Keeping up with WAN optimization

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	Keeping up with WAN optimization I've enjoyed learning and writing about WAN optimization, application delivery and more. Interacting with readers, getting story ideas, and hearing what's on your minds was the best part. Thank you for your feedback over the years. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP WAN Design – Don't Buy More than You Need This Gartner research note examines the methodology organizations should employ when designing a WAN. It offers advice on how to ensure that important applications are networked with sufficient performance and that there is not an "overspend" on less important applications and provides guidance on meeting unique network needs. Read Now. In this Issue Google to build ultra high-speed networks in the US Avaya hopes for gold in running the Olympic network KEMP Technologies offers load balancing For SMBs Riverbed releases gigabit-speed WAN optimizer YouTube confirms IPv6 support Juniper to integrate mobile networks and edge routers Google to carriers: 'Anything you can do, we can do better' BT: We'll open fibre network if other ISPs follow WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. Google to build ultra high-speed networks in the US In its continuing quest to speed up the Internet, Google has decided to build what it calls "ultra high-speed" broadband networks in some parts of the U.S., the company announced. Read More Avaya hopes for gold in running the Olympic network When the winter Olympic Games open this weekend, the events will be tied together by a converged 10G Ethernet network backbone. Read More WHITE PAPER: Virtela Overcoming Single Provider MPLS Limitations Frost & Sullivan review the limitations associated with a single-provider approach to MPLS networks and its impact on the enterprise. They then examine Virtela's Global Service Fabric - a multi-carrier network approach that provides a best-of-breed global MPLS network solution. Read More! KEMP Technologies offers load balancing For SMBs Small businesses that choose to run their own Web servers, or have other application and terminal servers prone to overloading, might want to look at a dedicated load-balancing appliance that can help them deal with more traffic while minimizing service slowdown and outages. Enter the LoadMaster 2000, a $1590 load balancer by KEMP Technologies aimed at SMBs with overworked servers. Read More Riverbed releases gigabit-speed WAN optimizer Riverbed Technology announced new models of its network accelerator appliance, increasing the throughput for on-site and off-site backups to 1Gbit/sec. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Live Webcast: Maximize ROI for Web Applications Learn how the data grid technology in Oracle WebLogic Suite can dramatically reduce hardware, datacenter, and software license costs, as well as improve overall system manageability, reliability, and scalability. Register today for this FREE Webcast. Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET Register Today! YouTube confirms IPv6 support YouTube confirmed that it now supports IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, in a blog post published Friday. Read More Juniper to integrate mobile networks and edge routers At next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Juniper Networks will launch products that integrate mobile networks into its MX 3D Universal Edge routers and let third party vendors integrate their applications into mobile networks. Read More Google to carriers: 'Anything you can do, we can do better' Not content to merely challenge Internet carriers in the mobile phone world, Google is now challenging them in the fiber world as well. Read More BT: We'll open fibre network if other ISPs follow BT wants all UK ISPs to make their infrastructures available to each other in a bid to increase broadband coverage in the country. Read More
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