CACHEBOX solutions for enterprises

OVERVIEW
As an enterprise, your users expect fast, • A Mediterranean cruise ship operator improved - no worries about slow download
dependable internet access for research, internet user experience for passengers speeds or adding to congestion.
communication and collaboration. • An international chain of casinos shows
Software updates without the pain
videos on hundreds of slot machines at once
Enterprise networks are under increasing Windows, Apple or Adobe updates are often
• A remote mining camp operator provides
pressure as employees and/or customers enormous that can swamp a network
better internet access to off-shift workers
access bandwidth-hungry content: when they are due. CACHEBOX takes all that
• A retail chain has streamlined delivery of in-
• online videos pressure off your internet connection.
store advertising videos
• audio
Serve more guests, at a lower cost
• PDF documents
Lower bandwidth use keeps your costs low
• image-rich stock exchange sites
BENEFITS because you don’t have to upgrade to more
• social networks
Improve user satisfaction expensive links. Hotels, retail outlets and internet
• news portals
Serving web content from a local cache cafes can provide more customers with reliable
• large software updates
dramatically improves load times, transforming and internet services.
Whether they want a faster, more reliable
user experience. Enterprises spend less time
Control what your employees access
service, need to support more users or keep
dealing with bandwidth related support issues,
CACHEBOX works alongside third party content
costs down, organisations from
ensuring that employees have the internet
and lets you authenticate users against
deploying web caches in their network:
access they need to remain productive, even
MS Active Directory via browser settings. If
• Where bandwidth is scarce and expensive
at remote branch
required, you can control the types of content
web caches offer cost savings;
Make better use of video that can be accessed by your employees.
payback is rapid and return on investment
very high. The growing use of video in the workplace and Easy to use, low TCO
retail outlets has caused for many ApplianSys has designed CACHEBOX to be
• When high capacity is relatively
enterprise networks. CACHEBOX reduces the quick to deploy, simple to use and easy to
inexpensive, caching helps to deal with
amount of bandwidth consumed by popular maintain. What’s more CACHEBOX is surprisingly
the inevitable pressure to support larger
sites like YouTube and Vimeo. Use video training affordable, but value is more than price.
videos, more social media and heavier
materials or deliver in-store advertising with
software updates. Optimising HTTP content
frees capacity for this additional, often
high priority Without CACHEBOX With CACHEBOX
CACHEBOX is a range of purpose-built
web cache appliances designed to save
INTERNET INTERNET
your bandwidth and speed up internet
access. Customers in over 110 countries
choose CACHEBOX because it delivers high
performance caching, ease of use and
outstanding value for money:
• A large pharmaceutical vendor can
provide employees with fast internet
despite expensive bandwidth
• A hotel chain increased its margins
for guest internet access
• A 15-site electrical equipment distributor
offers employee training videos, and is BANDWIDTH USE BANDWIDTH USE
able to control the sites accessed by them

For more information please visit: www.appliansys.com or call us on: +44 (0) 8454 50 51 52
 FEATURES
Save bandwidth, save money
• Fully featured caching software support for HTTP
• Video caching (YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo,
Dailymotion, Veoh etc)
• Software update caching (MS Windows, Apple,
Avast, Kaspersky etc)
• Off-peak pre-caching of content like foreign
news/media portals
• Static storage - keep objects
permanently, protects from normal cache
deletions

“Web pages that are very often accessed within the • Permanent video storage with customisable
viewing portal
company download at an incredible speed. And if in
Easy to manage
doubt, we now have a control list of all visited websites.” • Intuitive, secure web administration interface

Edicions Bromera, Spain • Setup and caching ‘assistants’

• adapts to deployment mode
• On-box graphical / scheduled reporting to
One branch or many, big or small, there’s a CACHEBOX solution for you monitor network / caching performance
CACHEBOX050 and CACHEBOX100 series are best suited to small businesses or branch They • Automated on/off-box backups
offer excellent performance at a low price point. • Automated alerting

CACHEBOX230 and CACHEBOX310 use Solid State Drives (SSD), giving you higher performance. • Multi-lingual interface available in English,
Depending on your type of the ‘230’ can support more than 5,000 users per appliance at French and Spanish

250Mbps, with ‘310’ supporting up to 10,000 users at 500Mbps. CACHEBOX420 can support more • Operating system runs from read only Industrial
than 20,000 users per appliance, over a 1Gbps bandwidth link. Other vendors only offer this level of CompactFlash

performance with bigger, more expensive devices. • SNMP support allows the box to be
monitored by standard networking tools
In multi-branch companies, CACHEBOXes can be deployed as appropriate across individual
• Supports custom ACLs
and the network core. They can work together in sibling clusters in the core and in parent-child
hierarchies to maximise bandwidth saving and internet performance. Flexible deployment
• Supports multiple transparent and explicit
In large deployments, CACHEBOX Management Console (CACHEBOXCMC) makes it easy to deploy
deployment modes
and remotely manage multiple CACHEBOXes across networks. With CMC, a of caches can
• Optional Fail-to-Wire resiliency
be managed via a single interface, reducing the administrative workload, improving deployment
• Clustering, load balancing, high availabilty and
hierarchies
• WCCP Support (v.2, GRE and Layer 2)

RANGE • IP
• Firewall with NAT forwarding for
Usage Form Factor Performance* (HTTP Requests
networking
per second) / Throughput
• iKVM remote access technology
CACHEBOX050 Small Small Form Factor 400 / 40 Mbps

Desktop Unit Safe client browsing

• MS Active Directory integration via NTLM and
CACHEBOX110 Small 19” 1U Rack-mountable 400 / 40 Mbps
Kerberos authentication
• User Access Logging
CACHEBOX130 Small 19” 1U Rack-mountable 500 / 60 Mbps

Secure Management Interface

CACHEBOX210 SME / Branch 19” 1U Rack-mountable 1,300 / 100 Mbps • Secure HTTPS and SSH management interface
• RADIUS/LDAP authentication
CACHEBOX230 Medium enterprise 19” 1U Rack-mountable 2,500 / 250+ Mbps
“We’re getting great
bandwidth savings - 40%
CACHEBOX310 Large enterprise 19” 1U Rack-mountable 3,600 / 500+ Mbps byte hit ratio and we saw
High throughput around 80% during a recent
round of Apple updates”
CACHEBOX420 Large network core 19” 2U Rack-mountable 6,000 / 1+ Gbps
Aqib Korai, Network Manager, Liptinfor,
High throughput
Nigeria
CACHEBOXCMC Remote administration of up 19” 1U Rack-mountable Not Applicable For inquiries:
to 500 CACHEBOXes

Note: *Peak performance achieved under test conditions. Real life performance limits vary, depending on network and characteristics

For more information please visit: www.appliansys.com or call us on: +44 (0) 8454 50 51 52