Posts Tagged optimization

New Juniper WXC appliances

On Monday Juniper launched some new bits of kit in the WXC line, the WXC-1800, WXC-2600, and WXC-3400 devices.
The new appliances are partial replacements and extensions over the existing WXC platforms, and they’ve taken the additional capabilities of the platforms to reposition devices a little more cleverly than the WXC-250, 500 and 590..

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Purple and Blue – Updated Packeteer and BlueCoat merger information

So Packeteer and BlueCoat have done the deed, and Packeteer is now “A BlueCoat Company”.
Quick take-aways so far indicate the planned killing off of a significant portion of the Packeteer product line, and the maintenance of the current Packetshaper product line (Packetshaper, Intelligence Centre and PolicyCentre).

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The value in taking both paths at once.

Over time the use of multiple paths within the modern corporate network has increased. We’ve gone through a whole series of phases, and now are emerging into the 4th generation of the technology. I’ve had the (good?) fortune to experience all of these at various points, and to design networks around the deployment of these, [...]

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Purple and Blue – Packeteer and BlueCoat

So there’s loads of stuff on the net about the upcoming merger between BlueCoat and Packeteer. I’m going to add my own 2p to the thoughts, as I think that this is a potentially large issue for users of Packetshaper, iShared and SkyX devices.

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State of the Network – a response

So Network Instruments new LinkedIn.CompanyInsiderPopup(“NI”,”Network Instruments”); have published their latest State of the Network report, and it makes for some worrying reading for network managers. The report is gathered from questionnaires answered by 592 network professionals, covering geographically diverse locations, with differing numbers of users. This time Network Instruments have concentrated on three elements, Time [...]

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