Gartner Report: Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers

Laying the foundations for evolving eGovernment: Why next generation Ethernet technology holds the key

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The UK Government has committed to transform the public sector by making truly e-enabled delivery of public services a reality.This whitepaper demonstrates with real-life examples of successful projects how next generation...

• Publisher:
• NTL Business

• Tags:
• ethernet,
• robust,
• transform,
• ethernet

Performance Brief: Mobile Application Acceleration

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Steelhead Mobile accelerates applications for remote users to improve productivity and collaboration for globally distributed teams. Organizations and workers have come to expect a dip in productivity when accessing IT...

• Publisher:
• Riverbed

• Tags:
• lan - wan standards,
• remote users,
• bandwidth,
• constraints

Gartner Report: Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers

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This Gartner Magic Quadrant Report evaluates Blue Coat WAN Optimization solutions against competing products based on each company's Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Available here as a free...

• Publisher:
• Blue Coat Systems

• Tags:
• lan - wan standards,
• optimization,
• wan,
• controllers

Product Specs: ProCurve Access Control Server 745wl

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The ProCurve Access Control Server 745wl, working in conjunction with either the ProCurve Switch xl Access Controller Module or ProCurve Access Controller 720wl, provides a specialized, highly secure wireless access...

• Publisher:
• Hewlett-Packard (HP)

• Tags:
• lan - wan standards,
• environments,
• controller,
• procurve

A Distributed Video Server Architecture for Flexible Enterprise-Wide Video Delivery

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Enterprises need not only a multi-function product but a robust, scalable one. Full of (justifiable) fear of network downtime, network managers normally want to deploy new applications in small workgroups...

• Publisher:
• Cisco Systems

• Tags:
• lan - wan standards,
• cd rom,
• function,
• managers

Gartner Report: Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers

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This Gartner Magic Quadrant Report evaluates Blue Coat WAN Optimization solutions against competing products based on each company's Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Available here as a free...

• Publisher:
• Blue Coat Systems

• Tags:
• lan - wan standards,
• optimization,
• wan,
• controllers

WAN Application Performance: Survey Results & Trend Analysis

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This Blue Coat white paper highlights the findings of a December 2006 survey of over 1,300 IT executives. The purpose of the survey was to identify current computing trends and...

• Publisher:
• Blue Coat Systems

• Tags:
• lan - wan standards,
• survey,
• traffic,
• wan

Accelerating File Services Applications

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This white paper highlights two problems that stem from the design of Microsoft's Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol: The fact that CIFS is too chatty to run across a...

• Publisher:
• Blue Coat Systems

• Tags:
• local area networks (lan),
• caching,
• coat,
• cifs

End-point security clamour sparks Blue Coat deal

Web security firm Blue Coat has bought end-point security provider Premeo in a $60.8m deal. Brian NeSmith, CEO of Blue Coat, attributed this to the increasing need among enterprises for such solutions as they move towards an ever more mobile...

• Channel:
• Security Strategy
• Tags:
• end point,
• data security,
• security,
• computer security

Speeding up the net - is it possible?

Other vendors such as Blue Coat provide multiple capabilities - allowing the bad stuff to be stopped and the good stuff sent on its way - in a single appliance. Find out more in Quocirca's freee white paper A Short Guide to a Fast WAN.

• Channel:
• LANs
• Tags:
• public internet,
• vpn,
• wan

Time wasters - WAN are you going to learn?'

And many are waking up to the potential benefits of handing over the running of their WAN. The survey revealed 61 per cent of companies in the UK currently outsource the running of their WAN and that figure is still growing.

• Channel:
• LANs
• Tags:
• sirocom,
• vanco

WAN managers slow to converge

The survey of 650 European WAN managers found that only 23 per cent pass voice traffic over their private WAN and a further 10 per cent subscribe to a voice virtual private network. IDC's annual WAN manager survey is due out in June.

• Channel:
• Broadband & ISPs

AT&T seals E4.8m airline WAN deal

AT&T has won a E4.8m contract to provide Finnish airline Finnair with a global wide area network (WAN). The WAN uses an Internet Protocol virtual private network (IP VPN) with managed data network services running over a common platform.

• Channel:
• Telecoms
• Tags:
• finnair,
• at&t

3Com re-jig leads to sale of LAN and WAN assets

3Com will this year dispose of its enterprise LAN and WAN corporate business due to lack of growth and the amount of cash needed to bring it in line with the rest of the company, according to Bruce Claflin, president and chief operating officer at...

• Channel:
• Broadband & ISPs