Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

The WAN optimizer is hardware designed to reduce bandwidth consumption. WAN optimizers are designed for TCP traffic, which dominates the IP network. TCP traffic has a lot of redundancy and can be ...

A report by Silicon Valley research firm TechValidate has revealed a strong customer preference for software-based WAN optimization appliances with the associated CAPEX and OPEX (News - Alert) savings ...

One of the surest ways for companies with expensive data links to save money is to install WAN-acceleration devices. Users report the gear pays for itself in as little as a few months. The primary way ...

It has been a busy few weeks for WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors. Among the highlights is Afore Solutions’ introduction of a network acceleration appliance designed to optimize ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. — Orbital Data Inc. is looking for an edge in the busy world of WAN optimization appliances by emphasizing connectivity ranging from point-to-point to full mesh topologies. Its ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

Another company in the group I work for is considering getting steelhead WAN optimizers/accelerators. Frankly it sounds like a few useful things (particularly samba optimization) combined with ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Silver Peak Systems, the leader in accelerating data over distance, today announced that recently published market share reports from top industry analyst firms ...

Silver Peak has launched what it claimed is the biggest WAN accelerator ever — a box able to optimize, de-duplicate, compress, and encrypt 1Gbps of WAN traffic. Called the NX-9000, it’s also the first ...

Riverbed Technology Inc. today released two new models of its WAN optimization engine, the Steelhead appliance, which can now achieve network throughput speeds of up to 1Gbit/sec. over Ethernet or ...