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The Next-Generation Enterprise WAN Aggregation Router

Overview Businesses are increasingly reliant on their Wide Area Networks (WANs). The quality, security, and reliability of communications between headquarters locations and branch offices, customers and suppliers, as well as the wider Internet are increasingly tied to overall business performance. With the growth of advanced services such as voice and video over IP, mobile data connectivity, remote application access, and unification of wire line and wireless networks, the head end router is being asked to perform a wider variety of functions than ever before.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IDG (International Data Group)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2008	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching, Wide Area Networks (WAN)

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