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- WAN
- Wide Area Network A long-distance communications network that covers a wide geographic area, such as a state or country. The telephone companies and cellular carriers deploy WANs to...
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- Transforming the Network Edge: Lufthansa Systems and Cisco Unified WAN Services
- This free News@Cisco video reveals how a new approach to router technology helps one of the world's best known airlines soar smoothly into an evolving world. Lufthansa Airlines VP Bardo Werum knows that to keep planes in the air, it's important to keep data flying too. Now, in this video...
- Tags: Router, Network, Lufthansa, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing
- Presentations 2008-03-04
- Cisco Unified WAN Services: Services, Security, Resiliency, and Intelligence
- Cisco Unified WAN Services is an important extension to the Cisco architectural approach to systems deployment. It defines the fundamental requirements for a converged WAN edge solution that enterprise customers need to deploy to address their evolving business objectives. As implemented on the Cisco product line of routers and switches,...
- Tags: Security, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN, Cisco Unified WAN Services
- White papers 2008-02-01
- CWENT - Implementing CiscoWorks for Enterprise LAN/WAN Management v2.5
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis Authorized Cisco course helps you optimize your use of the CiscoWorks LMS and RWAN software suites. In this course, you will learn to capitalize on your investment in CiscoWorks by dramatically improving the operation of your network. Learn the same information as...
- Tags: Device, LAN, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- How Cisco IT Controls Building Security Over the Enterprise WAN
- Several years ago, faced with security systems that were deployed with minimal or no managerial oversight, Cisco began searching for a way to address the need to centralize and improve physical security management. The solution had to address global integration and service and support issues for all these disparate system,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN, Security
- Case studies 2007-12-19
- Cisco ACNS Enables Executives in Europe and Africa to Deliver Timely Video Messages to Employees Without WAN Overload
- The requirements are for targeted fast-turnaround rich media messages from the Cisco EMEA Executive team combining video from different team members, with summaries of important points and with links to more resources. The Cisco EMEA IT Infrastructure team had the challenge of translating these requirements into an architecture that would...
- Tags: Team, ACNS, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Requirement, WAN, Cisco ACNS, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2007-12-17
- How Cisco Uses Content Network WAN to Produce Live Event for Multiple Locations
- When Cisco Systems had just two days to produce a video event for the global sales force, featuring presenters in various locations, the IT group took advantage of the Cisco WAN and streaming MPEG-2 video over IP. This approach avoided the delays and productivity losses that would have resulted if...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN
- Case studies 2007-11-22
- Akamai counters commoditization fears by extending WAN acceleration to business, communications applications
- Akamai counters commoditization fears by extending WAN acceleration to business, communications applicationseveryone is joining the crowd...In my opinion, Riverbed is the best of breed solution for WAN acceleration. I work, as an engineer, for a Cisco partner and we are also partnered with Riverbed, because they have the best...
- Tags: WANs, Network technology, WAN Acceleration, WAN, Riverbed, communications application, Akamai Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Akamai counters commoditization fears by extending WAN acceleration to business, communications applications
- Akamai's announcement this week of much broader acceleration benefits -- to all IP applications, including VOIP -- extends its WAN optimization capabilities into enterprises and out to remote users. The move comes as Akamai is facing perceptions its services are increasingly commodities, and therefore under downward price pressure. ...
- Tags: Application, Akamai Technologies Inc., Service, WAN, Akamai IP Application Accelerator Service, IP Application Accelerator, WANs, Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Talari Networks and enterprise WAN economics
- Here is a claim worth investigating. At DEMOfall 07 Talari Networks introduced a networking technology that it said will do for enterprise WANs what RAID did for storage. The technology can deliver a network with 30 to 100 times the bits per dollar, reducing WAN costs by 40 to 9o...
- Tags: Network, WAN, Talari, Talari Networks T700 Appliance, WANs, Network Technology, Networking, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- KEYMARK INC. Using Vyatta for Wan Edge Connectivity, Security, and LAN Segmentation
- KeyMark is a document management company that is growing rapidly and found itself in need of upgrading its network infrastructure. The planned infrastructure upgrade required a solution that would scale easily and affordably to deliver higher port density, firewall security, LAN segmentation, and multiple connectivity options to ensure it was...
- Tags: KeyMark Inc., WAN, Vyatta, LANs, Network Technology, Networking, Security
- Case studies 2007-08-30
- Disaster Recovery Simplified: iSCSI and WAN Go the Distance
- This on-demand Webcast explores how you can overcome a variety of disaster recovery challenges. Topics include: Planning effectively for catastrophic failures Eliminating application downtime and business disruption Restoring quickly and successfully from a disaster How to minimize your DR costs
- Tags: iSCSI, EqualLogic, WAN, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- Webcasts 2007-08-21
- Optimize WAN and LAN Application Performance With TCP Express
- For organizations looking to improve the capacity and performance of their infrastructure, the BIGIP Local Traffic Manager provides a unique solution that transparently makes every connecting client and server work more efficiently. F5's unique TCP Express delivers unmatched, real-world network and application performance improvements and offers organizations an unprecedented level...
- Tags: LAN, F5 Networks Inc., Performance, TCP, WAN, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Hierarchical Model Based LAN Architecture & VSAT-Based WAN for a National Telemedicine Network in a Developing Country: Case of Ethiopia
- Due to difficult terrain and limited transportation infrastructures, developing countries continue to suffer from the absence of extended and adequate medical and healthcare services. This inadequacy in basic health services is often accompanied by very low patient-doctor ratios. It has been suggested that telemedicine offers a basis for a cost-effective...
- Tags: LAN, Developing Country, Network, Health Care, WAN, VSAT, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance
- White papers 2007-03-29
- Shipping Firm Centralizes IT With Data Center Network and WAN
- Every day, over 14,000 employees at The Panalpina Group, in 500 offices around the world, are focused on getting their customers' freight to the right location at the right time. The Panalpina Group wanted to shift IT spending from systems maintenance to delivery of innovation and avoid US$500,000 in capital...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Improving TCP Performance Over Wireless WANs Using TCP/IP-Friendly Link Layer
- This paper proposes the use of a TCP/IP-friendly link level error recovery mechanism with novel design in conjunction with state-of-the-art Transmission Control Protocol TCP enhancements to improve TCP performance on network paths involving Wireless Wide-Area Network (W-WAN) links. It shows that by combining a selected set of TCP enhancements TCP...
- Tags: Wireless WAN, TCP, WAN, Wireless, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Performance Measurements and Analysis of TCP Flows in a Differentiated Services WAN
- This paper presents results from performance measurements carried out in a Differentiated Services WAN connecting three major cities in Southern Finland. The target of the measurements was to collect precise information about the level of service, experienced by a user transmitting files with FTP in a network that implements service...
- Tags: Performance, Network, Traffic, TCP, Analysis, WAN, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Use this template to create your own ready-to-use Cisco 851W or 871W configuration (static IP WAN implementations)
- This template goes hand in hand with the second installment in our Cisco tutorial series, "Configuring the Cisco 851W or 871W: Standard IOS." The template makes it easy to document and create CLI configuration files. You just plug in the appropriate values for a list of variables and click a...
- Tags: IP, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN
- Download resources 2006-09-18
- Gaitame.com Co. Improves WAN Data Transfer Rates by 20x Using F5's WANJet
- Gaitame.com Co. LTD. is a financial futures transaction firm specializing in on-line services for individual investors. The company deals with eight currencies and provides users with real-time information on the world's exchange markets as well as transaction services. It built a disaster recovery site in Okinawa, and established a system...
- Tags: F5 Networks Inc., WAN, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Databases, Data Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2006-09-14
- Verizon Business Resilient Network Attached Storage Service First U.S. Provider to Incorporate New Capability Combining WAN Optimization, Application Acceleration and File-Sharing Functionality
- Verizon Business is the first U.S.-based provider to utilize the Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS solution to enhance its Resilient Network Attached Storage RNAS offering, a service that helps businesses manage and store data for remote locations. The addition of the Cisco WAAS solution into its RNAS platform enabled...
- Tags: NAS, Optimization, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., File-sharing, WAN, Verizon Business, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Peer To Peer (P2P), Hardware, Internet
- Case studies 2006-09-05
- LDMA and WLDMA: Load Balancing Strategies for Distributed LAN and WAN Environments
- This paper introduces a new load balancing algorithms, called LDMA (Load balancing using Decentralized decision-making Mobile Agents) and WLDMA WAN Load balancing using Decentralized decision making Mobile Agents which distributes load among local and geographically distributed web servers connected in a mesh topology, by a communications network. The performance of...
- Tags: LAN, Mobile, Load Balancing, Decision-making, WAN, Network Technology, Tools & Techniques, Networking, Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
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