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	Advertised broadband speeds actually pretty accurate, FCC finds There used to be three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and advertised broadband speeds. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems SAP Deployments over the WAN: The User Performance Issues A combination of foundation technologies such as compression, protocol acceleration and byte caching, along with a close and strategic partnership with SAP, deliver improved performance and reduced bandwidth requirements for SAP deployments. Read now! In this Issue Moves afoot in U.S., elsewhere to end PSTN copper lifeline HP extends Cisco switch trade-in program IPv6 Deployment Misperception: Enterprises aren't deploying IPv6 I've got a new MPLS lab. Tell me how to play with it Cloud computing and business critical applications The impact of cloud balancing on application delivery WEBCAST: Riverbed What Your Network Isn't Telling You Are your network tools outdated? This Cascade "chalk talk" shows how to monitor today's network with support for virtualization and cloud and: - Behavioral analytics that learns how your network behaves - Network drill-down to quickly spot root causes of problems - Discovery and dependency mapping of IT assets Learn more! Moves afoot in U.S., elsewhere to end PSTN copper lifeline In what may be a preview of what will happen in the United States, the Australian telecommunications giant Telstra late last month released its plan to bring a close to the old telephone world. Telstra announced it will decommission its copper customer access network and stop offering fixed line telephone service to retail customers after July 1, 2018. Read More HP extends Cisco switch trade-in program HP this week said it has expanded a trade-in program for customers looking to swap out Cisco switches for HP gear. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed What Your Network Isn't Telling You Watch as Yoav Eilat, Director of Product Marketing for Cascade, shows you how Cascade can help you truly deliver IT performance for your network. Learn more! IPv6 Deployment Misperception: Enterprises aren't deploying IPv6 And the #1 IPv6 misperception is…drumroll please…enterprises are not deploying IPv6. Uh, no. Bzzzt. Read More I've got a new MPLS lab. Tell me how to play with it I've just had Christmas in July. I've been given a whole list of lab equipment, so big that naming all the SIPs, SPAs, and line cards, would end up blowing my word count limit for one blog. So I'll just keep it at a high level. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Case Study - Large Global Bank A large global bank, one of the top 10 companies in the world, was facing several serious IT challenges as it continued to expand its operations globally. Download the case study to learn how Riverbed Steelhead® appliances helped the bank eliminate all branch-based backup, dramatically improve application speeds around the world, and more. Read now! Cloud computing and business critical applications In the last two newsletters we discussed some of the impact that virtualization is having on application delivery. In the next two newsletters we will discuss the impact that cloud computing is having on application delivery. With that in mind, this newsletter will discuss some of the issues associated with using a public cloud computing solution to support the delivery of business critical applications. Read More The impact of cloud balancing on application delivery This is the second of two newsletters that is focused on the impact that cloud computing is having on application delivery. With that objective in mind, this newsletter will look at the pros and cons of cloud balancing. Read More
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