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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...
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The Internet has shifted under our feet
The way traffic moves over the Internet has changed radically in the last five years, according to a new report, and few people have realized it.
HP researchers say browser-based 'Veiled' makes darknets a snap
Darknets – private networks carved out of the Internet to allow peer-to-peer sharing – can be quickly and easily created among Web browsers, making...
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...
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...
WAN veteran debuts new name, product line
Taken from the word "necessary," Ecessa is the new name of a WAN industry veteran that for years has developed WAN link controllers tailored for...
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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...
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...
Catching up with Silver Peak Systems
Network choices have changed considerably since the days when private leased lines were the predominant option for business connectivity. The...
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ShoreTel VoIP supports seven new countries
ShoreTel has expanded its offerings with ShoreTel 8.1, which adds support for seven new countries, plus support for ShoreTel's Unified Communications...
F5 adds support for iPhones over its SSL VPN tunnels
F5 Networks has issued a new version of its FirePass software so it can apply group access policies to mobile devices as the log-in to SSL VPNs.
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...
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4 steps to take control of your mobile devices
Mobile enterprise clients pose new security and management challenges. Here's how you can meet them.
Cisco tries to make teleworking transparent
Cisco plans to make remote work as simple as plugging a router into a broadband connection and starting up a PC.
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Check Point goes virtual with VPN-1
Check Point is introducing a version of its VPN-1 software that runs on VMware ESX or ESXi to protect virtual machines from one another when they are...
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