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Remote Monitoring Solutions For Wide- Area Networks: A Comprehensive WAN Monitoring Strategy For Enterprise Networks
White Papers WAN links are typically the most expensive part of the network, and bandwidth allocation can be complex. Monitoring the WAN links thus becomes very critical. However, there are no standards for the WAN.
[December 3, 2003, 23:00]
ESG Lab Field Audit: Riverbed Wide-area Data Services - Complimenting Existing LAN And WAN Infrastructure From Cisco
White Papers Many companies have successfully implemented Riverbed WDS solutions within their Cisco networks. This ESG Lab Field Audit documents the success that these Riverbed customers have experienced with a focus on configurations and installation experiences.
[May 7, 2008, 0:00]
Technical Paper: What Is A WAN (Wide Area Network) ?
White Papers Whereas a LAN (local area network) is a network that links computers, printers and other devices located in an office, a building or even a campus, a WAN (wide area network) is a system that extends for greater distances and is used to connect...
[July 13, 2004, 0:00]
Juniper Pits 'Pepsi' Against Cisco's 'Coke'
News Cisco currently dominates the wide area network (WAN) router market with its 2600 router. WAN access routers sit on a customer's network and provide access to the Internet and other wide area services.
[March 9, 2004, 11:45]
Cisco Faces Competition Over WAN Optimisation
News WAN optimisation is the generic name for a group of technologies that helps companies reduce the amount of traffic passing across their wide area network. One of the key additions is the fact that Riverbed's WAN optimisation controller, called the...
[February 25, 2008, 11:34]
The Status Of The 10-Gigabit Ethernet Standard
White Papers Ten-gigabit Ethernet is designed for use in two major applications: firstly, local area networks (LAN) and, secondly, connection to SONET/SDH-based wide area networks (WAN). The four port types being specified for LAN applications and the three for...
[November 1, 2004, 23:00]
Expand Networks Accelerates And Secures Disaster Recovery Efforts For Hunterdon Healthcare System
White Papers Hunterdon Healthcare System has chosen Expand Networks, a leader in applications acceleration over the Wide-Area Network (WAN), to support its disaster recovery efforts. Expand's Accelerators and TCP (Transmission/Transport Control Protocol...
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
Understanding Application Traffic Management
White Papers For years, when network managers encountered bottlenecks on their local- and wide-area networks, the common solution was to throw bandwidth at the problem by adding extra WAN circuits or larger LAN pipes.
[April 2, 2004, 0:00]
Wide-Area Data Services - It’s Not About Bandwidth
White Papers Find out how a comprehensive Wide-Area Data Services (WDS) solution from Riverbed Technology can radically improve throughput to make your WAN perform like a LAN. Contrary to popular belief, poor application performance over wide area networks...
[May 13, 2005, 0:00]
Wide Area Data Services: Optimizing The Branch
White Papers Find out how a comprehensive Wide-Area Data Services (WDS) solution from Riverbed Technology can radically improve throughput to make your WAN perform like a LAN. Contrary to popular belief, poor application performance over wide area networks...
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
Application Performance And The Bandwidth Bottleneck Blues
White Papers But ever since the Web became standard corporate capability, predictability of application performance over WAN links has degraded. This Aberdeen White Paper examines issues faced by IT management and communications service providers when...
[April 2, 2004, 0:00]
Hawaii Safeguards Schools Statewide Using Intrusion Protection Systems From TippingPoint
White Papers The notorious Blaster worm struck the local area network (LAN) of one of its 275 K-12 schools and spread like wildfire across the district's Wide Area Network (WAN). HIDOE's schools rely heavily on its wired and wireless LAN/WAN infrastructure for...
[October 20, 2006, 0:00]
Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS)
White Papers The second trend is the decreasing cost and high-bandwidth potential of fiber media, making support of such applications over a wide-area network (WAN) viable. The SIP is based on an IEEE standard protocol for metropolitan-area networks (MANs...
[July 23, 2007, 0:00]
Standards Spat Could Cause MPLS Downtime
News Small and medium businesses and remote and branch offices of large businesses especially like Ethernet and IP MPLS VPNs because they offer considerably more bandwidth with little or no increased WAN costs.
[September 6, 2007, 13:30]
Broadcom Acquires NewPort For $1.2bn
News Broadcom said the deal will allow it to offer optical communications OEMs and laser module suppliers with a broader portfolio of optical and wide area network (WAN) infrastructure products, including transceivers, framers, communications...
[August 14, 2000, 14:08]
Wireless Data Security
White Papers Wireless Wide Area Networks (WAN) are a popular method of wirelessly accessing data over the Internet. A major concern for many corporate users of wireless WANs is data security and how to protect data that is transmitted over these wireless networks.
[September 30, 2003, 0:00]
Poster Abstract: Seastar Underwater Acoustic Local Area Network
White Papers The Seaweb Wide-Area Network (WAN) concept provides for Local-Area Networks (LANs) having a sophisticated central node that collects and fuses undersea data from a set of relatively simple peripheral nodes.
[December 5, 2007, 23:00]
Metro Ethernet As A Wide Area Technology And Why It Must Be Secured
White Papers A MAN sits between a Local Area Network (LAN) and a Wide Area Network (WAN) to enable sharing of resources across a region. Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) have emerged as a key network infrastructure among enterprises looking to connect their...
[June 30, 2006, 0:00]
X.25 White Paper
White Papers In the 1970s, a set of protocols was needed to provide users with wide-area network (WAN) connectivity across public data networks (PDNs). Users contract with the common carriers to use their packet-switched networks (PSNs) and are charged based on...
[October 30, 2003, 23:00]
Case Study: Peribit Networks - Flash Product Demonstration
White Papers Peribit Networks, Inc.the developer of patent-pending bandwidth optimization products that dramatically improve Wide-Area Network (WAN) performance, engaged Busse Design to create a Flash presentation that was compelling, illustrative, and...
[October 13, 2006, 0:00]
