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RSS wide area networkTechNet Webcast: Wide Area Network Performance Improvements in Windows Server 2008 (Level 300)
White Paper The attendee of this webcast will learn about the new performance enhancements in the Windows Server 2008 operating system that are designed to help a person get the most out of the Wide Area Network (WAN) investment. [23 Dec 2007]
Technical Paper: What Is a WAN (Wide Area Network) ?
White Paper Whereas a LAN (local area network) is a network that links computers, printers and other devices located in an office, a building or even a campus, a WAN (wide area network) is a system that extends for greater distances and is used to connect... [13 Jul 2004]
Deploying Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004 in a TCP/IP Wide Area Network
White Paper The IP-DLC link service of Host Integration Server 2004 enables you to connect directly to IBM mainframe computers through a pure TCP/IP wide area network or local area network. This paper describes how the IP-DLC (Internet Protocol-Data Link... [16 Oct 2004]
The End-to-End Performance Effects of Parallel TCP Sockets on a Lossy Wide-Area Network
White Paper A series of transmission experiments were conducted over a wide area network to assess how parallel flows improve throughput, and to understand the number of flows necessary to improve throughput while avoiding congestion. [05 Dec 2007]
Implementing RDM in a Wide Area Network
White Paper Remote Deployment Manager (RDM) is an effective tool for deployment in a Wide Area Network (WAN). This environment was a key design point for RDM. The idea is to initiate deployment work from the office, even though the target systems may be in... [21 Apr 2007]
Optimizing Wide Area Network Performance
White Paper A key problem facing IT infrastructure managers is how to ensure end-to-end network performance and availability as their business increasingly relies on the wide area network (WAN). Advances in communications technology have allowed more critical... [12 Dec 2007]
SWAN: Storage Wide Area Network
White Paper This paper introduces the concept of a Storage Wide Area Network (SWAN), discusses the business requirements for SWANs, provides an overview of the current state of SWAN capabilities, and speculates on the future implementation of SWANs. [24 Feb 2004]
Competitive Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Wide-Area Network (WAN) Access Using Signaling System 7 (SS7)
White Paper Using conventional Internet access equipment, service providers may access signaling system seven (SS7) in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) for a cost-effective means of providing Internet services. [24 Feb 2004]
Directional Gossip: Gossip in a Wide Area Network
White Paper A reliable multicast protocol ensures that all of the intended recipients of a message m that do not fail eventually deliver m. For example, consider the reliable multicast protocol of , and consider a message m, sent by process p1, that is... [05 Dec 2007]
RAIDing the Network Wide-Area Remote Data Mirroring over SRDF
White Paper Business continuance is a term very much in the vocabulary and the forefront concern of every Information Systems (IS) manager today. The very existence of many businesses depends upon their ability to support around-the-clock activities. [24 Feb 2004]
QoS in a Wide Area Network
White Paper Focuses on WAN components in the Cisco AVVID Network Infrastructure. Design guidance for deploying QoS in the WAN. [12 Dec 2007]
Building a High-Quality Mobile Telemedicine System Using Network Striping Over Dissimilar Wireless Wide Area Networks
White Paper Network striping allows one to aggregate multiple physical channels to meet the bandwidth requirements for the video. This paper has developed flexible network-striping software middleware, and is building a telemedicine system using that middleware. [01 Aug 2007]
Secure Wireless Computing: Best Practices for Managing Security in Wide-Area Wireless Networks
White Paper But wireless attacks are more insidious and can corrupt network quickly and quietly - before one have time to take action. In traditional LAN-based computing, security breaches are quickly detected and usually preventable with industry standard... [24 Feb 2004]
Making Wide-Area, Multi-Site MPI Feasible Using Xen VM
White Paper Although multi-site MPI execution has been criticized in the past as being "Impractical" due to limitations in network latency and bandwidth, the authors believe many of the obstacles can be overcome by various means for wider classes of... [01 Apr 2007]
LABAR: Location Area Based Ad Hoc Routing for GPS-Scarce Wide-Area Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper The most challenging problem in conjunction with ad hoc networks is routing, i.e.the procedure in charge of determining the trajectory of packets traveling over the network. Wireless ad hoc networks are becoming increasingly important in the world. [01 Aug 2007]
