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WAN Acceleration:  Evaluating, Selecting and Deploying WAN Acceleration Solutions

As corporate networks continue to expand worldwide, the efficiency of the global network becomes critical. The question is how to expand the corporate network to a national or global scale without sacrificing usability and productivity. The most obvious solution for optimizing the wide area network (WAN) is the WAN accelerator. But the wide range of technologies and solutions can be difficult to differentiate and evaluate. And once a solution is selected, IT organizations are faced with the challenge of determining the optimum configuration.

This white paper highlights the performance issues associated with the WAN, explains the technologies developed to address those issues, and demonstrates the importance of real-world testing when evaluating, selecting and deploying WAN acceleration.

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Network Applications: Ensuring Performance and QoE with Network Emulation

Networked applications are pervasive in business and dependence on them is increasing. An outage, or even poor performance, can cripple day-to-day business, affecting revenues directly through lost sales and indirectly through decreased productivity. Because of the proliferation of enterprise applications and the increased complexity of systems and networks, it can be difficult to know how an application will perform on any given network or to identify the actual cause of performance issues when they arise. Because enterprise applications are rarely tested under WAN conditions, expectations of performance are often at variance to actual performance.

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Best Practices: Testing Enterprise WAN Applications

This white paper explains how to predict application performance and failure thresholds under every condition the system will encounter. It provides an overview of best practices for defining requirements and evaluating the system under consideration or development. Anue Systems supports these best practices by providing network emulation, analysis and reporting systems that establish a controlled environment for baseline and real-world performance testing.

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Winning on the WAN
Organizations in today’s network-centric world must ensure that applications run properly over private and public WANs. This White Paper addresses testing strategies to ensure that devices or applications run uninterrupted in any network condition. 

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Performing Next Gen SONET Testing using a Network Delay Emulator
Emerging technologies like Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) and Link Control Access System (LCAS) are enhancing the capabilities of SONET. This enhanced, or "Next Generation," SONET can efficiently transmit Gigabit rate Ethernet data and can dynamically right-size SONET connection pipes to meet bandwidth demands. This White Paper describes the new and unique challenges involved in network latency testing and in validating Next Generation SONET solutions.

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Anue Network Emulator vs. Fiber Spools
To learn more about how Anue Emulators compare with Fiber Spools, view: "White Paper: Anue Emulator vs. Fiber Spools"

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