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OFDM For High Data Rate, High-Mobility, Wide-Area Wireless Communications
White Papers In recent years, there has been considerable growth in interest in wireless access to wide area data networks at high data rates. This growth has been fuelled by the simultaneous development of the high-speed wired data networks (e.g.the Internet...
[November 2, 2004, 2:00]
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]
GPRS Auto-Configuration In Wireless Wide Area Networks
White Papers Microsoft is investigating a wireless wide area network (WWAN) service that relies on General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) technology for a future version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, code named “Longhorn.
[March 25, 2004, 15:20]
Riverbed RiOS 4.0: Raising The Bar In Wide-Area Data Services (WDS)
White Papers Wide area data services are fundamental technologies for optimizing enterprise WAN without incurring huge capital costs. Enterprises and organizations are continually challenged to weigh their needs for both data security and speed against the...
[July 8, 2008, 15:43]
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]
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) V4.0 Technical Overview
White Papers Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a new solution that facilitates application delivery and infrastructure consolidation while taking advantage of existing capital and operational assets. Enterprise organizations face numerous...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
An Experiment Of Controlling Gigabit Wide Area Ethernet By GMPLS Supporting Layer-2 Switching Capability
White Papers Currently, due to the growth of Ethernet technologies, Ethernet has been deployed in Wide Area Network (WAN) as well as Local Area Network (LAN). Therefore Wide Area Ethernet is focused on as a high performance transport network.
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
NetProfiler: Profiling Wide-Area Networks Using Peer Cooperation
White Papers The aggregated information from multiple hosts allows NetProfiler to profile the wide-area network, i.e.monitor end-to-end performance, and detect and diagnose problems from the perspective of end hosts.
[April 5, 2006, 1:01]
Multiplexing TCP Traffic Over Wide-Area ATM Networks
White Papers This paper explores the effects of network-level multiplexing policies on application-level performance in the context of wide-area networks that carry small fixed-size cells. An ATM network is simulated with traffic sources, traffic sinks, routers...
[January 15, 2008, 0:56]
Measurement Approaches To Evaluate Performance Optimizations For Wide-Area Wireless Networks
White Papers This paper presents measurement approaches to evaluate performance optimizations, employed at different layers of the protocol stack, to enhance application performance over Wide-Area Wireless Networks (WWANs).
[February 21, 2006, 23:00]
Characteristics Of Wide-Area TCP/IP Conversations
White Papers This paper characterizes wide-area network applications that use the TCP transport protocol. It also describes a new way to model the wide-area traffic generated by a stub network. This model is based on trace analysis of TCP/IP wide-area...
[January 15, 2008, 0:56]
Transport Level Optimisations For Streaming Media Over Wide-Area Wireless Networks
White Papers Wide-area cellular data networks (e.g. However, the characteristics of the wide-area wireless links present several new challenges to different applications. This paper focuses on optimization techniques to improve the application performance of...
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
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]
Cisco Wide Area Application Services: Secure, Scalable, And Simple Central Management
White Papers Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provides the technologies necessary to consolidate infrastructure in the data center while also providing application acceleration and WAN optimization capabilities that achieve application delivery...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
Enabling IT Consolidation With ISCSI SANs And Wide-area Data Services (Podcast)
White Papers To set up and manage a consolidated IT infrastructure that shares server and storage resources among distributed branch offices, many companies are turning to a combination of intelligent, enterprise-class iSCSI SANs and Wide-area Data Services.
[December 12, 2007, 10:12]
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]
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]
It Is Not About Bandwidth White Paper: Why Adding Bandwidth Or Compression Does Not Solve The Problem Of Application Performance On Wide Area Networks
White Papers Wide-area client-server applications are a critical part of almost every large enterprise. However, access to widely use and critical infrastructure across WANs is handicapped by very poor throughput and response time when compared to the...
[October 21, 2008, 1:19]
Wide-Area Cooperative Storage With CFS
White Papers The Cooperative File System (CFS) is a new peer-to-peer read-only storage system that provides provable guarantees for the efficiency, robustness, and load-balance of file storage and retrieval. CFS does this with a completely decentralized...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
BT Global Services Ignites Wide-area SOAs
News BT is hoping to make SOAs easier and more reliable for large organisations to deploy with the launch of a managed service for multi-site SOAs. BT Integrate, launched on Tuesday by BT Global Services, allows composite applications to run across...
[April 28, 2006, 15:35]
