Managed WAN optimization services, from such companies as AT&T, BT Global Services and Orange Business, provide an option for application performance improvements. A tech-support call starts it all.

When I asked WAN optimization veterans to weigh in on what they think will be the biggest technology and industry trends to watch during the year ahead, the economy (not surprisingly) played a part in ...

Experiences like this are why WAN optimization has bolted up the IT priority list, and why we're seeing a flurry of vendor activity. Weinberger's decision came down to buying more bandwidth or buying ...

The importance of creating synergies between the deliverance of business-critical data over the wide area network (WAN) to support remote employees is increasingly important to business because more ...

SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) has emerged as a revolutionary technology in the ever-evolving enterprise networking landscape. By enhancing network agility and optimizing performance, ...

This ChannelCast provides you with an opportunity to delve more deeply into this highly important technology segment. Our guest is Ed O'Connell, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, WAN Optimization, at ...

You know what makes network administrators happy? Making efficient use of their equipment and eliminating “performance stinks” calls from end-users. Thus, investing in an effective WAN optimization ...

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. was struggling with a classic problem: how to protect and secure data at remote sites without putting a technical support person at each site. Giving end users ...

As the enterprise becomes more dispersed and applications continue to greedily gobble up precious WAN bandwidth, IT struggles to find ways to coax just a little more performance out of its existing ...

Teridion is a company that uses SDN as an overlay on top of other carriers’ networks to optimize the flow of traffic. And Citrix offers SD-WAN. Now the two companies are working together to combine ...

Aryaka is doing software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) a little differently from others in this arena that provide overlays. Aryaka has invested in a global private network, which it put ...

Riverbed is off to a strong start for 2011 and the first quarter is shaping up to ahead of expectations as customers race to optimize their networks. After market close Tuesday, Riverbed said that its ...