WAN

WAN management: New tools and strategies that deliver high performance

When phone, video and data traffic converge (otherwise known as "network convergence"), it complicates the local area network (LAN). This network convergence puts even greater demands on enterprise wide area networks (WANs), especially in terms of bandwidth. Neither monitoring nor managing varied...

Choosing the best WAN optimization vendor

How can you determine the best WAN optimization vendor for your enterprise? You could listen to rehearsed sales pitches from several vendors -- or you could listen to a vendor-neutral analyst like Dr. Jim Metzler on how to

Is new technology hurting your wide area network?

To those managing, building and working on enterprise wide area networks (WANs): I'm pleased to introduce myself as the new site editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com. As I've worked on SearchNetworking.com for the past few years, I've come...

Riverbed eyes Israeli WAN optimization start-up for acquisition, but why?

Oh, how the rumor mill churns! Israeli business publication Globes reports that "sources" say Riverbed Technology Inc. may buy Expand Networks, a Tel Aviv-based fellow WAN...

Managed WAN services: Who you gonna call?

WAN stands for wide area network, right? Since that’s the case, Current Analysis Research Director Brian Washburn believes in going wide or going home if you’re looking for a managed WAN services provider. When it comes to breadth, depth and reach of...

4G LTE wireless broadband to fly in 2010, driving WAN ripple effect

While for a while it looked like the 4G wireless market was going to go all WiMAX all the time because it had a market lead. But LTE technical deployments are gaining serious momentum among wireless operators, according to Infonetics Research's second edition of its biannual

Network security spending driven by cloud computing, managed services

We’ve been asking a lot of questions about network security lately, specifically targeting those companies that are getting more involved in such things as cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), managed services, and other areas where applications and data are more...

Forecast calls for storage, network convergence in SaaS cloud computing

This has been a cloudy summer for most vendors in the WAN optimization and storage business, although it has absolutely nothing to do with the weather.

An increasing number of companies are relying on Web-based applications and software as a service (SaaS) alternatives --...

Pinpoint critical applications when mapping out a WAN plan

In the evolving world of WAN optimization, applications are the new currency in terms of buying into a system that can deliver top performance and is flexible enough to handle changing user demands.  Smart network designers will not only look very carefully at the types of applications that zip...

From the WAN Mailbag: Encryption, MPLS, optimization and more

One of the benefits of online publishing, as...