Tolly Group Confirms DBAM's EP600 as Leading Traffic Shaper and Application Acceleration Technology

Oct 1, 2008 London - DBAM Systems providers of traffic shaping and application acceleration technology, today released details of the test results from independent technology testing undertaken by The Tolly Group in September 2008, which proves that DBAM's Exbander Precison EP600 assists organisations with traffic shaping and application acceleration to a degree that no competitor can currently match.

The results reveal that DBAM’s EP600 enables businesses to accelerate data transfer times by up to 174 times for strategic application types such as CIFS HTTP, MAPI, SQL and FTP traffic, making efficient use of WAN links – with the potential to deliver increased productivity and generate significant business savings across the network.

Kevin Tolly, Chief Executive Officer and Founder at The Tolly Group said, “The EP600 has produced brilliant results offering great performance and high bandwidth savings making this box likely to pay for itself very quickly in an average size network.”

“The Tolly Group’s independent verification of our technology is great news for network and IT managers around the world,” comments Dino Cooper, Managing Director at DBAM Systems. “Now they can have greater visibility of their network from a macro level to a granular degree, quickly find and resolve network problems and prioritise business critical data. Overall the benefit to organisations whether they are on a global scale, a multiple site company or a single site organisation that transfer high capacity and volumes, is that the DBAM Exbander Precision EP600 saves them money and time like no other traffic shaping technology available.”

The DBAM Exbander Precision EP600 unit and software delivers advanced traffic shaping and application acceleration across a wide variety of traffic parameters, to protect application performance. Specifically the EP600 brings together a range of features on one device including comprehensive network traffic analysis, management and reporting, application acceleration, streaming compression, routing, load balancing plus a host of security features.

Regardless of the traffic type tested, the EP600 delivered sizeable improvements in the time required to transfer data or files across a simulated WAN links. Tolly Group engineers tested several different file-transfer protocols to simulate real-world application such as remote file access, intranet & internet, database and email.   Across a 512Kbps – 250 msec RTT, a performance improvement of between 22 times to 174 times was achieved.  At 2,048Kbps – 100 msec RTT, an improvement of speed 10 times to 59 times was achieved and at 4,096Kbps – 60 msec RTT, an improvement of speed 6 times to 35 times was achieved.

As well as the improvement in performance, which improves the efficiency and productivity of staff at remote sites, bandwidth availability was increased by up to 23,000 times which allows network managers to maximise their existing bandwidth investment. The unparalleled visibility and new Network Diagnostics capability effectively reduces the support requirements for network management teams by highlighting mis-configurations, inefficiencies and incompatibilities of network devices.

The testing went further than pure empirical throughput; The Tolly Group simulated an overload of the network to test the EP600’s ability to accelerate business-critical traffic even under heavy load. The company found that acceleration was unaffected by flooding the network link by applying traffic shaping, a technology in use by every Service Provider around the world and now made available for enterprises in the same device as application acceleration.