In today’s era of distributed enterprises, the average national or international organization relies on a complex network that involves hundreds of regional locations, each connected to headquarters via a local Internet connection. Local online access lets retail chains such as restaurants and stores, process sales and payment transactions, and let branches such as banks and
Enterprises have long considered live visibility into both network and application activity to be “musthaves” for many aspects of IT planning and operations. But the greatest value and impact is achieved when those two viewpoints are brought together so that relationships and dependencies can be revealed and understood by multiple relevant stakeholders. Never has this
As pointed out in The 2014 State of the WAN Report, the vast majority of WAN traffic currently uses either the Internet or MPLS. Since the Internet came into being in the early 1970s and MPLS services have been in place for over a decade, it’s easy to conclude that neither the Internet nor MPLS
With its corporate headquarters in Cambridge and major data centres in EMEA, APAC and the US, CSR required a consistent and dependable solution to help enhance the performance of interactive applications between the semi-conductor company’s network of global offices. The company chose Silver Peak’s data acceleration software to improve the CSR infrastructure, thus reducing network
In Star Trek, it always seemed as if one second, Kirk was asking Scotty to divert more power to the shields and the next, he was demanding more power to the engines. As it turns out, this scenario isn’t all that different from those regularly faced by network and security teams at large organizations. Businesses
In this report, we’ll look at challenges that businesses are facing when it comes to understanding network and application performance, and how the lack of network information can lead to bad performance, low user satisfaction, compliance issues and costly downtime. We’ll also investigate how leading organizations in network performance and management get deep visibility into
We should state, right up front, that products based on the upcoming IEEE 802.11ac wireless-LAN (WLAN) standard are indeed going to dominate the enterprise wireless local-area network landscape.
Wi-Fi has become such an amazingly successful technology because it has continuously advanced while remaining backwards compatible. The prior generation of Wi-Fi is known as Wi-Fi-certified 802.11n. 802.11n became popular because it improved performance significantly and aided enterprises in dealing with the rapid growth in mobile devices.
Wi-Fi has become such an amazingly successful technology because it has continuously advanced while remaining backwards compatible. Every few years since the 802.11b amendment was ratified, the industry has released successive amendments increasing Wi-Fi data rates and capabilities, but even the latest Wi-Fi systems are able to interoperate with 1999 equipment built to the original
Today we see 802.11n as the standard interface on PCs, tablets, smartphones and other networked devices. This proliferation of Wi-Fi interfaces means more mobile devices and their associated data (including HD video) find themselves on corporate networks, while the capacity and data rates enabled by 802.11n may at times seem barely adequate to support this