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• ​Spark Digital unveils faster alternative to fibre installations

  Telco launches WAN in a Week, billed as a faster alternative to fibre installation for business customers.

• Netgear to target mid-market with future SDN capability

  While much of the hype for software-defined networking is focused on large-scale data center deployments, some companies are taking a different angle.

• Cisco will be leaner, faster, more attentive, Chambers pledges

  LAS VEGAS: <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> CEO John Chambers briefly addressed the company's current challenges, restructuring and imminent layoffs during his keynote address at this week's Cisco Live customer conference.

• IPv4 address transfers must meet policy, ARIN chief says

  The chief executive of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) said today that any transfer of IPv4 addresses from one organization to another will need to be compliant with established ARIN policy.

• Riverbed creates user interfaces for business managers

  WAN optimization provider Riverbed Technology <a href="http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2011/press_020711">announced Monday</a> a new set of interfaces aimed at helping company executives and business managers understand how well their applications are meeting business service levels.

• How to reduce WAN costs

  There are basically two ways to cut WAN costs: reduce the amount of bandwidth used or find somebody who sells cheaper bandwidth.

• FX Networks claims boost from WAN optimisation

  High performance internet and Ethernet services provider FX Networks claims more granular control over its international bandwidth and up to a 10% increase on the yield in its network following its adoption of WAN optimisation tools.

• Trade Me WAN optimisation improves continuity

  Trade Me is using WAN optimisation appliances to boost its regional links and to improve business continuity.

• Vista via WAN not an optimisation cure-all

  Windows Vista has users buzzing about network performance improvements, but industry watchers caution that the new operating system is no WAN-optimisation panacea.

• Transportation authority speeds its WAN with Silver Peak

  Sound Transit in Seattle has unclogged WAN links that hindered railway-improvement projects by using WAN-optimisation gear that made traffic run faster and cost much less over time than other options.

• Traffic shaping shapes up firm's WAN performance

  A project to consolidate servers in a central datacentre highlighted the need for global law firm Reed Smith to use traffic-shaping technology to ensure that its most important applications perform well on its WAN.

• WAN optimisation works at US govt agency

  Chris Finucane recently received an unsolicited email from a user who wanted to know why his files were suddenly flying over the WAN. The question &#8212; which came from someone who often complained about network sluggishness &#8212; surprised Finucane. &#8220;If users notice the difference without you asking, you know you have something good,&#8221; says Finucane, who is CTO for the Office of Inspector General for the US Department of Health.

• The art of speeding up ‘chatty’ CIFS WAN traffic

  Common Internet File System is a remote-file access protocol that forms the basis for Windows file-sharing. CIFS performs poorly over high-latency WAN links because it&#8217;s chatty, meaning a large number of back-and-forth transactions are required to complete a request.

• Juniper reveals plans for advanced WAN gear

  Juniper has laid out an 18-month roadmap that includes improving the capabilities, capacity and management support of its WAN acceleration gear while offering custom acceleration for more individual applications.

• WAN optimisers make bandwidth budgets go further

  One of the surest ways for companies with expensive data links to save money is to install WAN acceleration devices. The gear pays for itself in as little as a few months, some users say.