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  • WAN optimization market shakeup predicted

    Posted January 19, 2012 - 12:26 pm

    WAN optimization is shaping up to be one of the hottest areas of the network equipment market, prompting industry experts to predict high-profile acquisitions and vendor shakeups in the near future.

  • Migrating from T1 to fiber WAN

    Posted December 7, 2011 - 10:16 am

    Migrating from multisite MPLS to 100Mbps Ethernet can save you a bundle; here's how.

  • How to reduce WAN costs

    Posted December 16, 2010 - 8:20 am

    There are basically two ways to cut WAN costs: reduce the amount of bandwidth used or find somebody who sells cheaper bandwidth.

  • Time for your company to consider cable?

    Posted December 1, 2010 - 9:20 pm

    A few years back, I predicted that a cable company would supply the lion's share of WAN services to a Fortune 100 company within the year. Still hasn't happened, but there are increasing signs that 2011 could be the start of cable as a serious contender in the enterprise arena.

  • Supersize your WAN

    Posted November 16, 2010 - 3:02 pm

    Inexpensive SMB/branch office routers deliver advanced performance and security features.

  • How to improve WAN performance

    Posted November 1, 2010 - 11:03 am

    The performance of applications across the WAN are beset by a range of problems – latency, congestion, chatty applications, contention with other apps, low bandwidth – that can be addressed in a variety of ways.

  • The new WAN architecture: a blueprint

    Posted October 7, 2010 - 7:51 pm

    If you're struggling to rearchitect your WAN to handle unprecedented growth, you're not alone. Enterprise organizations are gearing up for a bandwidth tsunami.

  • Review

    Xincom XC-DPG603: Easy routing for SMBs

    Posted August 9, 2010 - 1:42 pm

    This is the top of the three-member DPG family from Xincom, but Xincom's other products are also multi-WAN units. Its top end X16-R supports up to eight broadband connections, and its ParaLynx 70G includes wireless support.

  • Review

    Review: Riverbed Steelhead rules the WAN

    Posted May 5, 2010 - 10:49 am

    Riverbed's RiOS 6 continues the tradition of WAN performance gains while improving flexibility, ease, and application support

  • The cloud may not be the Internet

    Posted February 3, 2010 - 8:56 am

    In our last newsletter we distinguished between public and private cloud computing and discussed some of the challenges associated with supporting both forms of cloud computing over a WAN. In this newsletter we will continue that discussion and will also discuss how IT organizations intend to respond to those challenges.

  • 10 Gigabit data center switch shootout

    Posted January 20, 2010 - 10:32 am

    10 Gigabit switches move faster, scale higher

  • Your WAN diagram had better include Starbucks

    Posted November 23, 2009 - 6:25 pm

    When a laptop connects to an open wireless network at (name your coffee shop of choice), your organization is inherently accepting all of the network vulnerabilities of that hotspot. There's a lot you can't control. But here are 5 things you can - and should - do.

  • Mobile WAN operators raise 'openness' bar

    Posted October 9, 2009 - 8:44 pm

    It was a productive week for mobile WANs, with AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint all making announcements that broke new ground for the licensed operators.

  • Network in budget lockdown? No problem for this prison system

    Posted September 10, 2009 - 9:22 pm

    State government IT budgets are as tight as ever, but the Nevada Department of Corrections is in a good position to hunker down and ride out the recession thanks to a recent network upgrade.

  • Riverbed to buy Mazu for analysis tools

    Posted January 21, 2009 - 9:49 am

    Riverbed will acquire Mazu Networks to add application performance analysis to its offerings, allowing enterprises and carriers to measure the benefits of WAN optimization.

  • Ways to recession-proof your WAN

    Posted October 30, 2008 - 8:08 pm

    Unless you're in one of those rare industries that thrives in recessions, that means it's batten-down-the-hatches time. In anticipation of the grimness, here are some tips for keeping your WAN spending under control.

  • Five ways to bulk up your network for telecommuters

    Posted October 22, 2008 - 10:00 am

    A review of five of the most important techniques, technologies and practices that companies can adopt to bolster their telecommuter WAN performance, and whether they should look outside their own in-house IT departments to meet some of these challenges.

  • Crafting a WAN? Consider the edges

    Posted July 31, 2008 - 4:18 pm

    The real challenge that trips up IT execs, more often than not, is the "everything else" category: full- or part-time telecommuters, branch offices in remote locations that can't connect to the main WAN, and mobile services. Not only are these edge sites the trickiest to manage, they can also generate as much as 40% of the overall WAN cost. Worse, branch-office support can consume as much as 35% of all IT support costs.
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