WAN-optimization gear has evolved from one-trick point products – compression boxes, QoS appliances, TCP optimizers, caching devices – into equipment that performs all these functions and saves big ...

We recently received a copy of a Netex-commissioned white paper called “The Death of the WAN Optimization Hardware Appliance: R.I.P.” The paper, by a firm curiously named Dragon Slayer Consulting, ...

It's clear the WAN optimization market is no longer a niche play. According to Gartner, WAN optimization is expected to grow from the $700 million market it was in 2006 to a $1.9 billion market in ...

Experiences like this are why WAN optimization has bolted up the IT priority list, and why we're seeing a flurry of vendor activity. Weinberger's decision came down to buying more bandwidth or buying ...

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. was struggling with a classic problem: how to protect and secure data at remote sites without putting a technical support person at each site. Giving end users ...

Wide-area network optimization has become an important technique to improve the performance and throughput of all sorts of networked applications, including some applications that depend on ...

WAN optimization in a large enterprise is a nascent and headline-grabbing market. Still, IT managers are faced with the burning question: Is it really worth the investment? The technology uses ...

You know what makes network administrators happy? Making efficient use of their equipment and eliminating “performance stinks” calls from end-users. Thus, investing in an effective WAN optimization ...

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) vendor Talari Networks released the latest version of its SD-WAN software to include integrated WAN optimization services. As part of this release, the ...

Networking manufacturer Lanner and managed service provider GTT this week announced new SD-WAN capabilities leveraging universal customer premises equipment (uCPE). Lanner, one of several ...

SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) has emerged as a revolutionary technology in the ever-evolving enterprise networking landscape. By enhancing network agility and optimizing performance, ...

Speeding up the delivery of applications and data to remote users is the No. 1 goal of WAN acceleration and optimization. Not only does it help get more done over the same amount of bandwidth — or ...