Quoting from the NetEx official announcement:
NetEx, the leader in high speed data transport over TCP, today announced its award winning HyperIP software for VMware ESX Server, making NetEx the first WAN optimization vendor to support wide-area data acceleration on the VMware platform.
HyperIP is NetEx’s award-winning business continuity and disaster recovery optimization solution for backup, recovery and data replication applications. It provides unmatched performance for moving TCP data efficiently using patent-pending technology that accelerates and optimizes the industry-leading data replication and file transfer applications by aggregating multiple data replication applications over a shared connection while mitigating the inherent network latency and network disruption for long-distance remote TCP/IP data transmissions. HyperIP WAN optimization appliances support long-distance data transfers at rates above OC-12, the highest performance of any optimization appliance on the market, and 25 – 100 percent faster than competitive products. Transfer speed is optimized for a wide range of data management applications, including backup & remote replication and business continuance/disaster recovery (BC/DR).
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HyperIP for VMware will be available in the first quarter of 2008 with entry-level pricing starting between $6K to $8K…