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There's nothing local about this LAN: Verizon Business this week expanded its Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) across the world, taking a local area network technology and making it...

Broadview taking VoIP service nationwide: Broadview Networks has announced that it is taking its hosted VoIP service, OfficeSuite, nationwide. The company has historically focused on...

The mandate for MPLS support: This is our last newsletter in a series of five newsletters that examined some of the factors that are driving IT organizations to rethink their...

Faster, Cheaper and Easier to Maintain WHITE PAPER: This paper will explore the performance characteristics, energy demands and maintenance requirements of today's new, energy-efficient servers, and...

Videoconferencing hits the big time … for real: It feels like 1989 all over again. Wacky haircuts are back (I think I saw a mullet the other day). "Alternative rock" sounds a lot like what used to...

Cisco enhances routers, switches for collaboration: Cisco this week is extending its branch routers and LAN switches in an effort to improve the collaboration capabilities of enterprise customers.

What's up in the branch?: Wireless vendors are attempting to ease the pain of branch office computing with multifunction networking products that replicate the headquarters...

Aligning IT to Business: The Rising Importance of Application Delivery Networks WHITE PAPER: Application Delivery Networking (ADN) will play a vital role in helping enterprises incorporate strategic technologies to achieve business...

Managing mobility requires casting a wide net: Mobility represents one of the fastest-growing line items in most IT budgets as an increasing number of employees request and receive mobile...

7 reasons MPLS has been wildly successful: The IETF Thursday threw a birthday party for one of its most successful standards: Multi-Protocol Label Switching.

IETF: No consensus on IPv6 NATs: The Internet's leading standards body appears split on a controversial proposal to specify network address translators (NAT) for IPv6, the...

Acceleration 102 WHITE PAPER: Both asymmetric and symmetric acceleration technologies can deliver great benefit to your users. But how and where do you deploy them? This paper...

Covad boosts wholesale network with MPLS: Covad Communications is adding MPLS to its wholesale network to help operator customers deliver the quality of service required for applications such...

AT&T makes $1 billion ’09 network investment: AT&T will invest $1 billion this year to expand and upgrade its global network with a particular emphasis on rolling out more business applications...

Vendors offer application acceleration options: Webtorials, in a joint venture with Layland Consulting, recently released the 2009 version of the "Application Acceleration Challenge."

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