Packeteer is blending the functions of two of its WAN-acceleration devices into a single box, making it possible for users to address network problems that may be slowing site-to-site performance ...

It has been a busy few weeks for WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors. Among the highlights is Afore Solutions' introduction of a network acceleration appliance designed to optimize ...

If you’re tired of having your remote users complain about the WAN’s performance, it may be time to check out a WAN optimization/acceleration solution. Up until a ...

Bottlenecks like high latency and choked bandwidth between the branch office and headquarters may be a thing of the past, if companies apply the latest WAN optimization techniques, says routing and ...

Hello Ars, <BR><BR>We will be opening up a second office pretty soon in the West Coast (we're on the East) and have ordered a 10meg MPLS link between the two offices. We're a medium sized design firm ...

Soderlund, who was ProCurve's vide president and general manager for sales and marketing, will bring his 15 years of industry experience to Certeon as senior vice president of its worldwide sales and ...

We're trying to implement some WAN acceleration devices but we're running into a snag with it being unable to optimize WAN RPC traffic, like AD replication and Exchange MAPI connections. The issue ...

Compared to native, non-optimized WAN links, the acceleration RiOS 6 provides is enormous. Below are test results of CIFS file transfers, an Excel open-copy-save as-open process, MAPI, and FTP across ...

Government agencies are faced with more WAN problems today than ever before as a result of data center consolidation, mobile and telework computing, and public cloud computing all converging on IT at ...

Glen Dalgleish, vice president of infrastructure services at global perfumer Coty Inc., well remembers why he and his staff had implemented WAN acceleration technology last January: to improve ...

Expand's portfolio of Accelerator appliances uses data-compression algorithms to boost WAN capacity without requiring bandwidth increases. The vendor's new ...

Common Internet File System is a remote file access protocol that forms the basis for Windows file sharing. CIFS performs poorly over high-latency WAN links because it’s chatty, meaning a large number ...