Expand Networks Virtual Accelerator won the TMCnet Satellite Product of the Year Award, which isn't easy. These awards are granted to a select list of companies who have proven their commitment to quality and excellence while addressing the real needs in the marketplace and for their accomplishments and advancements of the satellite technology industry.

Virtual Accelerator brings application acceleration into virtualized environments by leveraging the strengths of virtualization with resource sharing and application mobility including a full feature soft appliance that runs on VMWare’s line of hypervisors from workstation through ESX Server 3 and includes support for layer 4-7 acceleration, advanced compression, and wide area file services.

It costs per remote office rise linearly as more offices are added. One way organizations are reducing costs is through consolidating applications back to a data center and reducing computers in the office. Using virtualization to consolidate critical resources onto a single platform makes sense and fitting in Expands Virtual Accelerator as one more service reduces another remote system.