Opteq specializes in high-end solutions for ISP’s, enterprises and SME’s who are dissatisfied with the limited scalability, complexity and functionality of current performance management offerings on the market. Our product is an integrated modular resolution that provides unsurpassed control over network quality management. Unlike Allot, f5, bluecoat, expand or packeteer, we have assembled all the tools required for administrators to optimally manage their network. Opteq offers true end to end network optimisation from the data centre to the branch offices and beyond to the mobile users. Its modular open systems compliant architecture allows it to transparently amalgamate with existing systems and fill in any gaps where required.

Opteq operates in both the WAN optimisation and Application delivery controller arenas.

Application Delivery Controller (ADC) - solutions sit in front of the server and optimise Web-based applications for both employees of the business and its partners. A distinct advantage of Opteq’s wan optimisation solution is that it only requires a single central unit to make a huge impact on network performance as opposed to competing solutions that typically must have a unit on either side of the link in order to even function. With a single Opteq you can gain control and optimise traffic to all branch offices. Based on detailed reports gleamed from that unit one can decide which technologies to deploy at which remote sites in order to gain maximum benefit and further optimisation. Opteq turns a sluggish WAN into a LAN like performance. Reducing the volume of data being sent across the network, the number of round trips being used by chatty protocols, congestion on the network, and the effects of packet loss and jitter on the traffic which result in retransmissions. Opteq’s hardware platform solution works across all typical transport networks, with additional benefits in MPLS and satellite networks.

Not so long ago the WAN was the exclusive domain of frame-relay communication and leased lines. Today, a WAN may use anything from IPSec connections and cable modems to MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) tunnelled over multimegabit networks. The methods may have changed, but the challenge remains the same: How do you make a WAN operate like one big LAN? Simply throwing more bandwidth at the problem of latency won’t solve it. Today's businesses are running business-critical and time-sensitive applications that require guaranteed bandwidth allocation and performance. MPLS has been touted as the fix and can go some way toward improving WAN performance, but the root cause of the problem lies well below the MPLS level.

Latency, congestion, chatty applications, and traffic contention all affect the wan’s latency and responsiveness. Many have updated their WAN connections to 10, 45, 100 Mb so they can quickly transfer there critical files to the other side of the planet only to find they aren’t getting any better throughput than they had before. Unfortunately increasing the bandwidth doesn’t help. Long fat networks (LFNs) run at T1 speeds and higher, but suffer greatly from the inherent latency of the link. The problem is that the protocols’ efficiency suffers as latency increases. TCP, for example, uses ACK (acknowledgement) packets to help provide reliability. But on high-latency links, waiting for ACKs chokes throughput. Thus, latency is one of the biggest — if not the biggest — killer of WAN performance, both in response time and overall throughput.

Opteq utilises various technologies to ensure you get the most out of your wan at all times including the following: Read more about it here