Software that speeds up transmission in a wide area network. Various techniques are used including compression and the application of quality of service (QoS) parameters to packets. If an application ...

After seven months of pounding on application-acceleration gear from Blue Coat, Cisco, Riverbed and Silver Peak, we can actually attest that these devices really work. With an average acceleration ...

Packeteer is blending the functions of two of its WAN-acceleration devices into a single box, making it possible for users to address network problems that may be slowing site-to-site performance ...

Expand's portfolio of Accelerator appliances uses data-compression algorithms to boost WAN capacity without requiring bandwidth increases. The vendor's new ...

Akamai's announcement this week of much broader acceleration benefits-- to all IP applications, including VOIP -- extends its WAN optimization capabilities into enterprises and out to remote users.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Expand Networks Inc., a supplier of application acceleration solutions over the wide area network (WAN), has secured $8.5 million of funding. The funding was led by Intel Capital ...

Glen Dalgleish, vice president of infrastructure services at global perfumer Coty Inc., well remembers why he and his staff had implemented WAN acceleration technology last January: to improve ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. and Packeteer Inc. last week jointly announced a branch office appliance designed to provide WAN throughput optimization capabilities in tandem with native Windows applications. With ...

An innocent change to an AutoCAD file format has cut sharply into the ability of some WAN acceleration solutions to speed the transfer of these files, and caused grumblings in some widely distributed ...

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