Technology

Advanced Virtual Pipelining™

Advanced Virtual Pipelining is a new technique developed by Stampede that provides 40% performance improvements for browser based applications.  This performance improvement is on top of Stampede already industry leading performance, and is only possible because of Stampede’s innovative client software for two-way application acceleration, and it becomes an important and standard acceleration technique used with the Stampede Application Acceleration Series™ family of solutions.

Advanced Virtual Pipelining is a highly optimized implementation of Stampede's patent pending TurboStreaming™ (multiplexed TCP sessions) that enables HTTP browser traffic to be intermixed across multiple "pipelines". All browser activity is optimized, including the network-intensive polling associated with Web 2.0 and AJAX applications. A key advantage of Stampede’s AVP client-side implementation is that communication resources can be shared across multiple applications, and all HTTP requests and responses from any application (including multiple browsers) are intermixed simultaneously across multiple concurrent sessions. Stampede’s AVP serves as a platform for the consolidation and aggregation of all Web-based traffic from a given client. Much as physical “link aggregation” uses multiple Ethernet network cables/ports in parallel to increase link speeds beyond the limits of any one single connection, AVP logically aggregates multiple HTTP protocol streams across a few TCP sessions. Individual objects or pieces of objects can be split into any size and then multiplexed with other object data and reconstructed as needed, which makes AVP ideal for converged enterprise networks and managed service networks that must deliver mixed payloads consisting of business-critical applications and data, streaming media, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other network-intensive traffic. The end result is improved throughput and faster response time for the end user.

AVP enables the browser to open multiple pipelines (10s or even 100s) that communicate with the Stampede client software.  All of this data, from all browsers and all browser windows, is intelligently multiplexed over multiple TCP sessions (TurboStreaming)  back to the Stampede appliance.  Much as physical “link aggregation” uses multiple Ethernet network cables/ports in parallel to increase link speeds beyond the limits of any one single connection, AVP logically aggregates multiple HTTP protocol streams across a few TCP sessions. Individual objects or pieces of objects can be split into any size and then multiplexed with other object data and reconstructed as needed.  This fully utilizes all available bandwidth, and enables the browser to function at its full potential. 

This is only possible because of Stampede's advanced, industry leading, client technology.