Tuesday, March 03, 2009

SMB shopping list: Consider WAN optimization controllers, Gartner says

WAN optimization controllers can increase the effective bandwidth of WAN links by as much as 75%, Gartner says
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SMB shopping list: Consider WAN optimization controllers, Gartner says

Ann Bednarz By Ann Bednarz
WAN optimization ranks among four technologies that research firm Gartner says have not been widely adopted in the midmarket - but are worth considering. Read full story

Ann Bednarz is associate news editor at Network World.

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