Gartner has published their 2012 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, authored by Joe Skorupa and Severine Real. Ipanema Technologies has been positioned as a "Visionary" in the 2012 Magic Quadrant report.

According to the report, "WAN optimization is about improving the performance of business applications over WAN connections. This means matching the allocation of WAN resources to business needs and deploying the optimization techniques that deliver measurable business benefits. The majority of WOCs are purchased by North American companies (with Europe coming second) because these companies have the greatest number of branch offices. These WOCs are deployed to support an increasingly global WAN footprint.

Most networks carry a variety of traffic types of differing characteristics and importance. Many organizations are striving to manage this traffic to optimize the response times of critical applications and reduce costs, given that bandwidth continues to represent a significant proportion of operating expenditure for wide-area data networks. But the cost of bandwidth isn't the only consideration — as resources are increasingly centralized, minimizing the effect of latency on application response times is becoming a critical requirement. In addition, virtualization and new application environments, such as cloud computing and Web services, can put an unexpected strain on the network…"

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, Jan. 2012