Streamcore Introduces New Traffic Classification for SaaS Applications

Wireless News
11-12-2010
Streamcore Introduces New Traffic Classification for SaaS Applications
Type: News

Streamcore, a provider of visibility and dynamic performance control solutions to manage interactive applications and real-time communications delivery over the WAN, announced the availability of a new, HTTPS traffic classification capability for Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) applications on enterprise networks.

Streamcore said its new classification feature automatically detects SaaS traffic such as Salesforce, Citrix GoToMeeting, Google Apps or Microsoft Online Services. Once classified, Streamcore solutions can monitor and prioritize any type of SaaS traffic over corporate Internet access links to ensure the best possible performance.
The Company noted that maintaining acceptable service levels for SaaS is one of the biggest concerns that enterprises have when considering the adoption of public cloud computing services. Interactive or real-time SaaS applications are accessed by employees through corporate Internet access links and compete with bandwidth intensive traffic such as recreational Web surfing, emails and software updates. As a result, network congestion can severely degrade the performance of SaaS traffic, hindering all the benefits that SaaS should deliver.

According to a release, the adoption of SaaS results in the need for both controlled network performance and better WAN traffic visibility, which are two of Streamcore's core competencies. However, in order to gain visibility and control of SaaS traffic, the capability to identify this type of traffic on the network is required. For security reasons, SaaS HTTP traffic is always encrypted and exchanged over SSL (HTTPS), making traditional traffic classification processes based on TCP/UDP ports or HTTP URLs useless. Consequently, Streamcore has enhanced its Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) engine to automatically identify and classify SSL- based WebEx, Salesforce and other public cloud computing SaaS traffic into specific classes for monitoring and prioritization. While most network solutions managing SSL traffic (e.g., firewalls, application acceleration) must act as a SSL proxy to decrypt and re- encrypt the traffic, Streamcore's SSL classification engine does not intercept or modify SSL traffic and is non-intrusive.

"Awareness of all types of applications on the network is the first critical step in managing performance," said Frederic Hediard, vice president of product strategy at Streamcore. "Streamcore provides one of the most advanced DPI engines for detecting business applications, especially real-time communications such as voice over IP and video. Our new capability for automatically classifying business-critical SaaS applications further helps enterprises to ensure their public cloud computing projects are not jeopardized by poor network performance over corporate Internet access links."

More information:

www.streamcore.com

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