WAN White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Branch office solutions based upon converged infrastructure can deliver higher levels of security to ensure data protection and prevent costly, damaging breaches. Read this set of documents to learn more about servers, storage and network resources can be safely shared without inhibiting system response and availability.

Posted: 26 May 2011 | Published: 26 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises. Examine the trends toward server consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN optimization can help IT organizations like yours solve the key challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat’s WAN Optimization technology is especially well suited to improving response times and reducing bandwidth consumption for SAP users, by prioritizing SAP applications and guaranteeing performance over non-critical or recreational traffic.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: Design teams across the world collaborate to create and develop prod­ucts. Unfortunately, IT organizations face serious challenges when collaborative teams share large files. This white paper will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the four technologies most commonly used to enhance file sharing for distributed teams.

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 | Published: 17 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing simplifies enterprise application delivery with resource flexibility, investment-less OPEX models, and no need for specialized in-house support resources.

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: Siemens Enterprise Communications continues to lead the evolution of real-time unified communications by delivering innovative and customer-centric solutions with measurable financial benefits, and has proven both the technology and the savings for customers.

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011

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

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

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

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

WHITE PAPER: With the first and only H.264 High Profile implementation for real-time video, customers can immediately begin saving on bandwidth costs—up to 50%! Read a technical overview of the H.264 High Profile standard, including the history of H.264 and the recent advancements to and benefits of the technology.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the industry-standard protocol for establishing a secure communications link when transmitting information over untrusted networks. However, SSL can create complications when it comes to prioritizing, optimizing, and accelerating network traffic. This paper outlines a solid strategy for optimizing SSL applications.

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 | Published: 23 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how VMware View 4 and virtual desktop storage options from NetApp deliver flexible, cost effective, secure virtual desktops. Enterprises can now deploy cost effective virtual desktop environments (over LAN or WAN) that meet the needs of a wide range of end users.

Posted: 06 May 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the fundamentals of Carrier Ethernet and examines how service profiles and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) can be defined in Carrier Ethernet.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

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

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

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

WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the best of the newest achievements in VSAT performance and utility and shows how these solutions could become part of the mainstream of corporate network deployment and an integral portion of commercial (and competitive) service provider offerings.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Cisco Virtual Office is a highly scalable solution for medium and large organizations looking to provide teleworkers, small offices, and mobile users with office-like experience combining voice, video, wireless, and real-time data applications in a secure environment. This deployment guide provides full details.

Posted: 18 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: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009