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Mobile telecom expense management: Where to cut costs
Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) enterprise environments complicate mobile telecom expense management. Learn to analyze the costs of the global workforce.
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Mobility complicates telecom expense management (TEM)
Mobile devices are challenging telecom expense management (TEM) in the enterprise. Learn why and what potential solutions may help WAN managers.
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Data center WAN optimization must meet new demands
Data center WAN optimization may relieve enterprises of the pressures currently plaguing inter-data-center WAN links.
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Get inter-data center optimization without optimizers
Before you buy a solution for inter-data center optimization, consider these steps to accelerate WAN links between data centers.
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New IT trends call for next-generation WAN optimization
Next-generation WAN optimization is needed to address the effects of newer IT trends like enterprise video, mobility, cloud computing and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
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How to optimize voice over WAN
Enterprises must learn how to architect their wide area networks in order to optimize voice over WAN environments.
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How to use iPerf to measure throughput
Learn how to use iPerf, a network testing tool to measure throughput and benchmark your WAN links.
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Calculating the cost of VPN links for an upgrade
Do you need to upgrade the bandwidth of your virtual private network (VPN)? Calculating link capacity will help control the cost of VPN links.
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Hardware vs. software VPNs: Choosing the right solution
Deciding between hardware vs. software VPNs is the first step in narrowing down the best VPN solution for your enterprise.
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Ensuring private cloud performance assurance
Ensuring performance assurance becomes part of IT's responsibilities when enterprises choose to adopt hybrid or private cloud computing environments.
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Cloud access options: Ways to connect to cloud services
The Internet's unreliability and questionable security keep many enterprises from adopting cloud services. But companies can consider these alternative cloud access options.
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How to find a VPN firewall solution for your enterprise
Choosing a VPN firewall solution is no easy task as the market is saturated with options. Use these tips to learn how to find a VPN firewall solution for your enterprise.
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First-hop security in IPv6
Understand the concept of first-hop security and the challenge of trying to apply the techniques currently enforced in IPv4 networks to emerging IPv6 deployments.
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Top 10 wide area network (WAN) tips for 2011
What were the top 10 wide area network (WAN) tips for 2011? We tracked the most popular pieces to give you the best WAN advice from experts in the industry.
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Video conferencing bandwidth requirements for the WAN
In this tip, learn to calculate video conferencing bandwidth requirements for all of the sites in your company across the enterprise wide area network (WAN).
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Ping latency test results: How slow is your WAN link?
Understand your ping latency test results to determine whether your WAN link needs WAN optimization, QoS or other technologies.
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IPv6 firewalls: Where are the security holes?
As IPv6 gets rolled out on enterprise WANs, so will IPv6 firewalls. However, IT should be aware of IPv6 security loopholes to adequately protect WANs.
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Preparing your WAN for 10 GbE implementation
Where can 10 GbE be used in a wide area network (WAN) and how can you prepare the WAN for such an implementation? Read this article to find out.
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Measuring WAN Latency
In this tip, learn how to measure wide area network (WAN) latency to determine whether the WAN is the source of network slowness complaints.
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How public policy will reduce WAN service offerings
Enterprises are now at the mercy of public policy and consumer pricing. Anyone who needs to procure a WAN service should keep this in mind as they build out their networks.
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Selecting WAN application visibility solutions
Weigh your options between the various WAN application visibility solutions you need to achieve better WAN management and security.
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Get application visibility with WAN network visibility
To achieve application visibility across a WAN, an enterprise needs overall wide area network visibility.
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Application performance monitoring and management intro
Understand how application performance monitoring and management (APM) solutions work and what they enable IT departments to accomplish.
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How to measure mobile expenses
Network managers can properly analyze the costs of remote and mobile workers with mobile expense management. Learn how in this tip.