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Evaluating Certeon's aCelera virtual appliance
Certeon is the only WAN optimization vendor to provide a full virtual solution, the aCelera virtual appliance, which interoperates with the market's leading virtual hypervisors and management systems. Continue Reading
Evaluating Citrix Branch Repeater for WAN optimization
Citrix's product for WAN optimization is the Citrix Branch Repeater. This family of products integrates network optimization with application, desktop and server virtualization. Continue Reading
Evaluating Blue Coat Systems' WAN optimization
Blue Coat Systems distinguishes itself as a WAN optimization vendor with strengths in security and application visibility. Learn important facts about Blue Coat's ProxySG and PacketShaper products. Continue Reading
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Evaluating Silver Peak Systems for WAN optimization
Silver Peak Systems' WAN optimization product line addresses problems typically seen in the data center, including accelerating data backup, server and storage centralization, and real-time collaboration and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Continue Reading
WAN optimization vendors and application delivery: F5, Streamcore and Ecessa
WAN optimization vendors and products can be difficult to categorize. Here we cover F5, known for application delivery; Streamcore, which focuses on performance; and Ecessa, which makes WAN link controllers. Continue Reading
Regional Internet Registry (RIR)
A Regional Internet Registry (RIR) is a not-for-profit organization that oversees Internet Protocol (IP) address space and the Autonomous System (AS) numbers within a specific geographical region. Each RIR is tasked with creating local policy for ...Continue Reading
IP network design guide: Managing an IP-based network
Network design underlies the performance of your enterprise IP network. This four part guide by Cormac Long offers you a comprehensive roadmap to designing IP-based networks, from the basic principles involved to the more complex finishing touches.Continue Reading
Bandwidth measurement and management guide
Today's enterprise applications are demanding more and more network bandwidth. How do you ensure you have enough bandwidth and manage it well? Find out with the resources in our bandwidth measurement and management guide.Continue Reading
logical network
A logical network is one that appears to the user as a single, separate entity although it might in fact be either just a part of a larger network or an entity connecting multiple networks. A logical network is defined by its IP addressing scheme.Continue Reading
Storage certification guide for networking pros
Networking pros are seeking storage training as they become responsible for converging data center and storage networks. Storage certification programs may offer the right skills -- or at least a start.Continue Reading
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Unified data center fabric primer: FCoE and data center bridging
Unified data center fabrics combine FCoE and data center bridging to enable SAN and LAN traffic to run on the same physical network, simplifying network architecture and resulting in savings. This unified data center fabric primer runs down the ...Continue Reading
Virtualization certification guide for the networking pro
Virtualization training can be obtained through real-world experience, but networking pros find that virtualization certification programs can help them obtain new skills proactively and can differentiate them as job candidates.Continue Reading
WAN accelerator
A WAN accelerator is an appliance that improves the end user's experience on a wide area network (WAN).Continue Reading
chatty protocol
A chatty protocol is an application or routing protocol that requires a client or server to wait for an acknowledgement before it can transmit again.Continue Reading
Packet Order Correction (POC)
Packet Order Correction (POC) is a technique for dealing with out-of-order packet delivery.Continue Reading