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Live Data Center Migration Across WANs: A Robust Cooperative Context Aware Approach
White Papers This paper advocates a cooperative, context-aware approach to data center migration across WANs to deal with outages in a non-disruptive manner. A significant concern for Internet-based service providers is the continued operation and availability...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Lucent Configuration Guidelines For WANs
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to provide to Service Provider's and Corporations a set of general guidelines that can be used for both new and existing Service Provider WANs for providing Voice over IP Centrex systems.
[September 20, 2003, 2:37]
Corporate WANs Get Application Speed Boost
News Mainstream networking vendor Juniper Networks and niche player Silver Peak both released appliances this week aimed at reducing the load on organisations' wide area networks (WANs). The market for such offerings has rocketed in the past three years...
[October 20, 2006, 14:10]
Simplifying Enterprise WANs With Ethernet
White Papers Data demands are driving businesses to upgrade wide area networks (WANs), remote offices and prepare for the convergence of voice and data on a unified network. The incessant demand for Internet bandwidth and applications is outstripping the demand...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Firms Told: Optimise WANs Before Longhorn
News Firms looking to optimise their wide area networks (WANs) should make a short-term investment in external units now rather than waiting for the next version of Windows Server, an analyst has claimed. Senior analyst Eric Siegel of the Burton Group...
[March 30, 2007, 12:26]
NetMotion Mobility Link Optimizations For Wireless WANs
White Papers NetMotion Mobility is designed to operate over intermittent and bandwidth-challenged network links, including wireless WANs. A wireless wide area network (WWAN) characteristically receives and transmits data using radio signals over the initial...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Accelerating Satellite WANs With Riverbed
White Papers Are satellite connections making collaboration across your WAN nearly impossible? That's no surprise, given the high latency and low bandwidth that is endemic to satellite links. Application performance is often very poor, challenging teams around...
[July 28, 2008, 13:56]
A MIMO-OFDM Prototype For Next-Generation Wireless WANs
White Papers Coupled with a robust and efficient OFDM air interface, MIMO technologies lead to a very compelling high-speed data downlink solution for future wireless systems. This paper presents Nortel Networks' MIMO-OFDM concept prototype and measured...
[January 8, 2008, 1:37]
Improving TCP Performance Over Wireless WANs Using TCP/IP-Friendly Link Layer
White Papers This paper proposes the use of a TCP/IP-friendly link level error recovery mechanism with novel design in conjunction with state-of-the-art Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) enhancements to improve TCP performance on network paths involving...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Converged Network Analyzer For Corporate WANs
White Papers Corporate WAN connectivity is one of the most basic - and visible - aspects of information technology. Providing reliable yet affordable corporate WAN connectivity is a particularly challenging task for most CIOs and Infrastructure VPs.
[December 1, 2005, 0:00]
OSU-MAC: A New, Real-Time Medium Access Control Protocol For Wireless WANs With Asymmetric Wireless Links
White Papers Supported under the NSF Special Projects in Communication and Networking, Ohio State University researchers in both the wireless communications and networking areas are working toward achieving significant gains in wireless system performance by...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Wireless LANs Vs. Wireless WANs
White Papers This paper discusses the differences between wireless LAN and wireless WAN, and the two technologies are explained in detail, including: coverage, speeds, security, costs and the different uses of each.
[March 2, 2004, 11:18]
Intel Common System-Level Interface Connecting 10 GbE LANs/WANs To OC-192 MANs
White Papers This white paper is intended to help designers understand the technical capabilities of the unique SPI4-2 standard: its role in the converged communications environment, and its ability to optimize the development of new multi-system solutions.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Datacryptor 2000 Key Management: Secure And Automated Encryption For Wide Area Networks (WANS)
White Papers Encryption is the security technology that protects the privacy of information sent over a network. Encryption changes a data stream of bits from information to something that appears random. Anyone who intercepts the encrypted data gets a data...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Cisco Branches Out For WANs
News Cisco is moving network storage to the branch office. The company on Tuesday announced a new series of products based on technology it acquired from a start-up called Actona. Until now, Cisco has aimed its SAN products at data centres, using...
[December 15, 2004, 12:45]
Integration Of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition Systems Connected To Wide Area Networks
White Papers The Hitachi Group has developed comprehensive WANs-interconnected SCADA systems that fully integrate all the independent power control systems. While preserving the excellent reliability and processing capabilities of Hitachi's existing supervisory...
[December 24, 2004, 2:00]
The Internet: A Solution To The WAN Needs Of Business
White Papers Wide area networks (WANs) have served business well. Today there are growing pressures on WANs, both because sheer volume of information has begun to overload systems, and because their vulnerability to hostile attack is now much greater.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Build QoS Design Overview
White Papers This sample chapter, taken from End-to-End Qos Network Design: Quality of Service in LANs, WANs, and VPNs, provides an overview of the QoS design and deployment process. This sample chapter, taken from End-to-End Qos Network Design: Quality of...
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
Multifractality In TCP/IP Traffic: The Case Against
White Papers The discovery of Long-Range Dependence (a kind of asymptotic fractal scaling) in packet data from LANs and WANs was followed by further work detailing evidence for multifractal behaviour in TCP/IP traffic in WANs.
[January 15, 2008, 1:00]
Using Measurements To Validate Simulation Models Of TCP/IP Over High Speed ATM Wide Area Networks
White Papers Predicting the performance of high speed wide area ATM networks (WANs) is a difficult task. Validation of simulations with measurements is not common; however, it is needed so that simulation models can be used with confidence to accurately...
[January 15, 2008, 0:21]
