WAN Virtualization technology: 'RAID for WANs'

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	WAN Virtualization technology: 'RAID for WANs' Last time, we looked at the analogy between WAN Virtualization and RAID at the business benefits level. Here, we examine the parallels from the technical point of view. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Silver Peak World's Highest Capacity Virtual WAN Op Need replication between data centers? Adding VoIP or video to an existing network? Centralizing applications? Need to "fan-in" multiple remote offices? Consolidating data centers? Want some relief on next year's bandwidth budget? The VRX makes it possible to move more data across longer distances for less money. Download today. In this Issue Cool Summer Gadget Guide Leading Internet prognosticator still pessimistic about IPv6 What are the killer apps for software defined networks? SDN/OpenFlow has Cisco jumping HP to showcase its SDN capabilities at Interop Tokyo Top-Level Domain Name Grab: ICANN Reveals Results AT&T works on expanding Toggle BYOD service to PCs, Macs Porn maker's lawsuit against roommate threatens free Wi-Fi Snopes.com debunks old C++ 'interview' hoax RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Your IT Career Roadmap This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue Cool Summer Gadget Guide Read More Leading Internet prognosticator still pessimistic about IPv6 Geoff Huston, an Australian researcher whose predictions about IPv4 depletion dates have proven uncannily accurate over the years, is still not certain that IPv6 will get deployed in time to avert an addressing crisis across the Internet. Read More What are the killer apps for software defined networks? With its ability to decouple network control from the physical infrastructure, OpenFlow and software-defined networks have been touted as the Next Big Thing in networking. They've been pitched as a way for cloud service providers and webscale companies like Google, Facebook and Yahoo to ease or automate network configuration and reconfiguration, and quickly add more functionality without manually touching each and every switch or router in the network. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Traditional WLAN vs. ADTRAN's Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN) The substantial differences between a traditional hardware controller-based wireless LAN and ADTRAN's virtual wireless LAN (hypervisor-based) are detailed in ADTRAN's WLAN vs. vWLAN comparison chart. Learn more. SDN/OpenFlow has Cisco jumping You can gauge the promise of an emerging technology by the reaction of the biggest legacy player potentially threatened by the new arrival. It walks a fine line between jumping in too quickly and sanctioning a nascent movement that may not otherwise get off the ground, and reacting too slowly and losing advantage to fleet-footed upstarts. Read More HP to showcase its SDN capabilities at Interop Tokyo HP will be showcasing its strategy and developments in the software-defined networks (SDN) space at the technology conference Interop in Tokyo on Friday. Read More Top-Level Domain Name Grab: ICANN Reveals Results From .app to .blog and .google to .windows, corporations are staking their claims on a new set of top-level domain names, which will be issued by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Read More WHITE PAPER: Motorola WiNG 5 Wireless LAN: Delivering Better Quality of Experience Can your wireless network infrastructure handle the growing numbers of mobile devices taking significant bandwidth bites out of your network? The good news is that with smart, cost-effective wireless infrastructure investments, not only can you scale quickly to secure the growing number of devices you serve, but also optimize their performance. Learn More. AT&T works on expanding Toggle BYOD service to PCs, Macs AT&T plans to extend its dual-personality software for mobile devices, called Toggle, to provide a walled-off and encrypted work environment within PCs and Macs as well as mobile devices. Read More Porn maker's lawsuit against roommate threatens free Wi-Fi Read More Snopes.com debunks old C++ 'interview' hoax For anyone bearing the brunt of an Internet hoax that just won't die, there's little more to hope for in terms of potential relief than a story on Snopes.com stating unequivocally that the hoax is indeed a hoax. After all, Snopes is the gold standard when it comes to debunking nonsense. Computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup received precisely that maximum measure of support a week ago, yet the man... Read More
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