After seven months of pounding on application-acceleration gear from Blue Coat, Cisco, Riverbed and Silver Peak, we can actually attest that these devices really work. With an average acceleration ...

Packeteer is blending the functions of two of its WAN-acceleration devices into a single box, making it possible for users to address network problems that may be slowing site-to-site performance ...

We're trying to implement some WAN acceleration devices but we're running into a snag with it being unable to optimize WAN RPC traffic, like AD replication and Exchange MAPI connections. The issue ...

Akamai's announcement this week of much broader acceleration benefits-- to all IP applications, including VOIP -- extends its WAN optimization capabilities into enterprises and out to remote users.

Common Internet File System is a remote file access protocol that forms the basis for Windows file sharing. CIFS performs poorly over high-latency WAN links because it’s chatty, meaning a large number ...

As businesses become globally distributed, business applications are more dependent on the WAN than ever before. While WAN capacity is abundant and inexpensive, negative characteristics of the WAN ...

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in scalable Wide Area Network (WAN) acceleration, today announced that Symitar, a Jack Henry & Associates division that is the leading provider of core processing ...

Microsoft Corp. and Packeteer Inc. last week jointly announced a branch office appliance designed to provide WAN throughput optimization capabilities in tandem with native Windows applications. With ...

“Bare metal” cloud provider NewServers.com has added a piece of technology to their solution that will help users do an impedance match (or smooth the transition if you aren’t a EE) between ...

Wide area file services let your remote users access centralized data as if it were local, while accelerating the speed at which those drives--and the data on them--can be accessed. Remote users can ...