KITE - control and optimize enterprise Internet access

KITE is Ipanema's Internet access control and optimization kit for enterprises. The Internet has become ubiquitous in today's world, and the world of business is no exception.

Enterprises have come to rely on it for:

• User access to external web sites and supplying a variety of content (data, music, images, video) from popular sites, such as Wikipedia, Google, Flickr and Dailymotion.
• Software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing offerings, for example SalesForce.com, Webex and Amazon EC2.
• Peer-to-peer (data, voice, images) via Skype and other collaboration and sharing solutions.
• External access to enterprise servers from remote offices and mobile employees via the Internet, and to corporate websites by the general public.

KITE has been built to enable the enterprise to maintain employee productivity and customer satisfaction by easily controlling and improving the usage and performance of applications using the Internet. It comes with a complete management and reporting software package (IMSS) and an ip|engine appliance for installation on the Internet access link. KITE has five configurations: KITE 20 (up to 20Mbps), KITE 100 (up to 100Mbps), KITE 150 (up to 150Mbps), KITE 300 (up to 300Mbps) and KITE 1000 (up to 1 Gbps full duplex). KITE offers a comprehensive, integrated set of features to control and optimize the performance of all applications using the Internet, and it enables:

• Visibility and reporting on not just the network traffic, but on application performance as well.
• Optimization and acceleration to guarantee application performance, whether for VPN, ERP, Intranet, Citrix, Web-hosted applications or others.
• Rightsizing to enable the purchase of the right amount of Internet access bandwidth to achieve the business's employee productivity and/or customer satisfaction goals, without guesswork or over-provisioning.