Readers wrote that the WX and WXC Application Acceleration appliances from Juniper Networks were "too good," a criticism any company would be proud of. They scored well in WAN throughput improvement and improved transfer times but fared best with their stellar support. Eighty-four percent of survey respondents rated Juniper's service and support good or excellent.

Of course, readers said that the service backed up a quality product: 79% of them saw good or great WAN improvement, and they saw similar improvements in transfer speeds. Integration was also ranked highly, with 72% of readers rating it good or excellent.

So what features do readers love? Juniper's advertised ability to increase effective WAN capacity one hundredfold through caching doesn't hurt; and simple, 10-minute Web configuration means that the WX and WXC can be dropped in and running in no time.

Michael Morisy, News Writer