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Home > Networking > Wide Area Networks 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. Results 1 - 25 of 33 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name The Business Justification for Wireless Intrusion Prevention By : AirTight Networks Published Date: Apr 19, 2006 More and more companies are realizing that their corporate air waves are an asset that requires protection. Strong security policies have been created for wired networks. The same is now needed for the corporate air waves. This paper will discuss the compelling business reasons why an investment in wireless intrusion prevention should be made. Download Now The Remote Access Imperative in Disaster Recovery By : Aventail Published Date: Jun 21, 2006 Disaster recovery is not only needed for catastrophic events like natural disasters or pandemics, but for any event, like a snow storm or power outage that keeps your workers from getting to the office and disrupts your business. This white paper by business continuity expert Tim Clark of Fact Point Group, explores best practices for disaster recovery and the key role of SSL VPNs in that process. Download Now Rapid Branch Office WAN Expansion with a Flat IT Budget By : Blue Ridge Networks Published Date: Apr 20, 2007 Network World reports that enterprises are rapidly adding more branch offices yet must do so with IT budgets that aren’t increasing at the same rate. This is further complicated by the expansion of bandwidth-intensive applications like video conferencing, VoIP phone networks, and the drive for a paperless office. Expansion relying on carrier offerings requires more budget than is generally available. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now Benefits of Integrating an Onsite Appliance and Hosted Services for Network Monitoring By : Jumpnode Systems Published Date: Jun 08, 2007 Network monitoring software packages require complex installation, ongoing maintenance and additional costs for servers and third-party applications. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) network monitoring alternatives greatly simplify implementation and maintenance, but they rely on uninterrupted Internet access to function, often require complex VPNs or firewall modifications, and typically provide limited access to historical data. Download Now 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 benefits and clarity that TCE brings to the marketplace. Download Now Service-Embedded Network Management By : MASERGY Published Date: Dec 07, 2006 This paper will explore the problems inherent in an overlay management approach and describe a new approach that allows for the management of the wide-area network to be not only offered as a service, but actually embedded in the network itself, resulting in several incremental benefits to the enterprise. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now Business Impact Management: Measuring the Financial and Business Impact from Process to Packet By : Quocirca Published Date: Mar 14, 2007 The need to understand how the performance and problems within the technical infrastructure impacts the capabilities of the business is massive.  However, the majority of companies can only measure application and specific asset performance, whereas many issues within the infrastructure lie at the transport level, where packet switching presents both great opportunities and major issues. Download Now Wide Area Network Security and Acceleration: A Short Guide to a Faster WAN By : Quocirca Published Date: Jun 06, 2007 Wide areas networks (WANs) are essential to the majority of businesses, connecting remote locations and individuals back to centralized IT resources. But as the network is expected to handle more bandwidth intensive applications such as voice and video it is essential to ensure the WAN usage is well managed – eliminating unwanted traffic and accelerating business content. Download Now The Distributed Enterprise: Access and Management of Remote Office IT Infrastructure By : Raritan Published Date: Oct 11, 2007 While the proliferation of branch and remote offices is a positive sign of company growth, it can be a challenge for IT staffers. While many IT staffers use remote access software to diagnose and repair branch office problems, these tools are only useful if the OS and network are functioning. If the network or OS is down, additional costs in travel, time, and lost business might be incurred. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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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