 WAN News AlertThis newsletter is sponsored by Aerohive NetworksWAN News Alert, 11/14/07Consumer groups oppose telecom-deregulation requests, 11/13/07: Eight public-interest and consumer groups have asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reject requests by two large telecommunication providers to close off their copper voice and data networks to competitors in 10 U.S. cities. Verizon defends redirecting typo traffic, 11/09/07: Verizon is standing by its program of redirecting typo traffic to their company’s own search page, and claims that the redirects are valuable ways to help their users search the Internet. Verizon, Level 3 share $1.8B telecom contract, 11/09/07: Verizon Business and Level 3 Communications will share a multibillion contract to provide local telecommunications services to U.S. federal agencies in the Washington, D.C. area.
Podcast: Stuffing 10 pounds of data in 5-pound pipe: How did First Command Financial Planning Services manage to pack 70 megabytes of data through a 22 megabyte pipe to speed disaster recovery systems? Kevin Dunn, director of network operations, First Command Financial Planning explains on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap. (9:08) New broadband data: The U.S. is still behind, 11/12/07: Japan's average broadband speed is more than 10 times that of the U.S., while its subscription prices are only about 50% higher, according to new data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Designing your network in the 21st century: Change and survivability modeling involve modeling your existing network, adding known link loads and application flows, and then imposing changes or failures to see how the loads and flows react. Separating network design and the CCIE: Cisco's announcement in July of the new Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) and Master Architect certifications was a sign of the times. For years, people have been designing complex networks or, at a higher level, setting architectural strategies and goals. However, during this time, the key to the design engineer washroom was a CCIE. Where's David?, 11/08/07: Jim and Steve are old enough to remember when the Goliath that is now Cisco had several viable competitors. While it is a stretch to say that today Cisco does not have any viable competitors in most of its traditional enterprise markets, it is only a bit of a stretch. The question this newsletter addresses is what happened to those competitors of yesterday and who if anybody can compete with Cisco in the future? Where have Cisco's competitors gone?, 11/13/07: In the last newsletter we discussed how in many cases Cisco has become the overwhelmingly dominant vendor in some enterprise markets such as the enterprise switch and router market. We expressed our concern that this type of market dominance is ultimately bad for IT organizations as the lack of competition tends to result in less innovation and higher prices. We will use this newsletter to look at some other markets to see if Cisco is indeed the Goliath of those markets as well. NLR, Internet2 merger off again, 11/06/07: Internet2’s on-again, off-again relationship with National LambdaRail has hit another rough patch. How does Metro Ethernet work?: Cisco instructor explains the mysteries of Metro Ethernet. Editor's note: Starting the week of Nov. 19, you will notice a number of enhancements to Network World newsletters that will provide you with more resources and more news links relevant to the newsletter's subject. Beginning Monday, Nov. 12, the Wide Area Networking Newsletter, written by Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler, will be merged with the WAN News Alert and will be named the Wide Area Networking Alert. You'll get Steve and Jim's analysis of the convergence and WAN market, which you will be able to read in full at NetworkWorld.com, plus links to the day's WAN news and other relevant resources. This Alert will be mailed on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We hope you will enjoy the enhancements and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters. |
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WAN optimization giants Riverbed and Cisco....which solution is right for your network environment?
ReplyDeleteTo know for sure we recommend that you test both solutions in your production environment before making the investment.
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