Mobile Email Performance Improvement

By Stephanie Jordan
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Earlier this month AppRiver  announced its Akamai-optimized Microsoft Exchange service improves mobile email performance by 50 percent over alternatives after reviewing the results of a performance evaluation using the mobile performance monitoring testing solutions from Compuware Gomez. According to the company, AppRiver is the first Microsoft Exchange hosting provider to embed the Akamai global distribution platform into its secure service resulting in faster connectivity and more reliable performance from both wireline and wireless business email at no additional cost.

“AppRiver’s relationship with Akamai is an excellent example of how network optimization can create a differentiated and improved IT service — in this case hosted Exchange,” says Peter Christy, principal analyst, Internet Research Group. “By optimizing the connection from email user to server, Akamai enables AppRiver to deliver consistently fast, reliable service to customers. These optimizations are completely transparent to the hosted email user and significantly improve the user’s experience, especially on longer connection paths.”

Gomez’s mobile monitoring solution was used to test performance levels of communication to AppRiver-enhanced mobile devices with, and without, Akamai acceleration over U.S.-based mobile broadband networks. The series of tests simulated users with identical login credentials, signing into their Exchange accounts, and running through a typical Exchange transaction. Response times were tracked at three designated U.S. mobile testing nodes (Boston, Chicago, and Seattle) within each major U.S. cell carrier’s network.

Read more on the study and the teaming of AppRiver and Akamai Technologies.

 

Published March 11, 2010