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• Web acceleration protocol nears completion

  When it comes to speeding up Web traffic over the Internet, sometimes too much of a good thing may not be such a good thing at all.

• Cisco, Akamai team to boost branch performance

  Cisco and Akamai this week announced a collaboration to boost application performance for branch office sites.

• WANs could stand to get faster, survey finds

  Nearly nine out of 10 respondents to a Talari Networks survey of IT professionals said that their wide area network was a problem for business-critical applications either occasionally or frequently, as WAN budgets are set to increase over the course of the coming year.

• A10 revamps lineup on multiple fronts

  Application delivery controller manufacturer A10 Networks rolled out new hardware, pricing and connectivity with a range of SDN and cloud services today, in an announcement that serves to underline the company's recent recovery.

• Riverbed suitor takes stake in Juniper

  Activist investor, Elliott Management, which last week made an unsolicited bid to buy Riverbed Technology, this week took a 6.2 per cent stake in Juniper Networks.

• 10 top tests of 2013

  Network World tested hundreds of products in 2013, but here are our top 10 tests of the year. In order to make the list, the product review had to be a comparative test of multiple products in a single category and it had to break new ground or deliver fresh insight into an important product area.

• Stealthy startup at root of Riverbed brain drain

  Network management and WAN optimization vendor Riverbed Technologies has had a pretty successful year, in some respects – the company finalized a billion-dollar acquisition of Opnet Technologies, broadened its product lineup, and was the only company to make the "leaders" quadrant of Gartner's magic quadrant report for the WANop sector.

• Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

  Facebook's head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giant's own infrastructure.

• VMware adds networking, storage to its virtual data center stack

  At the kick-off of its annual VMworld user conference, being held this week in San Francisco, VMware will fill in more layers of its software stack for running its envisioned software defined data center (SDDC).

• Startup uses new technology to out-Akamai Akamai

  Instart Logic is taking on the likes of Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront with a Web app-streaming service it says can cut in half the time it takes to load pages and applications to wireless devices.

• Vodafone taps Cisco for 4G network analytics, traffic management

  Cisco will provide the mobile multimedia core platform for Vodafone Hutchison Australia's 4G LTE network, Cisco has announced.

• Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs

  SDNs aren't just for data center networks, despite the best-use-case-scenario arguments for network virtualization and flow management pervading the industry.

• Silver Peak announces virtual appliance for offsite replication

  Silver Peak Systems announced a new virtual application designed to dramatically speed up data duplication for disaster recovery without the purchase of additional hardware.

• Upload 100X faster to Amazon's cloud with optimization service? Not quite, one analyst says

  WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak last week announced a service that it proclaims speeds data transfers into Amazon's cloud by 100 times compared to not using Silver Peak's deduplication system.

• F5 tries to stay ahead of the curve with moves into security and beyond

  F5 Networks is best known for its high-end network management hardware, especially its BIG-IP line of load balancers. Those offerings have fueled annual revenue growth from $525 million to more than $1.3 billion since 2007, even in the face of the recent recession.