The trick to testing WAN optimization tools

Product Test and Buyer's Guide This newsletter is sponsored by Packet Design The Logical Causes of Application Degradation, by Jim Metzler This white paper examines the logical vs. device-specific causes of application degradation, and explains how route analytics provides insight into logical application issues and helps reduce finger pointing, speed troubleshooting, and streamline planning. Product Test and Buyer's Guide, 05/17/07 By Christine Burns This is a shameless plug made in order to fill the room for a colleague who is giving a talk at next week’s Interop trade show in Las Vegas. But my shame is somewhat mitigated by the fact that this should be an interesting session if you are at all interested in speeding up Windows application performance across WAN links. At 12:15 PM on Tuesday in the Mandalay Bay J room at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center, Network Lab Alliance partner David Newman (whose day job is president of Network Test, and independent testing house based in southern California), will deliver a talk entitled “Testing WAN Optimization products: What traffic mix should you bet on?” Multiple vendors offer appliances that use TCP and CIFS tricks to improve Windows application performance across WAN links. Based on his most recent tests of this category of products conducted for Network World, Newman will discuss whether or not these mechanisms work in general. Additionally, he’ll provide a strategy for designing and running meaningful tests based on the types of applications in your own environment. Compare Products with Network World's VoIP and Convergence Buyer's Guide From deployable IP-PBX systems to unified messaging, Network World has detailed information on hundreds of products. Side-by-side comparisons along with objective test and review results make it quick and easy to find the solutions that are right for your enterprise. Click here to find out more. If you happen to miss this talk, you’ll be sorry, but not totally out of luck. The full results of Newman’s testing will be published in Network World in early July. In the meantime, if you need to do a little research on this market space on your own, check out the Network World Application Acceleration Management Buyer’s Guide where four dozen products are listed in great detail.

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Contact the author: Christine Burns is the Executive Editor of Testing. She can be reached at cburns@nww.com This newsletter is sponsored by Packet Design The Logical Causes of Application Degradation, by Jim Metzler This white paper examines the logical vs. device-specific causes of application degradation, and explains how route analytics provides insight into logical application issues and helps reduce finger pointing, speed troubleshooting, and streamline planning. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: security.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007