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The "American Idol" of WAN Acceleration

Sevcik and Wetzel — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:51:55 -0400

Results of our WAN acceleration product feedback are in, and here is a quick summary of what we heard. For starters, if this were the application delivery system version of American Idol, Riverbed’s Steelhead would win.

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Tell Us What You Think of Exinda’s x800

Sevcik and Wetzel — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:43:26 -0400

Australian upstart Exinda Networks is in this week’s “ADS Customers Speak” spotlight.

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Tell Us What You Think of Blue Coat’s ProxySG

Sevcik and Wetzel — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:09:18 -0400

This week in our "ADS Customers Speak" series we ask Blue Coat Systems customers to share their experiences with Blue Coat's Proxy SG product. We've gotten some great and in many cases passionate feedback from customers of other vendors, and now it's Blue Coat's turn.

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Tell Us What You Think of Packeteer’s PacketShaper and iShaper

Sevcik and Wetzel — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:26:13 -0400

This week it is Packeteer’s customers’ turn to describe their experiences with the Packetshaper and iShaper distributed application delivery system (DADS) products. This is the last chance for the world to hear about your experiences with Packeteer-branded products, because Blue Coat is set to acquire Packeteer any day now. We know that there are a lot of Packeteer customers out there--more than 10,000 of you according to official sources--and we hope to hear from many of you.

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Tell Us What You Think of Riverbed’s Steelhead

Sevcik and Wetzel — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:23:16 -0400

While we were at spring Interop we heard a consistent theme from application delivery vendors that went something like this: "Other vendors say things about our products that aren't true to make them look better.

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Blue Coat/Packeteer combo: stiff competition for Cisco

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:12:55 -0400

Cisco is already trailing Riverbed in WAN acceleration and is about to get stiffer competition from a third vendor. Or a third and fourth vendor combined to be more exact. Now that Blue Coat Systems is buying Packeteer, Blue Coat will not only gain technology improvements, but also a fat book of 10,000 Packeteer customers it can tap into. That can't help but make the WAN optimization market a harsher competitive environment for Cisco.

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