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VoIP over WAN tutorial
This VoIP over WAN tutorial discusses how to design your WAN for voice, how much bandwidth is needed to support VoIP and how to optimize VoIP traffic. Tutorial
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F5 Big-IP application delivery controller powers Allrecipes.com
Allrecipes uses F5 Big-IP, the application delivery controller, to deliver video, social media and other applications across 17 sites. Feature
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WAN monitoring: Should you outsource?
In-house WAN monitoring offers direct control and visibility, but outsourced network monitoring can offer certain economies of scale. It’s your call. Feature
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CoS/QoS basics: Understanding class and quality of service for WANs
This technology primer aids wide area network (WAN) engineers in understanding CoS/QoS basics. Learn what quality of service is and isn't, along with how it compares with class of service. To transform your basic IP network into a robust one that can... What you need to know
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A virtualized server requires a dynamic WAN optimization controller
Server virtualization changes a wide area network's ability to deliver applications with adequate security, storage access and QoS configurations and policies. Learning Guide
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Cloud computing adoption requires WAN optimization controllers to improve application traffic
Cloud computing adoption creates additional application traffic across the wide area network (WAN). Learning Guide
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Virtualized applications improve with WAN optimization controllers
To simplify branch offices, enterprise IT has been implementing virtualized applications, which create significant wide area network (WAN) performance problems. To overcome these application delivery challenges, a WAN optimization controller (WOC) ca... Learning Guide
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Using WAN optimization controllers for application delivery: An introduction
Achieving acceptable application delivery performance has become a priority for wide area network (WAN) managers. Learning Guide
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WAN optimization vendors: Comparison methodology and snapshot
We polled the major WAN optimization vendors for product information and compiled it to help you make a vendor comparison. Here we list the main differences between WOC providers, in brief. Vendor guide
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Evaluating Cisco WAAS WAN optimization
Cisco WAAS is a family of WAN optimization products that integrate well into the network environment and offers broad application support through Cisco's partnerships. Vendor guide
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Interop 2012: Can putting video in the cloud save WAN bandwidth?
The number of devices supporting video is growing; an Interop 2012 panel discusses whether putting video in the cloud can help lessen bandwidth burdens over the WAN. News | 11 May 2012
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Interop 2012: Mobile application delivery improved with SPDY protocol
Enterprises are demanding better mobile application delivery support. At Interop 2012, F5 answered the call with BIG-IP, a controller that supports Google's SPDY protocol. News | 08 May 2012
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Prioritizing WAN application delivery: Go beyond WAN QoS
Simple WAN QoS just won't cut it today, when enterprises need to prioritize WAN application delivery. Feature | 01 May 2012
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WAN optimization for the data center interconnect
When choosing a data center interconnect WAN optimization vendor, investigate its ability to support your incumbent storage vendor. Feature | 29 Mar 2012
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Connecticut school district deploys Comcast Metro Ethernet network
The Farmington School district in Connecticut has deployed a Comcast Metro Ethernet network to support online testing and educational applications across the district. News | 21 Mar 2012
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Higher education SaaS provider relies on F5 Big-IP for app delivery
Hobsons uses F5 Big-IP application delivery controllers to accelerate apps to users for reliable Web experiences. News | 16 Mar 2012
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Riverbed Granite enables branch infrastructure consolidation
Riverbed Granite enables branch infrastructure consolidation with its edge-VSI architecture. You can finally eliminate those last branch-based servers. News | 14 Feb 2012
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Mobility, consumerization of IT trends reshape the WAN in 2012
Mobility and consumerization of IT trends will reshape the enterprise wide area network (WAN) in 2012. Learn how in this slide show. Slide show | 10 Jan 2012
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Deploying Akamai’s Web application acceleration on a private WAN
A global manufacturer deployed Akamai’s content delivery network technology on its MPLS for Web application acceleration, a technology usually reserved for the Internet. News | 15 Nov 2011
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Riverbed to develop PCoIP optimization, improve VDI performance
Riverbed aims to improve VDI performance over the WAN for VMware View users by partnering with Teradici, the developer of PCoIP. News | 07 Sep 2011
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VDI over WAN: Performance preparations
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) over WAN environments causes slow performance. To prepare your WAN, learn in this tip how to monitor traffic and update your network design. Tip
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WAN application delivery optimization: Top 5 deployment mistakes
Believe it or not, not every performance problem can be solved with WAN application delivery optimization (ADO). Learn five common ADO deployment mistakes enterprises make. Tip
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Application delivery optimization: 5 tips for success
Application delivery optimization solutions should make efficient use of bandwidth and increase app performance, but such benefits are missed without these five tips for success. Tip
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Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) challenges over the WAN
Many virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) challenges present themselves over wide area networks (WANs). Here is how you can prepare your WAN for VDI while the technology matures. Tip
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Troubleshoot cloud application performance with SOA-based management
Diagnosing problems across distributed applications -- particularly when you don't control many of the components -- is a real challenge for IT. Understand how wide area network (WAN) engineers must embrace service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based m... Tip
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How to set up WAN simulators to test branch application performance
A wide area network (WAN) simulator is necessary for enterprise IT architects and engineers to ensure acceptable application performance to end users at branch offices. In this tip, learn how to set up any generic WAN simulator to conduct network per... Tip
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Low WAN traffic visibility challenges network performance management
Gaining WAN traffic visibility allows wide area network managers to control wide area network performance, but this is increasingly harder to do with interactive technologies like video, unified communications (UC ) and virtual desktop infrastructure... Tip
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Using QoS classification mapping to improve WAN application traffic
Differentiated services are used to control quality of service (QoS), but little is standardized to define or tag IP packets. Where standards are lacking is where vendors make their own QoS classes, which don't necessarily meet the needs of an organi... Tip
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Mapping WAN application acceleration techniques to critical apps
Use this primer on wide area network (WAN) application acceleration techniques to understand which network optimization tools are appropriate for optimizing critical applications. Tip
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WAN performance: Application delivery, optimization and the end user
A distributed enterprise, real-time applications like video, server virtualization and cloud computing all factor in to poor application performance. Tip
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chatty protocol
A chatty protocol is an application or routing protocol that requires a client or server to wait for an acknowledgement before it can transmit again. Definition
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Mushroom Networks Broadband Bonding aids enterprises at Interop 2012
Mushroom Networks CEO Cahit Akin demonstrates Broadband Bonding -- the vendor's newest product -- and explains how it helps application performance. Video
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Next-generation WAN op webinar
This webinar explains how enterprise WAN optimization must evolve from a tactical technology to a strategic, next-generation WAN op solution. Webinar
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WAN planning podcast: Future-proofing for WAN performance demands
Getting secure and acceptable WAN performance speeds under budget while keeping end users and CEOs happy can seem like an oxymoron. Listen to this WAN planning podcast with expert Bojan Simic to learn how to meet the business demands of today while f... Podcast
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Ensuring acceptable WAN application performance
In this WAN application performance video, get advice and best practices for pinpointing WAN performance problems, learn how to identify performance problems and discover key strategies for addressing performance issues from our expert. Video
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Application benchmarking for QoE podcast
In this podcast, Dennis Drogseth and Kara Gattine focus on application benchmarking and quality of experience in order to determine if networked applications are functioning optimally and users are productive. Podcast
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Interop 2012: Can putting video in the cloud save WAN bandwidth?
The number of devices supporting video is growing; an Interop 2012 panel discusses whether putting video in the cloud can help lessen bandwidth burdens over the WAN. News
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Mushroom Networks Broadband Bonding aids enterprises at Interop 2012
Mushroom Networks CEO Cahit Akin demonstrates Broadband Bonding -- the vendor's newest product -- and explains how it helps application performance. Video
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Interop 2012: Mobile application delivery improved with SPDY protocol
Enterprises are demanding better mobile application delivery support. At Interop 2012, F5 answered the call with BIG-IP, a controller that supports Google's SPDY protocol. News
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Prioritizing WAN application delivery: Go beyond WAN QoS
Simple WAN QoS just won't cut it today, when enterprises need to prioritize WAN application delivery. Feature
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VoIP over WAN tutorial
This VoIP over WAN tutorial discusses how to design your WAN for voice, how much bandwidth is needed to support VoIP and how to optimize VoIP traffic. Tutorial
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WAN optimization for the data center interconnect
When choosing a data center interconnect WAN optimization vendor, investigate its ability to support your incumbent storage vendor. Feature
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Next-generation WAN op webinar
This webinar explains how enterprise WAN optimization must evolve from a tactical technology to a strategic, next-generation WAN op solution. Webinar
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Connecticut school district deploys Comcast Metro Ethernet network
The Farmington School district in Connecticut has deployed a Comcast Metro Ethernet network to support online testing and educational applications across the district. News
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Higher education SaaS provider relies on F5 Big-IP for app delivery
Hobsons uses F5 Big-IP application delivery controllers to accelerate apps to users for reliable Web experiences. News
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F5 Big-IP application delivery controller powers Allrecipes.com
Allrecipes uses F5 Big-IP, the application delivery controller, to deliver video, social media and other applications across 17 sites. Feature
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About Application performance on the WAN
Application delivery has become the networking professional's most important goal. Excellent application performance on the WAN requires understanding the behavior of your company's business-critical applications (such as Oracle and SAP), how they interact with other applications, how to perform applications monitoring, and putting performance metrics in place to ensure they are working at acceptable levels for users across the WAN at all times.