The benefits of WAN optimization products are clear. Using compression and latency-reduction algorithms, they essentially increase the amount of traffic that can travel across a WAN link. The benefits ...

Aberdeen’s benchmark report, “Optimizing WAN for Application Acceleration” (see also the latest research, “Managed Network Services: Beyond Cost Savings and Uptime”), found that Best-in-Class ...

The WAN optimizer is hardware designed to reduce bandwidth consumption. WAN optimizers are designed for TCP traffic, which dominates the IP network. TCP traffic has a lot of redundancy and can be ...

Returning to our discussion on virtual appliances one of the areas where we are seeing a lot of use of virtual appliance technology is in the WAN optimization market. WAN optimization has been atop ...

Last time we began our discussion of colocation and how it relates to the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture. This time, we’ll look further into the benefits that colo facilities can ...

Over the last decade and a half, networking vendors have been using various methods to bundle wired, wireless, voice over IP, and security products into a solution sale. These companies tried various ...

ROSELAND, N.J. (BUSINESS WIRE) Expand Networks, (www.expand.com) the leader in WAN optimization for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced that Porsche Informatik, a division ...

In an effort to fill a gap in its product line, Silver Peak is launching the NX-5500, which supports 50 Mbps of WAN capacity. Until now, the vendor’s application acceleration appliance line ...

Fresh off some of its best-ever industry notices, WAN optimization specialist Silver Peak Systems is forging ahead with an updated channel partner program. Silver Peak Champions, which launched toward ...