aCelera has distinguished itself by its availability as a physical appliance from 10Mbps to 1Gbps throughput, as well as its software-based WAN optimization capabilities that support functionality such as compression, deduplication, HTTP, TCP, Common Intern File System (CIFS), Messaging APO (MAPI), Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), traffic shaping and quality of service (QoS). In addition, aCelera is available as a hardware or a virtual appliance for VMware ESX/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Windows Server 2008 R2, addressing the demands of the growing types of application deployments.