The Product's Architecture (Cont.)

• An appliance (running Linux) is set in the data-center, with access to the various services of the organization (web servers, mail servers, DB servers...)
• In each branch office, a similar appliance (also running Linux) is installed.
• Software running on the branch-office appliances exports TCP or UDP services, which are proxied to the appliance in the data-center, and from there to the actual servers.
• The proxy software performs adaptive data-compression (i.e. it adapts to the data being proxied for each service).

Originally written by guy keren