When you use IPQ to boost network quality, you boost the user Quality of Experience (QoE) associated with almost any networked application from Microsoft.

2. The user experience is of paramount importance. User expectations of application performance are very high and failure to meet those expectations can become a difficult obstacle in the path toward ubiquitous technology adoption.

3. Packet loss causes reduced TCP throughput which in turn triggers side-effects like CODEC downspeeding, buffering delays, and audio quality issues. The user experience of TCP-based protocols and applications that rely on large video flows (e.g., RDS, RDP, Hyper V Streaming, Xbox Live MMOG, Xbox Live Streaming [Netflix], and Windows Media Center over home WiFi) suffers badly under these circumstances.

4. Hyper V applications such as SQL Server, Exchange, App-V, and SharePoint running over RDS are susceptible to UI lag caused by packet loss. Users experience UI lag as delayed and out of sequence mouse and keyboards inputs, and delayed windows operations.

5. Packet loss can have a severe impact on UDP-based network applications (e.g., Windows 7 Phone Video Chat, Silverlight, and OCS Video Chat) producing video artefacts, pixelation, comet-tails and freeze-ups. (See the impact of packet loss on the UDP-based PCoIP protocol implemented in VMWare View: follow-on IPQ-for-PCoIP testing.)

6. User Experience: Speed

7. The upcoming Windows 8 Application and OS streaming (per Softricity) and offline VDI capabilities (per Kidaro) will be required to support large data flows. As described above, packet loss will lead to reduced TCP throughput which will result in extended operation completion times for these applications.

8. WAN Cost and Performance: Cost

9. Enterprises considering the adoption of technologies and applications that require large amounts of bandwidth consumption (e.g., RDS, Azure, Windows Azure Appliances, OCS, SQL Server, Exchange, Sharepoint) must be prepared to consider disproportionately high network operating costs. An investment bank in Singapore deploying 4,000 VMware View desktops over the corporate MPLS WAN was forced to disable the bandwidth-hungry support for multimedia on those desktops: the network costs for multimedia support were far too high. In contrast, IPeak Networks recently demonstrated to a large bank that uses Cisco TelePresence to speed communications and decisions between branches and across its operations throughout South East Asia. As shown in the ROI calculations below, IPeak Networks enabled a potential 17X reduction in the bank’s TelePresence network operating costs by simply replacing the 8 Mbps MPLS links with much more affordable 8 Mbps DSL links protected by IPQ.

10. Enterprises unwilling or unable to abandon MPLS can still realize significant savings by relaxing the SLA to a “best effort” class and adding IPQ protection to maintain the quality of the network services. IPeak Networks experience shows that this approach can return a 50% reduction in MPLS network operating cost.

11. In the emerging Desktop-as-a-Service Use there is typically a requirement to connect back-end enterprise data to off-premises clouds. IPeak Networks experience indicates that the associated MPLS costs can add as much as 25% to the monthly cost of each desktop.

12. By using IPQ to reduce network operating costs, enterprises are free to opt for wider deployments of more fully featured RDS implementations including RemoteFX.

13. WAN Cost and Performance: Speed

14. MPLS cannot be used to connect public cloud services like Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure. The low quality public Internet is the only way to connect to these services. Enterprises needing to transfer large files to and from the cloud will experience extended operation completion times.

15. Hyper-V applications needing to move large amounts of data over public internet without protection against packet loss will experience extended operation completion times.

16. Backup, replication and disaster recovery applications and services that require Internet connections between data centers and clouds will experience prohibitively long operation completion times.

17. WAN Cost and Performance: Reach

18. IPQ can greatly extend the reach of applications like RDS, Azure, Hyper-V Apps, and OCS. By effectively adding the quality needed to the ubiquitous Internet. Enterprises can extend their deployments of these applications well beyond that of the metro-constrained MPLS networks.

19. IPQ can greatly extend the reach of consumer-oriented applications of Xbox Live Streaming, Xbox Live MMOG Gaming, Silverlight, and Windows Media Center by adding the quality that these applications need to the public Internet.

20. WAN Cost and Performance: Visibility

21. IPQ offers a uniquely powerful real-time network telemetry capability. IPQ monitors, measures, and stores actual network conditions in an SNMP MIB that can be used to properly ascribe the responsibility for network performance and quality versus application performance and quality.