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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]
Implementing RDM in a Wide Area Network
White Papers Remote Deployment Manager (RDM) is an effective tool for deployment in a Wide Area Network (WAN). This environment was a key design point for RDM. The idea is to initiate deployment work from the office, even though the target systems may be in...
[April 21, 2007, 1:00]
Deploying Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004 in a TCP/IP Wide Area Network
White Papers The IP-DLC link service of Host Integration Server 2004 enables you to connect directly to IBM mainframe computers through a pure TCP/IP wide area network or local area network. This paper describes how the IP-DLC (Internet Protocol-Data Link...
[October 16, 2004, 3:00]
Financial Institution Selects Hitachi Solution for Its Migration to a Wide Area Ethernet Network Using Hierarchical Bandwidth Shaping
White Papers Financial Institution wanted to integrate three separate legacy ATM and leased line based Wide Area Networks (WAN) to a new Wide Area Ethernet network to connect their Headquarters, Network Center and 160 Branch Offices, while managing bandwidth...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
TSG Create a Secure Wide Area Network With Zen's IP VPN
White Papers This leading edge Wide Area Networking (WAN) solution provided a secure virtual network dedicated to TSG within Zen's core infrastructure. Each TSG location had an ADSL circuit providing internet access with on-site firewalls configured to create...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
VAR Effectively Serves State-Wide Geographic Area With Reduced Truck Rolls
White Papers IntraSect Technologies deployed PCs with Intel Core processor with vPro technology in a distributed production network to see how the built-in remote-management technology in the PCs would help improve services and reduce costs.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
HAWAII: A Domain-Based Approach for Supporting Mobility in Wide-Area Wireless Networks
White Papers Also, mobile hosts retain their network address while moving within the domain, simplifying QoS support. Mobile-IP is the current standard for supporting macro-mobility of mobile hosts. However, in the case of micro-mobility support, there are...
[August 10, 2007, 10:57]
Making Wide-Area, Multi-Site MPI Feasible Using Xen VM
White Papers Although multi-site MPI execution has been criticized in the past as being "Impractical" due to limitations in network latency and bandwidth, the authors believe many of the obstacles can be overcome by various means for wider classes of...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
WAN Optimization using Wide Area Data Services
White Papers Wide Area Data Services is a breakthrough concept in WAN optimization that addresses the 3 key problems which limit network and application performance. In this Flash demonstration, you will see how Riverbed Steelhead appliances tackle the most...
[April 7, 2009, 9:51]
Webcast: Why "Ethernet Everywhere" is Coming, and How it Must Be Secured
White Papers Ethernet has transcended its Local Area Network (LAN) origins. Our featured guests will be Ron Young, founding chairman of the Metro Ethernet Forum and cofounder of industry pioneer Yipes Communications, and SafeNet's VP of enterprise security Andy...
[April 20, 2006, 9:42]
HP takes ProCurve to branch offices
News HP is taking its Procurve networking line of network routers out to branch offices with the addition of wide area network (WAN) capabilities. Jon Wetherall, HP's ProCurve country manager for the UK and Ireland, said the decision to extend ProCurve...
[February 22, 2005, 17:20]
Cisco Wide Area Application Services Performance Optimization for SolidWorks
White Papers The SolidWorks family of 3D CAD applications, like many applications, is subject to degrading performance when used in Wide Area Network (WAN) environments. Cisco WAAS is able to significantly improve the performance of SolidWorks over the Wide...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
BT launches managed WAN optimisation service
News BT is now offering its corporate customers a fully managed wide-area-network optimisation service, as well as an applications-performance monitoring service. Both are cases of BT reselling existing services as part of its managed-IT-services...
[November 24, 2008, 13:28]
Collaborative Downloading for Multi-Homed Wireless Devices
White Papers Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with multiple network interfaces: Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) interfaces for local connectivity and Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) interfaces for wide-area connectivity.
[May 24, 2007, 1:00]
Comparing Frame Relay and Network VPN Solutions
White Papers The plethora of wide area network (WAN) options available continues to grow as technology advances. The paper focuses on the two primary WAN options used today: frame relay and network-based IP virtual private networks (IP VPNs).
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
Cisco pushes WAN optimisation
News Cisco has launched a network module which it claims will make it easier for IT managers to speed up access to data across a wide area network (WAN). Cisco's network module, which was announced on Tuesday, boosts data packet transfer rates by...
[September 7, 2006, 14:05]
Juniper pits 'Pepsi' against Cisco's 'Coke'
News Juniper Networks is working on a low-end wide area network router designed to compete with Cisco Systems' 2600 router. Cisco currently dominates the wide area network (WAN) router market with its 2600 router.
[March 9, 2004, 11:45]
Citrix makes Evergreen WAN union with Microsoft
News Working with Microsoft, Citrix has developed a product which will allow branch offices to take advantage of wide area network optimisation without removing the branch server. The company has worked together with Microsoft to take wide area network...
[February 19, 2008, 10:15]
Sun plans 'computer free' HQ
News Sun has decided to take the thin-client model to its logical extreme and move an entire UK branch office to thin clients running over a wide area network (WAN). The Wan Ray will work in a similar way but over a wide area network and does away with...
[January 23, 2004, 11:50]
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Egress Methods
White Papers Web Cache Communication Protocol Version 2 (WCCPv2) gives IT organizations mechanism to transparently intercept and redirect network traffic to a nearby network device, such as a Cisco Wide Area Application Engine (WAE) Appliances running Cisco...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
