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	Where is your WAN going? For many years, WAN services were extremely straight-forward. For most of the 1980s, you had dial-up services, and both analog and digital point-to-point "Digital Transmission Services," a.k.a. "private lines". And the only major evolution was that you could go faster as your traffic increased with a lower cost per bit-per-second. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Vyatta Open Networking Vyatta Network OS – Complete Routing & Security The network is changing and Vyatta's open networking software is the only solution that allows you to connect and secure physical, virtual & cloud architectures with a single network OS. Easily add flexible, high-performance routing, firewall, VPN, IPS and more to x86-based systems, VMware, XenServer and more. Click to continue In this Issue Dish network for the enterprise How we tested HughesNet's service 50% of firms worried about security of Web 2.0 tools A 12-step program to redeem Big Media WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Accelerating File Services Across Your WAN Many techniques optimize WAN performance, but only Blue Coat delivers them all. Learn how Blue Coat's patented ProxySG Acceleration edition technology complements WAN optimization with superior security—integrated into one family of acceleration appliances and client software. Free the WAN with Blue Coat. Read now. Dish network for the enterprise Despite the widespread availability of wired broadband, there are still scenarios where an enterprise might consider satellite connectivity. And that led us to conduct a groundbreaking test of the HughesNet VSAT service. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent A 'hands-free' approach to optical networking With unmatched scalability and performance, Alcatel-Lucent has a future-proof, Carrier-grade WDM solution which enables the flexibility, intelligence and reduced time to revenue data centers require and offers key tools for successful deployment: training, network management, spares and support. Read now How we tested HughesNet's service We used two Dell 1950s (8 core Intel Xeon server running XenServer), one as a host for a Vyatta router and the other clustered to the HP DL580 G5 (16 core Intel Xeon server), along with another non-clusterd HP DL585 G5 (16 core AMD server as Sharepoint VM host), all running VMware ESXi 4.1. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Delivering Faster Applications to Any User, Anywhere This guide looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within a WAN Optimization environment. Read More 50% of firms worried about security of Web 2.0 tools Half of the firms are concerned about the security of web 2.0 tools including social media, says McAfee. Read More A 12-step program to redeem Big Media Big Media needs to change its thinking; Mark Gibbs has a program for them Read More
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