The benefits of WAN optimization products are clear. Using compression and latency-reduction algorithms, they essentially increase the amount of traffic that can travel across a WAN link. The benefits ...

Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. The Interior Department has included WAN optimization into the agency’s IT transformation initiative, which seeks to eliminate ...

Poorly performing WAN links continue to be the bane of many network administrators. Wherever there is a WAN link, there will be performance degradation caused by latency and chatty protocols. Simply ...

WAN optimization technology makes more efficient use of wide area links to the point that businesses can actually reduce bandwidth or at least put off the need to buy more. Gartner says to expect the ...

It’s an old adage by now — “old” in Internet years, that is. If you build bandwidth, users will come. But as WAN optimization technologies continue to advance and gain features, it makes them an ...

Open source SD-WAN vendor flexiWAN announced an integration with Clevernet's artificial intelligence-powered WAN optimization platform this week. According to flexiWAN CTO Nir Ben Dvora, the ...

Expand Networks is demonstrating wide-area network optimization over low-bandwidth, high-latency links at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this week during the 2008 ...

Returning to our discussion on virtual appliances one of the areas where we are seeing a lot of use of virtual appliance technology is in the WAN optimization market. WAN optimization has been atop ...

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 ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

How do I calculate the time taken for a file (in megabytes) to be transferred over a WAN link (128 Kbps, 256 Kbps or 2 Mbps), and what are the different parameters I should consider to take into ...