Bandwidth Management White Papers

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Solution Brief: Managing the WAN to Optimize Business
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN. It typically involves assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and traffic prioritization to improve application performance.
Posted: 01 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

BlueCoat

SuperMassive E10000 Series Next-Generation Firewall
sponsored by SonicWALL
WHITE PAPER: The SonicWALL® SuperMassive™ E10000 Series is SonicWALL’s Next-Generation Firewall platform designed for large networks to deliver scalability, reliability and deep security at multi-gigabit speeds.
Posted: 28 Feb 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

SonicWALL

Granular application control, intelligence and real-time visualization
sponsored by SonicWALL
WHITE PAPER: It can be a real challenge for IT administrators to efficiently deliver critical corporate solutions while also contending with employee use of wasteful and often dangerous applications. Critical applications need bandwidth prioritization while social media and gaming applications need to be bandwidth throttled or completely blocked.
Posted: 28 Feb 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

SonicWALL

Next-Generation Firewall
sponsored by SonicWALL
WHITE PAPER: It can be a real challenge for IT administrators to efficiently deliver critical corporate solutions while also contending with employee use of wasteful and often dangerous applications. Critical applications need bandwidth prioritization while social media and gaming applications need to be bandwidth throttled or even completely blocked.
Posted: 28 Feb 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

SonicWALL

Solution Brief: Accelerating File Services Across the WAN
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: Trends towards server consolidation and decentralized employees can seriously impact WAN bandwidth. A typical CIFS file often requires hundreds of round trips between the file server and the user to complete a simple file request.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

BlueCoat

Guide to Deploying and Troubleshooting Video in the Enterprise
sponsored by Fluke Networks
WHITE PAPER: Recently, a study commissioned by Cisco® Systems made a prediction that added a new word to the lexicon of the network engineer and IT director: zetabyte. The study predicted that by 2013, two-thirds of a zetabyte of video traffic would be on corporate networks.
Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

Fluke Networks

Optimizing Video Performance Across the Distributed Enterprise
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: Do more with less: that’s the message echoing through corporate cultures today. One clear target is to contain costs, especially travel-related costs, which can be large enough to have a serious impact on bottom lines. Read this paper to find out more.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010

BlueCoat

Application Visibility and Monitoring: An integrated approach to application delivery
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: This white paper looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within an ADN environment. It explores how to deliver superior application performance by using application-level insight to manage bandwidth demand, protect against malware and so much more.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010

BlueCoat

Is Your Network Ready for VoIP?
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP’s viability, regardless of which vendor’s IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010

BlueCoat

Accelerating Databases with Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array Storage
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows how to apply the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array as storage for database indexes in order to accelerate application performance.
Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

Oracle Corporation

Linktropy WAN Emulators
sponsored by Apposite Technologies
WHITE PAPER: Apposite's Linktropy WAN emulators simulate bandwidth, latency, jitter, loss, congestion, and other important link impairments to test applications in the lab and under a spectrum of real-world conditions. Through an intuitive, browser-based graphical interface, you can still install the Linktropy WAN emulator and begin testing within minutes.
Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 09 Sep 2010

Apposite Technologies

The Art, Act and Science of Knowing
sponsored by SAS
WHITE PAPER: We are now exiting a historical moment of under managed and only occasionally acted-upon information to an environment requiring much more active, much more intense, much more aggressive information management. You as an executive will be held much more accountable for your data management behaviors. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

SAS

Application Awareness for Service Providers
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can inject application awareness into their services as their next value-add and as a critical differentiator. Anyone offering managed services, either on-premise, in the cloud or as a hybrid solution, must build application awareness into their infrastructures from the bottom up.
Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 11 May 2010

BlueCoat

The MPLS Network: A Future-Proof Engine for Voice-Data Convergence
sponsored by MegaPath Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Voice and data on a single wire is an exciting network development. MPLS technology, which enables voice and data to be transported together on wide area networks (WANs), has matured to provide a platform for almost unimaginable communications and cloud computing possibilities. Learn more about MPLS by reading this white paper.
Posted: 26 Mar 2010 | Published: 26 Mar 2010

MegaPath Inc.

Managing the WAN to Optimize Business
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN by assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and prioritizing traffic to improve application performance. To be effective, bandwidth management must be perfectly aligned with business policies and priorities. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2007

BlueCoat

Optimize Performance of Datacenter to Datacenter Traffic
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

BlueCoat

A Technical Review of Caching Technologies
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to discuss the role of caching, describe in detail how object caching and byte caching works, and show how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Dec 2007

BlueCoat

LTE Operations and Maintenance Strategy - Using Self-Organizing Networks to Reduce OPEX
sponsored by Motorola Solutions
WHITE PAPER: While controlling CAPEX costs remains an important issue for mobile operators, OPEX costs have become a more significant part of operators' cost structure. This paper will examine how the operations and maintenance strategies for LTE infrastructure management must be changed in order to meet the OPEX expectations of LTE operators.
Posted: 13 Apr 2009 | Published: 13 Apr 2009

Motorola Solutions

Guide to Bandwidth Expansion
sponsored by Motorola Solutions
WHITE PAPER: This guide reviews the shift in the dynamics of competitor activity and evolving services which are creating the pressing need for operators to generate more bandwidth.
Posted: 05 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Dec 2008

Motorola Solutions

Voice Architectures and Deployment Models
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Telephony design requires a solid understanding of the drivers for Voice over IP, corporate policies for infrastructure design, and telephone components.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

Global Knowledge

Advanced Load Balancing: 8 Must-have Features for Today's Network Demands
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: Today’s web applications require more than simple load balancing. This white paper describes the 8 must-have features of a more comprehensive application delivery solution.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 07 Jun 2010

Citrix

Anonymous Proxy: A Growing Trend in Internet Abuse, and How to Defeat It
sponsored by Bloxx, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The Internet is a marvelous tool, but it can also be a tremendous drain and a threat to our children. Tru-View Technology maximizes the positives and eliminates the negatives so that organizations can meet the challenges of an 8+ billion-page Internet.
Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Published: 09 Sep 2008

Bloxx, Inc.

An EMC Perspective on Data De-Duplication for Backup
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the factors that are driving the need for de-duplication and the benefits of data de-duplication as a feature of an organization's backup strategy.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008

EMC Corporation

Genesis Wireless Brings Service to Resort, Builds Revenue
sponsored by Motorola Solutions
WHITE PAPER: Check out this brief case study to learn how Genesis Wireless implemented Motorola wireless broadband solutions to produce significant cost savings and provide enhanced reliability.
Posted: 29 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008

Motorola Solutions

Optical Networks: Closing the Gap Between Patient and Caregiver
sponsored by AT&T Corp
WHITE PAPER: In order to keep health care providers connected to their patients it's imperative to provide scalable, secure bandwidth. This white paper details optical network solutions that can do just that.
Posted: 08 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

AT&T Corp