A Wide Area Network or WAN is a computer network covering a broad geographical area. Contrast with personal area networks (PANs), local area networks (LANs) or metropolitan area networks (MANs) that are usually limited to a room, building or campus. The largest and most well-known example of a WAN is the Internet. WANs are used to connect local area networks (LANs) together, so that users and computers in one location can communicate with users and computers in other locations.
Frost & Sullivan review the limitations associated with a single-provider approach to MPLS networks and its impact on the enterprise. They examine Virtela's Global Service Fabric - a multi-carrier network approach that provides a best-of-breed global MPLS network solution.
White Paper Published By: Cisco
Published Date: Dec 04, 2015
This design guide summary provides you with an overview of the Cisco Intelligent WAN Design Guide, the key technology, the use cases it provides, and additional and related resources.
White Paper Published By: Cisco
Published Date: Jun 10, 2015
This design guide summary provides you with an overview of the Cisco Intelligent WAN Design Guide, the key technology, the use cases it provides, and additional and related resources.
Webinar Published By: Cisco
Published Date: Jun 03, 2015
As demands for “right here, right now” information sharing continue to rise, today's organizations are taking a hard look at their branch and remote locations, where performance and service enablement have always been a primary indicator of companywide productivity.
In this episode, the TechWiseTV team takes a dive deep into the innovations and opportunities made possible by Cisco's new 4000 family of Integrated Services Routers. Learn how the architecture and new features that make up this exciting addition to Cisco's router portfolio are bringing more exciting new levels of integration, performance, and productivity to the branch office than ever before.
White Paper Published By: Cisco
Published Date: Apr 10, 2015
A white paper outlining Cisco’s recommendations on how to modernize the existing E-Rate Program to put high-speed broadband into the hands of every student in America.
Free Offer Published By: NEC
Published Date: Nov 12, 2014
In this webinar an expert panel will examine the security and visibility needs of mesh SDN networks by examining the security challenges faced by businesses in distributed SDN environments. The webinar will also present real-world case studies of companies who excelling at providing a superior customer experience for their applications and their sites.
Free Offer Published By: WANdisco
Published Date: Oct 15, 2014
In this Gigaom Research webinar, the panel will discuss how the multi-cluster approach can be implemented in real systems, and whether and how it can be made to work. The panel will also talk about best practices for implementing the approach in organizations.
White Paper Published By: Riverbed
Published Date: Aug 22, 2014
The network has become the central foundation of many IT operations. The IT infrastructure investment not only supports internal employee communications but also is the very linkage that drives ongoing revenue and growth. IDC found that customers were able to reduce IT costs, improve IT staff efficiency, increase availability for users, and trim time to market with new revenue-generating opportunities.
White Paper Published By: Riverbed
Published Date: Aug 22, 2014
The performance of RecoverPoint continuous remote replication can be impacted by characteristics common to wide-area networks, including packet loss, latency and limited bandwidth. SteelHead WAN optimization appliances can be leveraged to overcome the negative effects of these impairments, delivering LAN-like performance for RecoverPoint and all other business applications traversing the WAN. In this paper you will learn about performance benefits of the combined EMC RecoverPoint and Riverbed SteelHead solution, as measured through collaborative testing from EMC and Riverbed.
White Paper Published By: Riverbed
Published Date: Aug 22, 2014
An IDC® study documented the business impact of WAN optimization solutions on enterprise organizations. Current trends and issues that were explored include evolving and shifting communication patterns, connection types, applications and bandwidth.
White Paper Published By: Riverbed
Published Date: Aug 22, 2014
Because WAN optimization sits at the intersection of applications, networking, and storage, its potential benefits goes well beyond what enterprises had realized in the past. In fact, WAN optimization has now evolved into an architectural design element that shapes the performance lifecycle of IT.
White Paper Published By: Riverbed
Published Date: Aug 19, 2014
Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS™) is the software that powers Riverbed’s unique award-winning line of Steelhead™ application acceleration appliances and Steelhead Mobile client software.
White Paper Published By: XO Communications
Published Date: Jul 22, 2014
IT departments are jazzed about cloud services, which promise fast deployments and major cost savings. But is the cloud actually delivering on these promises? Now that more enterprises have cloud experience under their belts, IDG Research Services decided to find out.
White Paper Published By: Riverbed
Published Date: Apr 03, 2014
Learn how Riverbed® Cascade® gives you actionable information for network analysis and optimization, application performance management, acceleration of IT consolidation projects, and security compliance.
White Paper Published By: Silver Peak
Published Date: Oct 28, 2013
The Enterprise Strategy Group discusses how data center consolidation, virtualization, and cloud architectures are on the rise; however IT budgets are not increasing. This poses a unique challenge: How do you crease a flexible and agile environment without increasing the cost? See ESG’s analysis of WAN optimization benefits and how your peers are increasing their ROI and lowering their TCO.
Webinar Published By: Silver Peak
Published Date: Jun 24, 2013
With key productivity applications becoming more bandwidth, processing and storage-intensive, dwp turns to Silver Peak Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture software to accelerate its file transfers and optimize WAN performance.
Webinar Published By: Silver Peak
Published Date: Jun 24, 2013
See how Australia's largest independent locally-owned manufacturer and distributor of wood-based building products, Gunnersen, has implemented Silver Peak Systems to ensure its recovery point objectives are achieved.
Webinar Published By: Silver Peak
Published Date: Jun 24, 2013
This video featuring Forrester Research analyst Vanessa Alvarez looks at what is required for next-generation cloud implementations and the critical role the WAN plays in the success of cloud deployments.
White Paper Published By: Comcast Business
Published Date: Apr 26, 2013
Learn how to select the most optimal business Ethernet service in this 9 step guide that will show you how to meet your many application needs while reducing costs.
White Paper Published By: Silver Peak
Published Date: Feb 12, 2013
If you find yourself in need of a WAN optimization solution you’ll want to download this report to understand what’s new in the WAN optimization market, what vendors are the key players, and which products are most appropriate for your needs.
Case Study Published By: Silver Peak
Published Date: Feb 12, 2013
Silver Peak Systems' new Agility technology initiative gives application owners easy control with point-and-click virtual workload acceleration thanks to tight integration with VMware vCenter and other virtual infrastructure management consoles.