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 ...

Jim participated in a recent Network World chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration. This is the third in a series of newsletters that will expand upon the ...

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 ...

It's clear the WAN optimization market is no longer a niche play. According to Gartner, WAN optimization is expected to grow from the $700 million market it was in 2006 to a $1.9 billion market in ...

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 ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE--Asia's bustling outsourcing activities have pushed some vendors to come up with new devices and capitalize on the trend. F5 Networks for example, has unveiled its new WAN (wide area network ...

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 ...