It’s an insecure world out there. We’re not talking geopolitically – although that’s bad enough in itself – but about the dangers that you and your company face when it comes to protecting your data and keeping bad people from doing bad things to your network. More...

I was chatting recently with Jeff Nossan, a Global Converged Solutions Manager with Sprint, about WAN acceleration. The purpose for deploying WAN acceleration technologies is to give enterprises and organizations fine-grained control over WAN traffic. They can have business-critical applications accelerated, unimportant traffic managed, and malicious traffic mitigated. The result is better application and network responsiveness, not to mention reduced bandwidth utilization. More...

There are two ways to look at the benefits of optimizing the bandwidth on your company’s wide area network, and it depends on how you spend your workday.More...

Every morning’s paper and every local news show seem to be offering tips lately on dealing with this dismal economy. Ten ways to cut your grocery bill! Eight ways to save on your kids’ clothes! This is truly helpful information for these tough times, and in that spirit, I’d like to offer up five ways that you can reduce your company’s networking costs. More...

We talked last time about ILEC special access charges and the pain they impose on an enterprise that uses T1 and other dedicated services. Until the day when (we hope) the FCC remedies this situation, it is up to enterprises to find ways to relieve the financial burden caused by excessive ILEC rates. More...

Sometimes it’s surprising just how much cumulative savings can be gained through small actions. For example, if we all used one less gallon of gasoline a week, we’d reduce our oil imports by millions of barrels a year. The same is true with bandwidth usage. If your company can use just a little less WAN bandwidth each time an application is launched or a document downloaded, it can make a huge difference both in performance and in forestalling the need to lease additional circuits. More...

Nothing puts a damper on productivity like a slow wide area network connection. But the answer to better performance doesn’t always mean upgrading the WAN to a larger pipe for more throughput. More...