WAN Virtualization - Per-flow vs. per-packet advantages

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	WAN Virtualization - Per-flow vs. per-packet advantages This is the third of a series of four newsletters where we're sharing excerpts from the Webtorials Thought Leadership Discussion on WAN Virtualization. This series features a "virtual discussion" with Keith Morris from Talari Networks and Thierry Grenot from Ipanema Technologies, the two leading companies in the WAN virtualization space, and today we found an area where there's a significant and most interesting difference between the two companies and their approaches. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Equalizer approved for Load Balancing Coyote Point is one of the select manufacturers on Microsoft's approved vendor listing for load balancing MS Exchange Server 2010. See this and other deployment guides that show how easy it is to add performance and availability to the Microsoft applications you rely on every day. Read More In this Issue 25 tech touchstones of the past 25 years John Chambers on the network Living Legend: Vint Cerf on the Internet and out-of-this-world communications Living legends: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe Living legends: Radia Perlman, Layer 3 wizard More than two decades after inventing the Web, Berners-Lee fights to keep it open Living legends: John Cioffi, father of DSL IEEE investigates Ethernet bandwidth needs Groups ask FCC to investigate AT&T broadband caps FCC chairman defends net neutrality rules WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Wi-Fi Provides RX for Healthcare Challenges This paper looks at how healthcare providers are using wireless LANs creatively to improve patient care and to realize much-needed cost efficiencies. Read now! 25 tech touchstones of the past 25 years Read More John Chambers on the network The network is more important today than at any time in history. In the last 25 years it has had a transformative effect on the way we all live, work, learn and play but I believe it will deliver even greater change in the next decade than it has in the last quarter century. Read More Living Legend: Vint Cerf on the Internet and out-of-this-world communications Vint Cerf is one of the most recognized network engineers of all time. He is often referred to as one of the "fathers of the Internet" for his groundbreaking work as a co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He shares that title with colleague Robert E. Kahn. The two have been granted many prestigious awards for helping to build a technology that has arguably altered the course of human history more than any other. Read More DOWNLOAD: Aerohive Free Wi-Fi Planning Tool with New Auto Placement Feature With Aerohive's FREE web-based planning tool, you can plan a Wi-Fi deployment in no time! Upload your floor plan, draw the perimeter and walls using different wall types, and place any of a variety of different Aerohive APs either yourself or with our new auto placement feature to ensure the coverage level you specify. Learn more! Living legends: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe It's hard to overestimate the importance of Ethernet to networking over the past 25 years. When Network World started, the technology had been around a while, but in the last 25 years we have seen Ethernet come to dominate the industry. It has outlasted Token Ring, ATM, FDDI and other competing LAN technologies. It has extended from the LAN into the wide area and wireless realms. Through technologies like switching and QoS controls, Ethernet has become the foundation technology for most networking communications today. Read More Living legends: Radia Perlman, Layer 3 wizard As important as Spanning Tree has been to the acceptance and spread of Ethernet, making it possible to link Ethernet segments without creating loops and packet storms, its inventor, Radia Perlman, says she always thought it was a bad idea. Read More More than two decades after inventing the Web, Berners-Lee fights to keep it open A look at how the Web's inventor sees his creation more than two decades after its birth. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More Living legends: John Cioffi, father of DSL John Cioffi was there when Bell Labs decided in the 1970s to turn the single remaining analog part of the AT&T network - the twisted-pair copper wires that run to each customer's home - into a digital connection; 30 years later he's still at it. Read More IEEE investigates Ethernet bandwidth needs The IEEE standards body is forming a committee to assess the future bandwidth needs of large organizations and service providers, with an eye toward next steps in Ethernet standards. Read More Groups ask FCC to investigate AT&T broadband caps Two groups call for an FCC investigation of AT&T's new broadband caps. Read More FCC chairman defends net neutrality rules House Republicans say existing antitrust laws are enough to protect broadband customers from selective blocking by providers. Read More
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