The Application Acceleration Services uses Netli’s NetLightning service, which speeds up web traffic across the internet by placing servers close to the server and client, each of which intercepts, aggregates, and compresses the data, cutting down on round-trip time and reducing application latency.
Verizon has embedded the Netli acceleration engine into its 446,000-mile global IP network and said that the Australian, Chinese, or European operations of a US-based multinational company could see the speed with which they access applications hosted in the US increased by 600% using the Accelerator service.
The service is available to US-based organizations and a basic package starts at $6,650 per month, which covers 5mbps of bandwidth per single functional IP application. Verizon plans to market the service to companies based out the US in the near future once it has firmed up its billing and pricing strategy.
Rick Dyer, director of product management at Verizon Business, said that when companies suffer problems with the performance of their applications, they typically tackle it with caching or load-balancing quick-fixes, or by adding more infrastructure to their data centers and adapting the hosted systems to make them more IP-friendly.
In addition to the Accelerator service, Verizon will also offer an Applications Continuity service, which enables clients with a multi-data center environment to shift application traffic between centers based on business policies and requirements. The third prong of the service launch is an Application Portal, which enables clients to measure, aggregate, and present information on web-based applications.
