The good news is that growing demands on corporate WANs -- from telecommuters, social networks, and branch office activities -- is expected to bolster sales and stem the revenue slide this year. Continued emphasis on software as a service (SaaS), cloud computing, unified communications and other technologies that rely on network bandwidth and speed will increase the demand for WAN optimization alternatives and less costly virtual optimization techniques.
Too late for Nortel, which is selling off its CDMA/LTE unit to Nokia and position other divisions -- including quite possibly its WAN optimization division. Companies that wil benefit, however, are those smart enough to provide deployment validation to users and focus on the benefits a solution has on the applications and content zipping over a network rather than a bits-and-bytes laundry list on a spec sheet.
Read the full blog on deployment validation trends and the state of Nortel on the Window on WANs blog.
