Expand Networks

Expand Networks is a technology company that helped pioneer the Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization market. Founded in 1998, Expand Networks has grown to be the leading provider of “Virtual Proximity” solutions over the Wide Area Network. Expand Networks has more than 4,500 customers with over 50,000 units deployed and boasts the industries largest installation of over 3,000+ devices.

Virtual Proximity’ is the experience Expand delivers to users of business critical applications and services across enterprise Wide Area Networks. The net effect of virtualization & consolidation within the enterprise is the widening of the gap between users and business resources over the WAN… the ‘Proximity Gap’.

To overcome this ‘Proximity Gap’ enterprises need to enable the accelerated delivery and guaranteed performance of business critical applications and services within virtualized environments and across distributed enterprise landscapes.

Expand bridges the ‘Proximity Gap’ by delivering a ‘virtual proximity’ experience to users. Whether it be server virtualization at the datacenter, server consolidation at the branch office or desktop virtualization for remote users, Expand effectively bridges the ‘Proximity Gap’ by putting the user in virtual proximity to the application and data centre services.