It has been a busy few weeks for WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors. Among the highlights is Afore Solutions’ introduction of a network acceleration appliance designed to optimize ...

The WAN acceleration tools have a number of tricks. Will this help my voice and video? Not directly, but indirectly. Clients often ask how WAN accelerators like Cisco WAAS or Riverbed Steelhead can ...

Packeteer is blending the functions of two of its WAN-acceleration devices into a single box, making it possible for users to address network problems that may be slowing site-to-site performance ...

Expand's portfolio of Accelerator appliances uses data-compression algorithms to boost WAN capacity without requiring bandwidth increases. The vendor's new ...

Akamai's announcement this week of much broader acceleration benefits-- to all IP applications, including VOIP -- extends its WAN optimization capabilities into enterprises and out to remote users.

Software that speeds up transmission in a wide area network. Various techniques are used including compression and the application of quality of service (QoS) parameters to packets. If an application ...

Depending on the WAN link and the data, RiOS 6 slashes transfer times from hours to minutes and minutes to seconds The latest release from Riverbed, RiOS 6, continues to define what a WAN optimization ...

Looking for some specifics on ORCL data guard, specifically with reference to latency and WAN acceleration. Oracle themselves are suggesting that in any application with over 30ms latency, it's not ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Expand Networks Inc., a supplier of application acceleration solutions over the wide area network (WAN), has secured $8.5 million of funding. The funding was led by Intel Capital ...

Silver Peak has launched what it claimed is the biggest WAN accelerator ever — a box able to optimize, de-duplicate, compress, and encrypt 1Gbps of WAN traffic. Called the NX-9000, it’s also the first ...

Any opinions on Mobile WAN acceleration solutions you use today? I know of Riverbed SMC, which requires a management controller and an Steelhead Appliance. Cisco has their WAAS Mobile, which requires ...

Glen Dalgleish, vice president of infrastructure services at global perfumer Coty Inc., well remembers why he and his staff had implemented WAN acceleration technology last January: to improve ...