Thursday, January 17, 2008

A new year for WAN optimization

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SPOTLIGHT STORY
A new year for WAN optimization

Ann Bednarz By Ann Bednarz
With the new year comes a new crop of announcements from network optimization players. Here's a quick roundup of recent product launches, market forecasts and partnership announcements helping shape the industry. Read full story

Ann Bednarz is an associate news editor at Network World responsible for editing daily news content. She previously covered enterprise applications, e-commerce and telework trends for Network World. E-mail Ann.

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1 comment:

Justin Lofton said...

For WAN acceleration, Riverbed Steelhead seems to have the best application acceleration solution.