With increasing usage of smart phones in enterprises, the ADC vendors got a new market open up. Mobile users would want to access documents, send emails seamlessly.
Some vendors have already ventured into this smart phone ADC market. They started giving a proxy application that can run on the smart phones. Smart phone would require considerably large memory, CPU processing speed and battery power to run these proxies. Seeing the evolution of mobile phones these days, these things should not be problem in the days to come.
I visualize two different paths
1) WAN optimization client proxy combined with IPsec client as a offering.
Apart from providing security this offering would give benefits by WAN optimization.
And, the enterprises can restrict the access level to their documents from the remote user.
2) WAN optimization client proxy as a plug-in in the smart phone browsers.
A browser plug-in for WAN optimization in a smart phone can work in hand with browser caching capabilities and can only download the changes for a given file from the WAN optimization device/appliance running in their head office. This also holds good for enterprise laptops who would roam mostly out of their office networks.
In any case, the market would see ADC vendors emerging into smart phone segment.
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