WAN White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN by assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and prioritizing traffic to improve application performance. To be effective, bandwidth management must be perfectly aligned with business policies and priorities. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2007

WHITE PAPER: Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to discuss the role of caching, describe in detail how object caching and byte caching works, and show how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the best of the newest achievements in VSAT performance and utility and shows how these solutions could become part of the mainstream of corporate network deployment and an integral portion of commercial (and competitive) service provider offerings.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Cisco Virtual Office is a highly scalable solution for medium and large organizations looking to provide teleworkers, small offices, and mobile users with office-like experience combining voice, video, wireless, and real-time data applications in a secure environment. This deployment guide provides full details.

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Network managers and administrators face the daunting task of effectively monitoring and managing network resources while meeting user expectations for network performance across the WAN. At the same time, they have to reduce operating costs and do more with less. Read on to learn how a unified performance management (UPM) solution can help.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 27 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP's viability, regardless of which vendor's IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Centralizing data for management enables backup systems and devices to be retired from branch environments, along with maintenance contracts and tape rotation services, for immediate dramatic cost savings.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper to find out how you can change this economic model and reduce capital and operational expenses, freeing up IT budget dollars and allowing your business to invest in innovative technologies that will reduce the cost of doing business while improving the bottom line.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the use of snapshots in your data backup strategy, as well as a new snapshot product offering from EqualLogic to simplify your backup projects.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Telephony design requires a solid understanding of the drivers for Voice over IP, corporate policies for infrastructure design, and telephone components.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper you will learn about the evolution of Ethernet, the reasons VLANs were introduced, and the ways that VLANs can be used.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and other SharePoint technologies are excellent tools for a modern, web-based office environment. This white paper gives pointers on managing them.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, see how wide-area data services (WDS) is now having tremendous success in enabling server virtualization and remote site consolidation.

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 31 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how you can ensure significantly faster access to the Microsoft applications your users depend on. Download this complimentary guide to discover how an integrated advanced delivery solution can help you.

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Disk-based backup took the market by storm several years ago with a compelling proposition: replace tape with high-speed disk to speed up and simplify backup.

Posted: 15 Aug 2008 | Published: 15 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will learn about the technology and architecture driving the growing adoption of disk-to-disk backups, and in particular how EVault's solutions are your best choice.

Posted: 31 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008

WHITE PAPER: WiMAX is a new way of subscribing to mobile Internet access through a wireless connection, direct to your service provider, it gives you reliable, convenient broadband access on the go, for real-time information and entertainment.

Posted: 24 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses the top concerns of IT professionals who resist the deployment of pervasive, enterprise-wide wireless networks. It identifies these reservations based on the experience of Cisco Systems and Intel.

Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 25 Jul 2006

WHITE PAPER: A misunderstanding of the problem within your network can lead to unneeded and costly IT investments, not to mention downtime, data loss, and resource waste. This paper examines five common WAN misperceptions and how to better address them.

Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

WHITE PAPER: Avaya moves customers toward Unified Communications to support complex and flexible work environments. The consultative process begins with a business assessment to understand the communication patterns, and to see where business processes slow down.

Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the requirements of managing a highly distributed IT environment and examines how new secure remote management solutions can drastically reduce the cost, complexity and risk of managing remote locations.

Posted: 18 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: In order to keep health care providers connected to their patients it's imperative to provide scalable, secure bandwidth. This white paper details optical network solutions that can do just that.

Posted: 08 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: Some things you want to see, some you don't. Critical application traffic is something you want to see. WAN optimization solutions shouldn't blind your network management, visibility or security.

Posted: 04 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007