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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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- The Impact of Virtualization on Application Delivery Over the WAN
- Although virtualization has received a lot of attention in the trade publications over the last couple of years, it is not a new concept. IT organizations have been implementing virtualized technologies such as Virtual LANs VLANs and Virtual Private Networks VPNs for at least twenty years. Most of the recent...
- Tags: VLAN, WAN, Streamcore, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, LANs, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Storage, Networking
- White papers 2009-05-09
- Overcoming the Challenges of WAN Application Delivery
- Today's Small-to-Medium size Enterprises SME rely heavily on their business applications being sent reliably over the Internet, outside of their LAN. These applications can include inventory, customer relationship management, sales, accounting and other critical applications that are the livelihood of a company's operations. Therefore, quick and reliable delivery of these...
- Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, WAN, Ecessa, Smb/Sme, Telecommuting, Networking, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software
- White papers 2009-02-10
- Managed File Transfers: Beyond WAN Optimization for Digital Media
- The ability to accelerate the movement of files is only one aspect of a digital media distribution solution. Without the ability to manage the movement of content and to sequence that movement through a series of coordinated steps designed to accomplish specific workflows, digital media supply chains will not be...
- Tags: Signiant Inc., Optimization, WAN, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2009-01-08
- Mobility Services Platform (MSP) Using MSP in Wide Area Networks (Carriers)
- Wireless Data as a commercial carrier offering has adopted various wireless standards and has evolved over time with technology improvements in what are called "Generations", or "G" (i.e. 1G, 2G, etc). With each technology improvement introduces higher data rates, additional features, and network enhancements. In the United States the largest...
- Tags: Network, Mobility, WAN, Carrier, GSM Data Service, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Sweden's HL Display Picks Expand Networks for Server Centralisation and Faster WAN
- HL Display's partner, IT consultancy XLENT, operates the firm's network and handles the distribution of programmes. However, many of the smaller offices lack IT technicians, which have caused problems with handling local servers. Each part of the group has a back-up server but all email has been routed via the...
- Tags: Expand Networks Inc., WAN, HL Display, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-04-30
- How to Be Successful With WAN Application Delivery: Mapping Optimization Techniques to Applications
- Ensuring acceptable application performance has become an important goal for virtually all IT organizations. In spite of its importance, few IT organizations claim that they have successfully achieved this goal. This white paper identifies some of the general hurdles that IT organizations have to overcome in order to achieve this...
- Tags: Technique, Optimization, Information Technology, Application Performance, Organization, WAN, Strategy, Productivity, Management
- White papers 2008-03-14
- 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
- Decoupling Wide-Area Networks From Vacuum Tubes in Multicast Approaches
- In recent years, much research has been devoted to the visualization of superblocks; on the other hand, few have evaluated the analysis of Boolean logic. In fact, few biologists would disagree with the emulation of information retrieval systems, which embodies the robust principles of networking. WEB, the new system for...
- Tags: Network, Stanford University, Information Retrieval, WAN
- White papers 2008-01-30
- ISCW - Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks
- View Available Dates and LocationsLearn to secure the network environment using existing Cisco IOS security features and configure the three primary components of the Cisco IOS Firewall Feature set (Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System [IPS], and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting [AAA]). In this task-oriented course,...
- Tags: Cisco IOS, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- Advanced Indexing Techniques for Wide-Area Network Monitoring
- Detecting and unraveling incipient coordinated attacks on Internet resources requires a distributed network monitoring infrastructure. Such an infrastructure will have two logically distinct elements: distributed monitors that continuously collect packet and flow-level information, and a distributed query system that allows network operators to efficiently and rapidly access this information. The...
- Tags: University Of Southern California, Network, Monitoring, Distributed Network, WAN, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Riverbed WAN Acceleration for Isilon IQ
- Isilon Systems, the leader in clustered storage, and Riverbed Technology, the technology and market leader in Wide-area Data Services WDS, have formed an alliance that enables enterprise customers to create next-generation, virtualized data centers using the latest innovations in storage and networking. Utilizing Isilon's clustered storage systems in combination with...
- Tags: Isilon Systems, Riverbed Technology Inc., WAN, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 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., WAN, Cisco ACNS, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- 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
- Using Vyatta for WAN Edge Connectivity, Security, and LAN Segmentation
- As the KeyMark business and network traffic load grew, its network infrastructure was becoming increasingly taxed. Using a Cisco 1720 for its initial network build-out created a situation where KeyMark owned proprietary hardware that would not meet its planned network requirements in terms of performance and throughput, available interfaces, and...
- Tags: Security, KeyMark Inc., LAN, Network, WAN, Vyatta, Networking
- Case studies 2007-08-30
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