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Raising Media Conversion Management to a New Level

Overview Over the last few years local area network traffic has exploded causing ‘old’ infrastructures to creak under the load. Network managers today are facing a barrage of users making higher and higher demands for more bandwidth. higher demands for more bandwidth. And the big news over the past couple of years has been the migration to Fast Ethernet on those network segments where traffic has been highest – particularly the backbone.

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Publisher	Aura Networks (formerly Lancast)	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2001	Downloads	8
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues

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