How to make cross-carrier QoS work for real-time apps

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	Design solutions to make cross-carrier QoS work for real-time apps Peter Sevcik and Rebecca Wetzel: In our last blog we explained how inadequate QoS standardization across carriers degrades real-time application performance to unacceptable levels in multi-carrier corporate WANs that grow higgledy piggledy. Getting QoS to work along the long chain of different administrative domains we described requires a herculean effort. This week we again draw on our colleague John Bartlett's first-hand experience, this time to describe how to revamp a corporate WAN to make real-time applications run well. Read More E-GUIDE: HP ProCurve Standards to Soothe Networking Headaches Is you network comprised of multiple switching tiers running proprietary protocols capable of handling next-generation applications? This Network World eBook looks at open, virtual switching, unified fabrics and bandwidth of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and more. Get expert advice on how to turn your network into a more simplified, open infrastructure. Read Now. In this Issue A10 pushes into IPv6 migration Social networking given the spotlight at Demo Top U.S. domain name registrars lag on DNS security Comcast, Netflix report rise in IPv6 activity OpenDNS reaches milestone in DNS services Sprint, Clearwire warm up to LTE IT spending reform plan: More efficient systems Draw an IT road map for where the business wants to go WHITE PAPER: NetScout Virtualization Simplified Industry analyst Jim Metzler helps identify how to overcome the challenges of managing virtualized server environments in this in-depth whitepaper. Read now. A10 pushes into IPv6 migration A10 is joining the growing number of vendors pushing IPv6 migration products. Read More Social networking given the spotlight at Demo With social networks such as Facebook and Twitter taking up more and more of our time and attention, the Spring Demo conference was loaded today with technology designed to make it easier and faster to share and pull together information. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipswitch The Value of Network Monitoring Even the most knowledgeable and capable network administrator is only as good as the network information that is visible, and that he or she can manage and act on. Administrators need to know what's happening on their networks at all times, and as this paper explains, that's where network monitoring comes in. Read now. Top U.S. domain name registrars lag on DNS security The leading domain name registrars in the United States appear to be dragging their feet on the deployment of DNS Security Extensions, an emerging standard that prevents an insidious type of hacking attack where network traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or user knowing. Read More Comcast, Netflix report rise in IPv6 activity The Internet industry is seeing evidence that more consumers, corporations and Web sites are deploying IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. But IPv6 remains a fraction of Internet traffic, and it's nowhere near where it should be given the rapid depletion of IPv4 addresses. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps IT Service Management: Beyond the Myths Discover best practices and supporting technologies that deliver the straightest path to service reliability, operational efficiency and effective ROI. Also, examine three case studies that show how IT service management works in the real world. Read More! OpenDNS reaches milestone in DNS services It doesn't sound like a lot, but OpenDNS's one percent of the world's market is a significant figure. Read More Sprint, Clearwire warm up to LTE The CEOs of both Sprint Nextel and its WiMax partner, Clearwire, signaled on Wednesday that they might move to LTE (Long-Term Evolution) in the future. Read More IT spending reform plan: More efficient systems One of the hardest-hit industries in the recession was financial services, the largest consumer of corporate servers, representing nearly 25% of the market. And while Wall Street is starting to get back on its feet, the financial-services companies are undoubtedly going to be far more frugal with their capital investments. Read More Draw an IT road map for where the business wants to go A successful enterprise architecture project can help unlock an IT department's true value to the business it supports. EA, as a discipline, allows an organization to compare its near-term business objectives with its current technological capabilities and then make intelligent decisions about what it can reasonably expect to accomplish. Furthermore, the gaps that are identified represent opportunities for future IT investments. Read More
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