WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak last week announced a service that it proclaims speeds data transfers into Amazon's cloud by 100 times compared to not using Silver Peak's deduplication system.
F5 Networks is best known for its high-end network management hardware, especially its BIG-IP line of load balancers. Those offerings have fueled annual revenue growth from $525 million to more than $1.3 billion since 2007, even in the face of the recent recession.
Network acceleration vendor F5's recent purchase of LineRate Systems, a startup specializing in software-defined networking technology, is both a near-term attempt to associate itself with a hot industry technology and a canny look ahead to the future, according to experts.
A San Jose federal court this week denied A10 Networks’ request to stay a permanent injunction barring the company from selling application delivery controllers that incorporate intellectual property from rival Brocade.
Ipanema Technologies, the France-based maker of WAN optimization gear, announced Monday that it would integrate that technology into the company's AppsWork product, which is designed for use by small businesses.
A <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/102711-riverbed-252451.html">Riverbed</a> software upgrade means more efficient distribution of video over WANs and optimizing traffic that runs over satellite links.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/wan-optimization-shifting-strategic-tactical">Blue Coat Systems</a> has agreed to be bought by a private equity firm for about $1.3 billion, which will buy out shareholders for a 48% premium over what the company's stock sold for yesterday.
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Chicago-based real-estate management company Equity Office ran all its voice and data traffic over an MPLS WAN, but when poor peak-time performance drew complaints from end users, it switched to technology that delivers more bandwidth at half the cost.
The latest release of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a>'s WAN optimization product line -- Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 4.4 -- proves that the company famous for routing packets can also shape, optimize and accelerate them.
The two best things about <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wan-optimization.html">WAN optimization</a> are that it practically guarantees better response times for <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/applications.html">applications</a> while at the same time either reducing the need for WAN bandwidth or at least staving off for a while the need to boost it.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072011-riverbed-buyouts.html">Riverbed Technology</a> is launching Stingray, a new product line of devices that brings together products the company acquired last summer when it bought Zeus Technology and Aptimize Limited.
Cisco this week filled out its <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/021909-desktop-virtualization-faq.html">desktop virtualization</a> product line by adding a thin client that improves processing and bandwidth utilization for voice and video.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> is coming out with six new WAN optimization appliances that upgrade its current line of Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) gear ranging from branch office to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a>.
Strangeloop is coming out with a Web-site optimizer that speeds up page builds on mobile devices based on Apple, Android and Microsoft operating systems.