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A Wide Area Network or WAN is a computer network covering a broad geographical area. Contrast with personal area networks (PANs), local area networks (LANs) or metropolitan area networks (MANs) that are usually limited to a room, building or campus. The largest and most well-known example of a WAN is the Internet. WANs are used to connect local area networks (LANs) together, so that users and computers in one location can communicate with users and computers in other locations.

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Disaster Recovery Webseminar
By : Riverbed Published Date: Jan 19, 2007
How long can your Enterprise afford to be without your data? With an accelerated disaster recovery program, you never have to answer this question. Download this webseminar and learn how advancements in wide-area data services (WDS) can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more. And hear featured customer case studies demonstrating how enterprises are putting these solutions into practice today. With lost data being a competitive liability, there is no room for downtime in today’s business world.
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ESG Lab Field Audit
By : Riverbed Published Date: Jul 16, 2007
Many companies have successfully implemented Riverbed WDS solutions within their Cisco networks. This ESG Lab Field Audit documents the success that these Riverbed customers have experienced with a focus on configurations and installation experiences. Download today and learn how Riverbed technology supports valuable networking technologies including PoE, VOIP and QoS. Access now.
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Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with Wide-Area Data Services
By : Riverbed Published Date: May 14, 2008
Did you know it's possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this white paper from Riverbed on cost-savings through wide-area data services, you'll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months through significant hard cost savings in areas such as bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation.
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Forrester Consulting - Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World
By : Riverbed Published Date: Oct 23, 2007
Are your workers going increasingly mobile? Don’t wait for their calls to slam Support when they experience poor application performance on the road. Discover in the Forrester report how companies are successfully deploying WAN optimization solutions that are specifically tuned for a mobile environment, delivering the acceleration needed to ensure consistent performance, room for new applications, and the ability to ensure end user productivity at all times.
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Gartner DCMA Report
By : Riverbed Published Date: Jan 31, 2008
This report examines how the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) solved application performance issues resulting from server consolidation. As a result of implementing an IT consolidation solution that goes beyond costly bandwidth upgrades to WAN optimization, the DCMA was able to improve application performance and overall user satisfaction. Get this report now.
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2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report
By : Riverbed Published Date: Dec 14, 2007
Riverbed positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. Analyzing strengths vs. cautions, Gartner helps organizations looking to acquire WAN Optimization Controller capabilities better understand the options.
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Managing the WAN's Migration from Plumbing to Platform
By : CA NVM Published Date: Apr 10, 2008
Today, WAN design has two distinct goals. One goal is to ensure that the WAN continues to exhibit utility-like characteristics. The other goal is to ensure that the WAN can also support the key business and application trends by adding sophisticated WAN functionality. This white paper will describe some of the key business, application and network trends in general, and will also discuss how these trends impact certain key industries.
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Stratavia’s Data Center Automation Value Proposition
By : Stratavia Published Date: May 20, 2008
This white paper provides an overview of current challenges in the modern data center, the impact those challenges have on the business, and Stratavia’s approach to solving those problems.
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Stratavia
WDS Whitepaper
By : Riverbed Published Date: Dec 08, 2006
Finally – some clarity in the application acceleration and WAN optimization space. Find out how WAFS, WAN optimization, compression, and Web acceleration technologies have come together into one powerful solution: Wide-area Data Services (WDS) in the white paper. Download today and dive into the technical specifics of WDS and understand how it can accelerate and simplify your IT infrastructure.
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Accelerating the Next Phase of Virtualization
By : Riverbed Published Date: Apr 21, 2008
How do you make virtualization a reality for your enterprise without your users taking a performance hit? Start by downloading this white paper from Riverbed. Wide-area data services (WDS) is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to deal with the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN.
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Business Value of Performance IDC Whitepaper
By : Riverbed Published Date: Aug 01, 2007
Are you looking for a comprehensive solution that addresses insufficient or congested bandwidth, impaired application performance, slow remote backup and replication or obstacles to IT consolidation? This paper will explain how Riverbed, whose product line, the Steelhead family of appliances, enables users to enjoy LAN-like access to important data and applications regardless of their location.
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Case Studies - Real Customers, Real Results
By : Riverbed Published Date: Apr 03, 2007
What do companies as diverse as Liz Claiborne, Mitsubishi Motors, LG Electronics, and Alstom Power have in common? They have all benefited from the deployment of wide-area data services (WDS) solutions from Riverbed, spectacularly accelerating their network infrastructures. From opening remote files and applications up to 100x faster to dramatically reducing backup and replication time, WDS solved common but vexing infrastructure challenges facing these diverse companies.
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Case Study Golder Associates
By : Riverbed Published Date: Aug 03, 2007
Want to better support global collaboration within your organization?  In the case study, you’ll discover how Golder Associates deployed a centralized Intranet portal with a wide-area acceleration solution that delivered LAN-like speed across the WAN. By deploying Riverbed Steelhead appliances into their existing Cisco-based network, they ensured their vast mobile workforce access to the same resources workers had at headquarters.
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Centralized Data Backup and Your WAN
By : Riverbed Published Date: Jul 05, 2006
Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with wide-area data services (WDS) solutions.
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Case Study: Extreme Savings with Riverbed
By : Riverbed Published Date: Apr 17, 2008
Want to understand how other companies are turning their Riverbed investments into cost-saving machines? Download this case study bundle and uncover the money-saving secrets of wide-area data services (WDS) from Riverbed. These four enlightening case studies about very different organizations show how enterprises can slash network and IT costs while simultaneously improving application performance and business processes.
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Guide: WAN Optimization Vendor Selection
By : Shunra Published Date: Feb 07, 2007
"Best Practices for Selecting a WAN Optimization Solution: Benchmarking Performance ROI" includes best practices for defining requirements and comparing alternative solutions, and offers a metric that IT organizations can use to select the WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest value.
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Shunra
Test Your Enterprise SOA Apps Before Rollout
By : Shunra Published Date: Oct 30, 2007
How SAP uses Shunra VE to keep production problems at bay with pre-production testing on the virtual WAN.  These testing approaches and methodologies  reached far beyond conventional application testing and have become the preferred approach to ensure success. SAP does it, so should you!
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Shunra
Finance and IT’s Views on the Cost of Mobile Working
By : Fiberlink Published Date: Oct 12, 2005
This research study, led by CFO Research in collaboration with Fiberlink provides valuable insight into how organizations are dealing with sustained growth in the number of mobile workers and the costs associated with managing them.
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Fiberlink
GlobalSCAPE WAFS Passes the Test at PHR+A
By : GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Jan 02, 2008
Patton Harris and Rust and Associates has 13 branches.  Management and IT needed a way to help these offices work on projects together to optimize company resources.  Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS gave PHR+A fast file access across branches using minimal system resources. No management is required as it operates in the background and real time byte level differencing not only reduces bandwidth usage and spikes but also the changes are sent as they happen – not when they are needed.

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GlobalSCAPE WAFS Helps Fill the Pipeline at Jordan and Skala Engineers
By : GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Jan 02, 2008
Jordan & Skala Engineers is a growing company with 5 offices.  It needed a scalable solution to optimize their network and their resources as more and more work was distributed across sites. Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS files mirror instantly in real time using byte-level differencing.  So as soon as a file is saved or closed, the file deltas appear in every other location on the network. Users are never waiting for files to upload, download, or open across a network.
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GlobalSCAPE
Is Voice Over WLAN Ready for the Enterprise?
By : Meru Networks Published Date: Nov 21, 2005
This paper explains the numerous places where VoWLAN can go to work, why most offerings fail to make it work, and how only Meru Networks' standard-based solution puts the power of VoWLAN to work at enterprise-scale.
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Meru Networks
Mobile Devices and Users: Keep Mobile Working Safe, Secure and Under Control
By : Quocirca Published Date: Jun 09, 2005
Working with technology outside the office brings many challenges.  Use of laptops has grown from limited user communities to widespread desktop replacement and broad deployment.  The complexity of managing these devices outside the walls of the office is something IT departments have learned to address.

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Quocirca
Milhouse Engineering Manages the O’Hare Airport Project with GlobalSCAPE WAFS
By : GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Jan 02, 2008
In 2005, O’Hare International Airport began a project to relocate and modernize a 2.1 million ft.2 runway. Five independent firms worked on the project design with the IT/data management led by Milhouse Engineering and Construction, Inc.  Milhouse implemented GlobalSCAPE WAFS which mirrors critical files to all sites. This provided fast local access to all project files automatically without any administrative burden and with no delays.

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GlobalSCAPE
Optimizing File Sharing and Data Back Up Over Wide Area Networks
By : GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Jan 04, 2008
Disaster can strike when you least expect it.  So how do you back up and maintain control of your data and still provide access to data in a distributed organization?  The challenges are clear...large and growing amounts of data need to be distributed across many sites yet complications such as bandwidth usage, file coherence, version consistency, and file latency all result in lost productivity.

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QoS, QoE and Total Customer Experience
By : MASERGY Published Date: Jul 03, 2007
Organizations of all sizes are evolving to an enlightened, business-focused method of choosing network services and service providers called Total Customer Experience (TCE). This white paper describes the evolution toward a TCE approach and the benef