Cisco Faces Competition Over WAN Optimisation
News One of the key additions is the fact that Riverbed's WAN optimisation controller, called the Steelhead, is now able to optimise Microsoft Exchange 2007 traffic. Riverbed claims that Office 2007-based email traffic can now be delivered in one-tenth...
[February 25, 2008, 11:34]
Cisco Pushes WAN Optimisation
News WAN optimisation is an key challenge for some companies, who want to allow employees to access corporate services from anywhere on the network. Rich Link, Cisco's European sales manager for wide area application services, said that Cisco had "quite...
[September 7, 2006, 14:05]
Cisco Pushes WAN Optimisation
Talkback Citrix is a storage company? Huh. Who whoulda thunk it?
[September 7, 2006, 22:36]
Aberdeen Group: Best In Class Organisations Use Packeteers WAN Optimisation Solutions
White Papers Independent research from the Aberdeen Group shows that the most successful enterprises are reaping the benefits of the Packeteer solution and are using it for competitive advantage. Download the full report to find out why.
[May 2, 2008, 0:00]
Microsoft Deal Produces Branch-office Appliance
News Packeteer is supplying WAN optimisation, application visibility and prioritisation technologies, while Microsoft is offering its Windows Server, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and System Management Server (SMS).
[May 8, 2007, 16:49]
Network Managers Have To Do More With Less
News While tighter financial controls are forcing IT departments to keep a lid on network costs, cost-saving measures elsewhere may be putting more strain on the WAN, warned Peribit, the network optimisation company that commissioned the Global...
[March 21, 2005, 15:30]
Corporate WANs Get Application Speed Boost
News Earlier this month, analyst company Gartner released detailed analysis of the WAN optimisation market. Juniper's WAN optimisation kit is in place at John Lewis, Surrey County Council and London Underground.
[October 20, 2006, 14:10]
Cisco Fleshes Out 'Data Center 3.0' Strategy
News Cisco's trusted WAN optimisation software, also introduced on Tuesday, is being billed by the company as the "first trusted WAN optimisation solution", which includes WAN acceleration and application performance management.
[July 25, 2007, 16:49]
Citrix Makes Evergreen WAN Union With Microsoft
News It uses the benefits the server has got and puts in the WAN optimisation," he said. Working with Microsoft, Citrix has developed a product which will allow branch offices to take advantage of wide area network optimisation without removing the...
[February 19, 2008, 10:15]
IT Pros Get To Grips With WAN Reports
News Cisco and NetQoS are working on embedding measurement software into Cisco's WAN optimisation devices, called Cisco WAAS. The availability of such metrics should mean IT professionals can decide where on their network WAN optimisation devices are...
[July 24, 2007, 20:00]
Firms Told: Optimise WANs Before Longhorn
News He said his advice had been prompted by speaking to a variety of Burton Group clients who had been planning to roll out some form of WAN optimisation over the next year or two, and were expecting the result to last for 10 years.
[March 30, 2007, 12:26]
Is A Satellite-based WAN Connection Right For You?
Talkback There are many TCP/IP optimisation methods avaiable to deal with "long delay thin pipe" but we find that nowadays a windows PC "out of the box" will acheive around 128k throughput with normal satellite delay without any tuning or special...
[April 15, 2004, 21:01]
Microsoft Targets Branch Offices With Comms Bundle
News Dave Cote, chief executive officer at Packeteer, said: "This branch office promotion puts [Microsoft's] full offering of WAN optimisation and branch services technology in reach of all distributed enterprises, no matter what their size or budget.
[January 25, 2007, 16:01]
Peribit Upgrades Network Optimisation Range
News Peribit has also upgraded its network optimisation operating system, called SRS. Peribit's SM-500 networking appliance, which it calls a sequence mirror, is designed to cut down on the amount of data that needs to be sent across a WAN.
[June 30, 2004, 17:35]
Cisco Branches Out For WANs
News Actona, and several other companies such as DiskSites, Tacit Networks and Riverbed Technology aim to overcome this issue through a combination of techniques including data compression, remote data caching, and the optimisation of protocols and...
[December 15, 2004, 12:45]
