You are here: silicon.com > Tags

111 stories on

wide area networks (wan)

Sort by: Date | Relevance


ESG Lab Field Audit: Riverbed Wide-area Data Services - Complimenting Existing LAN and WAN Infrastructure from Cisco

whitepaper Many companies have successfully implemented Riverbed WDS solutions within their Cisco networks. This ESG Lab Field Audit documents the success that these Riverbed customers have experienced with a focus on configurations and installation experiences.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[11 May 2008]

Business Continuity: No Longer Out of Reach

whitepaper This is due to multiple technological advances -- in particular intelligent storage, iSCSI connectivity, server virtualization, and wide-area network (WAN) acceleration. While large companies could afford expensive fibre channel storage area...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[03 Apr 2008]

Accelerate Applications Using Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Mobile

whitepaper Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Mobile provides industry-leading application acceleration and Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization capabilities for networks and applications to make them work better for mobile enterprise users and...

Tags: wide area networks (wan)

[28 Mar 2008]

The Next-Generation Enterprise WAN Aggregation Router

whitepaper Businesses are increasingly reliant on their Wide Area Networks (WANs). With the growth of advanced services such as voice and video over IP, mobile data connectivity, remote application access, and unification of wire line and wireless networks...

Tags: switching, wider, wide area networks, connectivity

[28 Mar 2008]

Business Information Provider Deploys Robust Branch Office Solution

whitepaper Centralizing by using Tacit Networks' WAFS provides staff with access to data at high speeds over the company's WAN and yields administrative savings. Working with Tacit Networks, a Microsoft Storage Partner, Factiva implemented Microsoft Windows...

Tags: wide area networks (wan)

[17 Jan 2008]

Optimizing Wide Area Network Performance

whitepaper 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). This white paper examines how Ethernet-based network management...

Tags: wan, mission, sites, role

[12 Dec 2007]

Poster Abstract: Seastar Underwater Acoustic Local Area Network

whitepaper The Seaweb Wide-Area Network (WAN) concept provides for Local-Area Networks (LANs) having a sophisticated central node that collects and fuses undersea data from a set of relatively simple peripheral nodes.

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

VLAN Security in the LAN and MAN Environment

whitepaper Today VLANs are not only used as an integral part of the LAN environment, they are now also being used as a means of providing WAN (Wide Area Network) / MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) services. Since the creation of VLANs (Virtual Local Area...

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

Modeling and Performance Evaluation of iSCSI Storage Area Networks Over TCP/IP-Based MAN and WAN Networks

whitepaper In the future, SAN traffic will be transported over IP-based networks, e.g.enterprise virtual private networks, to benefit from converged networks and save cost. In these scenarios, the impact of end-to-end delay and QoS of broadband networks on...

Tags: tcp - ip, san, storage area network, operators

[23 Aug 2007]

Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS)

whitepaper The second trend is the decreasing cost and high-bandwidth potential of fiber media, making support of such applications over a wide-area network (WAN) viable. The SIP is based on an IEEE standard protocol for metropolitan-area networks (MANs...

Tags: switching, protocol, distributed, high speed

[23 Jul 2007]

Speeding up the net - is it possible?

Comment The best way to get reliable performance out of a wide area network (WAN) is to install your own high-speed gigabit fibre optic cables between all the locations in your organisation. Find out more in Quocirca's freee white paper A Short Guide to a...

Tags: public internet, vpn, wan

[09 Jul 2007]

Success Strategies for Deploying a Citywide Outdoor Wireless LAN

whitepaper WAN download and upload speeds are typically much slower than LAN speeds. With no fixed location, users face two choices: either return to an office to gain network access or use wireless cellular Wide Area Networks (WANs).

Tags: connectivity, return, wide area networks, network connectivity

[21 Feb 2007]

Bridging 802.11 Networks With Linksys

whitepaper The standard home gateways often have a Wide-Area Network (WAN) Ethernet port (to connect to a DSL or cable modem) and one or more Local Area Network (LAN) ports for the local network. Typically, an access point acts as a central hub, router...

Tags: ethernet, port, ethernet, point

[10 Nov 2006]

Hawaii Safeguards Schools Statewide Using Intrusion Protection Systems From TippingPoint

whitepaper The notorious Blaster worm struck the local area network (LAN) of one of its 275 K-12 schools and spread like wildfire across the district's Wide Area Network (WAN). HIDOE's schools rely heavily on its wired and wireless LAN/WAN infrastructure for...

Tags: network security, schools, school, district

[20 Oct 2006]

Case Study: Peribit Networks - Flash Product Demonstration

whitepaper Peribit Networks, Inc.the developer of patent-pending bandwidth optimization products that dramatically improve Wide-Area Network (WAN) performance, engaged Busse Design to create a Flash presentation that was compelling, illustrative, and...

Tags: wide area networks (wan), wide area network, accuracy, presentation

[13 Oct 2006]

In North Carolina: Wireless Helps Fast-Growing School District Keep Pace

whitepaper The district plans to use wireless for wide area network (WAN) connectivity on other multischool campuses using the Cisco Aironet 340 Series wireless bridges. The North Carolina's Wake County Public School System began installation of Cisco Aironet...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, points, school, wired

[01 Oct 2006]

Expand Networks Accelerates and Secures Disaster Recovery Efforts for Hunterdon Healthcare System

whitepaper Hunterdon Healthcare System has chosen Expand Networks, a leader in applications acceleration over the Wide-Area Network (WAN), to support its disaster recovery efforts. Expand's Accelerators and TCP (Transmission/Transport Control Protocol...

Tags: remote access - ra servers, healthcare, disaster, disaster recovery

[18 Aug 2006]

SAN Over SDH/SONET for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

whitepaper These solutions provide data connectivity between separate SAN islands within the enterprise using the Wide Area Network (WAN). This white paper describes the business case for using SDH/SONET as the WAN between SAN islands.

Tags: disaster recovery, san, storage area networks, wide area network

[18 Aug 2006]

Kuehne & Nagel Deploy Accelerators to Support Critical Data Back-Up

whitepaper Kuehne & Nagel wanted to address this need for critical data back-up, without incurring any additional costs to upgrade its Wide Area Network (WAN) capacity to serve this purpose. And at the heart of Kuehne & Nagel's supply chain management is the...

Tags: back-up, wide area network, nagel, evaluation

[18 Aug 2006]

Metro Ethernet as a Wide Area Technology and Why It Must Be Secured

whitepaper A MAN sits between a Local Area Network (LAN) and a Wide Area Network (WAN) to enable sharing of resources across a region. Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) have emerged as a key network infrastructure among enterprises looking to connect their...

Tags: bandwidth issues, ethernet, metro, geographically

[30 Jun 2006]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: