OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2012. Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT/TSE:6501) today announced that it has unveiled WAN Accelerator Family for global data centers, and for enterprises with global R&D, design, and manufacturing operations. The initial model goes on sale worldwide from January 12, 2012.

Hitachi WAN Accelerator Family speeds up international transfers of large volumes of graphical design data and the like - by minimizing the performance impact of packet losses and round-trip delays on global Wide Area Networks (WANs). It makes it possible in less time to share and update large volume of data necessary for global operations. Thus it improves the productivities of global banks and manufacturers, such as automobile, steal and semiconductor industries.

There is an increasing demand for transferring large volumes of CAD (Computer-Aided Design) data and the like, among overseas offices. However, the commonly-used conventional TCP/IP protocol is not efficient over long-distance global links — its throughput is severely impacted by round-trip delay and packet losses. Commonly-used content-cache technologies also waste bandwidth when delivering large volumes of frequently-updated data, so do not effectively improve performance.

Hitachi WAN Accelerator Family is not cache-type solutions, but making the best use of the physical bandwidth of communication channels, reducing the time to access data updates, and thus improving productivity of global companies significantly.

Leading global companies are thus highly motivated to use such reliable high-speed communication technologies to accelerate large-data transfers, or to expand their private-enterprise cloud services worldwide.