What to do when you need more Enterprise WAN bandwidth

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	What to do when you need more Enterprise WAN bandwidth Moving on in our coverage of which of the various technologies – including those that are part of the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture, like WAN Optimization, WAN Virtualization and Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Fluke Networks Free Ethernet Connectivity Poster You know that getting connected on Ethernet is more than just illuminating a link light—now make sure everyone else is up to speed. This large wall poster covers the technical details of Ethernet connectivity including: cabling, speed and duplex settings, VLANs, DHCP and Power over Ethernet (PoE). Click to continue In this Issue Brocade buys Cisco nemesis Vyatta Enterprise Architecture Is the Steak to Cloud's Sizzle for Feds How to address WAN jitter issues for real-time applications Should wireless carriers use home Internet connections for backhaul? DARPA seeks smart camera that would blend visible, infrared images into a single shot What do 100% of mobile users want? No fails! VMware CTO: Adapt, enable choice, or die Top tools for BYOD management SJSU didn't bid Cisco project Why Cisco should buy Citrix Riverbed's billion-dollar Opnet buy could pay off big, analysts say RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial Brocade buys Cisco nemesis Vyatta Brocade has announced its acquisition of Vyatta, a privately held maker of open source-based network software, for an undisclosed amount of cash. Read More Enterprise Architecture Is the Steak to Cloud's Sizzle for Feds The U.S. Agency for International Development is the only federal agency among 27 recently surveyed by the Government Accountability Office to map out an enterprise architecture strategy, define metrics to measure its progress and actually go back to see if the plan worked. (It did.) Here's what your company can learn from USAID's enterprise architecture efforts. Read More How to address WAN jitter issues for real-time applications We continue to cover the broad topic of which of the various technologies – including those that are part of the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture, like WAN Optimization, WAN Virtualization and Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Voice Transformation: Taking the First Steps Voice has been - and will continue to be - a foundational component in business communications. But the aging, disconnected voice infrastructures of today are doing more than just impeding productivity, they're impeding progress. Find out in this AT&T article how to transform voice communication in your enterprise today. Click Here Should wireless carriers use home Internet connections for backhaul? In a thought-provoking article on GigaOM, Prakash Sangam of Qualcomm writes that cellular network capacity could be boosted up to a thousand times if households deploy "small cells" (i.e., femtocell technology) to shunt cellular traffic to consumers' DSL and cable Internet connections. Although a boon to cellular capacity, what happens when your neighbor watches the football game on his Android tabled... Read More DARPA seeks smart camera that would blend visible, infrared images into a single shot Researchers with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to build a clip-on or helmet mounted smart camera system that can meld visible, near infrared, and infrared images into a single shot under all weather and visibility conditions. Read More What do 100% of mobile users want? No fails! The rush to make everything mobile has generated new ways to do business, new ways to organize ourselves and new ways to communicate, but mobile apps aren't your father's mainframe, desktop or laptop applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now VMware CTO: Adapt, enable choice, or die To some outsiders looking in, VMware has gone through quite a change recently by purchasing two companies, embracing OpenStack enabling multi-cloud support. CTO Steve Herrod says it's all part of the broader plan. Read More Top tools for BYOD management SOTI MobiControl and SAP Afaria lead the way in five-vendor test of MDM tools Read More SJSU didn't bid Cisco project San Jose State University only negotiated with a single vendor for its five-year, $28 million IT project, opting not to put it out for bid. Read More Why Cisco should buy Citrix Earlier this week Cisco and Citrix made some noise when they announced an expanded partnership. The partnership brings together the market leader in networking and data center infrastructure and combines it with the market leader in desktop virtualization. The expanded partnership should be a "win-win-win" for both organizations and their customers, as the two companies can bring their respective strengths... Read More Riverbed's billion-dollar Opnet buy could pay off big, analysts say Despite a substantial decline in Riverbed's stock price after the news of its $1 billion acquisition of Opnet this week, industry experts say that the buyout leaves Riverbed in a uniquely strong position in the network management arena. Read More
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