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A Wide Area Network or WAN is a computer network covering a broad geographical area. Contrast with personal area networks (PANs), local area networks (LANs) or metropolitan area networks (MANs) that are usually limited to a room, building or campus. The largest and most well-known example of a WAN is the Internet. WANs are used to connect local area networks (LANs) together, so that users and computers in one location can communicate with users and computers in other locations. |
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| By : Riverbed |
Published Date: Oct 23, 2007 |
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Don't lag behind. Get the Forrester study "Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World" to learn how deploying a WAN optimization solution can give you consistent access to and performance of all applications, room for the introduction of new business applications, improved availability and disaster preparedness, and more. Get the report.
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| By : CA NVM |
Published Date: Apr 10, 2008 |
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Today, WAN design has two distinct goals. One goal is to ensure that the WAN continues to exhibit utility-like characteristics. The other goal is to ensure that the WAN can also support the key business and application trends by adding sophisticated WAN functionality. This white paper will describe some of the key business, application and network trends in general, and will also discuss how these trends impact certain key industries.
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| By : Riverbed |
Published Date: Apr 03, 2007 |
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What do companies as diverse as Liz Claiborne, Mitsubishi Motors, LG Electronics, and Alstom Power have in common? They have all benefited from the deployment of wide-area data services (WDS) solutions from Riverbed, spectacularly accelerating their network infrastructures. From opening remote files and applications up to 100x faster to dramatically reducing backup and replication time, WDS solved common but vexing infrastructure challenges facing these diverse companies.
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| By : Riverbed |
Published Date: Aug 03, 2007 |
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Learn how Golder created a centralized Intranet over their WAN by deploying the Riverbed Steelhead appliance into their existing Cisco-based network. Golder also beta-tested Steelhead Mobile with their mobile workforce and found significantly improved performance.
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This white paper provides an overview of current challenges in the modern data center, the impact those challenges have on the business, and Stratavia’s approach to solving those problems.
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| By : Raritan |
Published Date: Oct 11, 2007 |
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While the proliferation of branch and remote offices is a positive sign of company growth, it can be a challenge for IT staffers. While many IT staffers use remote access software to diagnose and repair branch office problems, these tools are only useful if the OS and network are functioning. If the network or OS is down, additional costs in travel, time, and lost business might be incurred.
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| By : Riverbed |
Published Date: Dec 08, 2006 |
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Finally – some clarity in the application acceleration and WAN optimization space. Find out how WAFS, WAN optimization, compression, and Web acceleration technologies have come together into one powerful solution: Wide-area Data Services (WDS). Dive into the technical specifics of WDS and understand how it can accelerate and simplify your IT infrastructure.
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| By : Shunra |
Published Date: Feb 07, 2007 |
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"Best Practices for Selecting a WAN Optimization Solution: Benchmarking Performance ROI" includes best practices for defining requirements and comparing alternative solutions, and offers a metric that IT organizations can use to select the WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest value.
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| By : Shunra |
Published Date: Oct 30, 2007 |
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How SAP uses Shunra VE to keep production problems at bay with pre-production testing on the virtual WAN. These testing approaches and methodologies reached far beyond conventional application testing and have become the preferred approach to ensure success. SAP does it, so should you!
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| By : Quocirca |
Published Date: Jun 06, 2007 |
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Wide areas networks (WANs) are essential to the majority of businesses, connecting remote locations and individuals back to centralized IT resources. But as the network is expected to handle more bandwidth intensive applications such as voice and video it is essential to ensure the WAN usage is well managed – eliminating unwanted traffic and accelerating business content.
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| By : Quocirca |
Published Date: Mar 14, 2007 |
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The need to understand how the performance and problems within the technical infrastructure impacts the capabilities of the business is massive. However, the majority of companies can only measure application and specific asset performance, whereas many issues within the infrastructure lie at the transport level, where packet switching presents both great opportunities and major issues.
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Network monitoring software packages require complex installation, ongoing maintenance and additional costs for servers and third-party applications. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) network monitoring alternatives greatly simplify implementation and maintenance, but they rely on uninterrupted Internet access to function, often require complex VPNs or firewall modifications, and typically provide limited access to historical data.
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This research study, led by CFO Research in collaboration with Fiberlink provides valuable insight into how organizations are dealing with sustained growth in the number of mobile workers and the costs associated with managing them.
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Patton Harris and Rust and Associates has 13 branches. Management and IT needed a way to help these offices work on projects together to optimize company resources. Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS gave PHR+A fast file access across branches using minimal system resources. No management is required as it operates in the background and real time byte level differencing not only reduces bandwidth usage and spikes but also the changes are sent as they happen – not when they are needed.
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Jordan & Skala Engineers is a growing company with 5 offices. It needed a scalable solution to optimize their network and their resources as more and more work was distributed across sites. Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS files mirror instantly in real time using byte-level differencing. So as soon as a file is saved or closed, the file deltas appear in every other location on the network. Users are never waiting for files to upload, download, or open across a network.
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This paper explains the numerous places where VoWLAN can go to work, why most offerings fail to make it work, and how only Meru Networks' standard-based solution puts the power of VoWLAN to work at enterprise-scale.
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| By : Signiant |
Published Date: Oct 20, 2005 |
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The Wide Area File Services (WAFS) market consists of products that aim to overcome the problems associated with remote office data processing, including reliable file access, version control, network performance, storage and data protection.
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| By : Quocirca |
Published Date: Jun 09, 2005 |
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Working with technology outside the office brings many challenges. Use of laptops has grown from limited user communities to widespread desktop replacement and broad deployment. The complexity of managing these devices outside the walls of the office is something IT departments have learned to address.
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In 2005, O’Hare International Airport began a project to relocate and modernize a 2.1 million ft.2 runway. Five independent firms worked on the project design with the IT/data management led by Milhouse Engineering and Construction, Inc. Milhouse implemented GlobalSCAPE WAFS which mirrors critical files to all sites. This provided fast local access to all project files automatically without any administrative burden and with no delays.
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Disaster can strike when you least expect it. So how do you back up and maintain control of your data and still provide access to data in a distributed organization? The challenges are clear...large and growing amounts of data need to be distributed across many sites yet complications such as bandwidth usage, file coherence, version consistency, and file latency all result in lost productivity.
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| By : MASERGY |
Published Date: Jul 03, 2007 |
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Organizations of all sizes are evolving to an enlightened, business-focused method of choosing network services and service providers called Total Customer Experience (TCE). This white paper describes the evolution toward a TCE approach and the benefits and clarity that TCE brings to the marketplace.
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Network World reports that enterprises are rapidly adding more branch offices yet must do so with IT budgets that aren’t increasing at the same rate. This is further complicated by the expansion of bandwidth-intensive applications like video conferencing, VoIP phone networks, and the drive for a paperless office. Expansion relying on carrier offerings requires more budget than is generally available.
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| By : MASERGY |
Published Date: Dec 07, 2006 |
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This paper will explore the problems inherent in an overlay management approach and describe a new approach that allows for the management of the wide-area network to be not only offered as a service, but actually embedded in the network itself, resulting in several incremental benefits to the enterprise.
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More and more companies are realizing that their corporate air waves are an asset that requires protection. Strong security policies have been created for wired networks. The same is now needed for the corporate air waves. This paper will discuss the compelling business reasons why an investment in wireless intrusion prevention should be made.
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| By : Aventail |
Published Date: Jun 21, 2006 |
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Disaster recovery is not only needed for catastrophic events like natural disasters or pandemics, but for any event, like a snow storm or power outage that keeps your workers from getting to the office and disrupts your business. This white paper by business continuity expert Tim Clark of Fact Point Group, explores best practices for disaster recovery and the key role of SSL VPNs in that process.
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