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

EBOOK: As a leading provider of solutions for Service Providers, Blue Coat appliances give you the visibility, acceleration and security needed for optimizing your network. Read this e-book to learn how Blue Coat gives you the control you need to deliver a whole set of new managed services for your business and consumer customers.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

CASE STUDY: New Mexico's statewide court system found an all-in-one branch-office router and firewall in Vyatta 514 and 2501 Appliances. Vyatta provided functionality that would have been unavailable or very costly to add to Cisco or Netscreen equipment, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), VPN Concentrator, URL filtering, and packet capture.

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a brief introduction to Evolved Packet Core - a new mobile core for LTE. Key concepts and functional elements are outlined, as well as key changes in LTE requirements imposed on the Evolved Packet Core, and the deployment challenges one can expect to encounter.

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Network managers and administrators face the daunting task of effectively monitoring and managing network resources while meeting user expectations for network performance across the WAN. At the same time, they have to reduce operating costs and do more with less. Read on to learn how a unified performance management (UPM) solution can help.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 27 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Are you are a system administrator considering the adoption of Cisco's Tcl (Tool Command Language)? If so, read this white paper, which explores the technical and business benefits of Tcl and ActiveTcl Enterprise, a software, support and maintenance package for the ActiveTcl distribution.

Posted: 07 May 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

DATA SHEET: Check out this data sheet for a categorized listing of 600 common applications for which Blue Coat PacketShaper delivers an accurate picture of network traffic.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: If you can't see what's happening, then you can't even begin to attack what's wrong with the network. Here are 5 concrete reasons why you should contact Blue Coat today and start working towards greater visibility of your network.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: RF sources and wireless devices can influence your Wi-Fi network's performance and security. AnalyzeAir software is an easy to understand, fast-start solution that helps you see, monitor, analyze, and manage your RF environment.

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 04 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Subnetting is a complicated topic that has confused students for a very long time, however, subnetting is an important topic for many different certifications with various vendors, including Cisco.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses PCI requirement 1.1 for protecting cardholder data and examines why implementing such safeguards is critical to you, your business and your customers.

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | Published: 24 Sep 2008