portfolio of managed network, mobility, and security services. Virtela ESC comprises more than 50 Local Cloud Centers (LCCs) worldwide, which are integrated with the company's overlay public and private network. ESC supports any private or public cloud service, any location, any access type, and any communication-enabled device. Within this architecture, the LCCs serve as intelligent on- and off-ramps to the Virtela virtualized network, accelerating and optimizing traffic with application acceleration technologies, and then utilizing route-optimization algorithms to speed delivery end to end.