Ecessa (formerly Astrocom) WAN optimization products enable small-to-medium size enterprises to reliably run their network-based applications and distribute traffic among multiple, diverse WAN links to ensure business continuity by removing bottlenecks and eliminating network downtime. These capabilities improve user access to business-critical applications within datacenters and remote sites, aid in lowering operational costs, and make it easier to provision, maintain, and support business-critical networks and the applications that run over these networks.

Ecessa is a leader in affordable WAN optimization for inbound and outbound WAN and ISP link aggregation, automated link load balancing, failover, and network security tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical applications. Ecessa helps organizations rapidly grow with network high-availability, optimized WAN performance, flexible scalability and secure access - while lowering network IT costs.

Ecessa’s products deliver industry leading price/performance value. PowerLink™ and ShieldLink optimize WAN traffic for organizations of all types who wish to improve network and application performance and eliminate downtime for business-critical, time-sensitive applications. PowerLink and ShieldLink bundle multiple WAN lines (T1, T3, xDSL, Cable, ISDN, Wireless, Satellite, etc.), to enable WAN and/or ISP redundancy, automated link failover, load balancing, site failover/fallback, and VPN redundancy and failover.

Ecessa uses multi-homing to connect a single LAN to multiple ISPs or WAN links; enables quality-of-service (QoS) to prioritize network traffic to ensure the best possible bandwidth is always available to applications, especially during periods of congestion, and uses link load balancing and automatic failover to direct traffic to WAN links with the optimum bandwidth and cost-efficiencies.

Ecessa Products
 
Ecessa WAN link controllers deliver industry leading price/performance value.

At last, there is a WAN optimization solution that combines rich features and performance with affordability. Ecessa leads the industry in driving the price/performance value proposition for link-based WAN optimization to levels that SME customers can afford. Ecessa enables small and medium sized enterprises (SME) to provision multiple Internet links to ensure business continuity - removing downtime and bottlenecks, while lowering operational costs.
PowerLink is Ecessa's family of affordable WAN link controllers for bandwidth aggregation, link load balancing and failover. PowerLink enables redundant WAN and ISP access, and provides traffic shaping and both outbound and inbound WAN/ISP load balancing and failover, and site-to-site channel bonding to ensure WAN uptime.

PowerLink WAN Link Controller
PowerLink 50, 100 and 250 WAN Link Controllers

PowerLink 50, 100	PowerLink 250

The PowerLink 50, 100 and 250 enable organizations with a single location to have an affordable solution for automatic link failover between WAN link connections for WAN availability and high-performance.

PowerLink 55, 200 and 250EHQ WAN Link Controllers

PowerLink 55, 200	PowerLink 250EHQ

These PowerLink products provide organizations that have multiple locations with an affordable solution for automatic ISP link load balancing and failover to ensure WAN availability and high-performance.

ShieldLink Secure WAN Link Controller
 
ShieldLink is Ecessa’s family of advanced, yet highly affordable secure WAN link controllers that incorporate all of the capabilities of PowerLink, while bringing network security to the next level by incorporating a built-in firewall and VPN Gateway. ShieldLink can be purchased as a stand-alone controller, as an add-on (software/firmware) module for certain PowerLink products.

ShieldLink 100 and 250 Secure WAN Link Controllers

ShieldLink 100	ShieldLink 250

These ShieldLink products provide organizations that have multiple locations with an affordable solution for automatic ISP link load balancing and failover, with a built-in firewall and VPN Gateway to ensure WAN availability and high-performance.