WAN Switching

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: The proliferation of user-generated content and video sharing sites has made for a constant source of new material. However, the bandwidth demands of such media often congest WAN links. One approach is to just block flash video. This technical brief presents an alternate approach that can allow video and business critical applications to co-exist.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: With two data centers serving 24 offices in the U.S., Europe and India, Hitachi Consulting required a solution that could provide visibility into the applications running on the network while selectively accelerating business critical ones. Read on to learn about the solution they found.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: According to a recent Nemertes study, a whopping 75% of companies polled indicate they're putting greater emphasis on video conferencing this year. This confirms our ever-growing trend towards the time- and cost-savings of video conferencing. To successfully deploy video conferencing services, avoid these eight common mistakes.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: As Unified Communications (UC) moves increasingly from promise to implementation, questions arise about the best ways to establish UC solutions. This paper describes effective approaches to unifying communications, the importance of optimizing your network infrastructure and how embracing converged communications can increase business productivity.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

VIDEOCAST: Please join Kent Christensen, Virtualization Practice Manager, Datalink, as he analyzes and explains WAN efficiencies between data centers. In addition to the topic of transferring data over the WAN more efficiently between the primary and secondary data centers, much of the presentation will apply to small remote offices as well.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 27 Aug 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, Agatha Poon of Yankee Analyst Group answers questions about upcoming trends and changes in WAN services. She answers questions about the important trends right now in global enterprise WAN, how the WAN landscape is changing, and how new tools are playing into the market. Listen to this podcast and find out what she has to say.

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 10 Jul 2009

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

PRODUCT LITERATURE: This white paper outlines the basic obstacles enterprise business' face having remote employees. More specifically, it provides a problem - solution approach to WAN latency and bandwith hungry application issues that disrupt profitability.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper you will learn about the evolution of Ethernet, the reasons VLANs were introduced, and the ways that VLANs can be used.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise users and their data have never been further apart. Business pressures that keep employees out of headquarters and close to customers and partners have met head-on with other drivers that are bringing far flung servers back to the datacenter.

Posted: 20 Sep 2007 | Published: 20 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat's SSL proxy functionality enables organizations to extend the power of the intelligent and secure proxy appliances to all SSL traffic. Read about how a proxy gives visibility and control of SSL communications.

Posted: 20 Sep 2007 | Published: 20 Sep 2007