| Google Launches M-Lab Measurement Tools Today Google launched a new public service aimed at testing your ISP's practices and performance. The Internet community has been struggling with the thorny topic of Net neutrality. What has been missing from the heated debate is hard data. Now you can get your own data and let your measurements be added to the common database in the cloud. The site called M-Lab hosts three cool test tools with more coming. It is also a repository of information and pointers to other performance measurement tools. The hard and fast rules of renegotiating WAN contracts Today, we continue our discussion of the types of IT initiatives that will be popular in 2009. The last two newsletters on this topic discussed cutting WAN costs by moving to MPLS and by renegotiating with your WAN service provider. Today we'll continue our focus on renegotiating contracts. Tandberg announces Profile, a high-quality videoconference system Tandberg is introducing a high-definition videoconferencing system that falls short of the total-immersion telepresence experience provided by some of its other products, but it also costs significantly less. Juniper names ex-Nortel exec CMO Juniper this week named its third chief marketing officer in as many years with the appointment of former Nortel executive Lauren Flaherty. Cisco launches major green push with EnergyWise Cisco launched a major green initiative Tuesday that includes free software to help customers use their networks to automatically turn off computers and network gear at night and whenever they aren't being used. Net management earnings show promise As many companies gird for difficult economic times, a handful of network and application performance management vendors continue to report positive news. Video: HP alliance optimizes ProCurve switches ProCurve ONE, is aimed to bring software for security, application acceleration and other functions right into the network. How to Improve Effective Throughput It may surprise you to learn that more bandwidth does not necessarily mean higher effective WAN throughput. If you transfer a lot of data over a high-capacity WAN, we bet you are not getting the effective throughput you think you are--and upgrading bandwidth won't help because technical and physical constraints stack the cards against you. We describe why this is and what you can do to about it in a free report you can download here--and Peter Sevcik will discuss it in an upcoming Webinar. Here's a quick synopsis. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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