his is the secret handshake. Your passage to an invitation-only close-up look at the innovations that are already starting to shake up the WAN world.

At WANs: Optimizing Your Network Now, you’ll get the ultimate insider’s understanding of the technological advances and nuances that are still below the radar of most WAN watchers. We’ll explore the many networking options available to you and show you how to identify which ones will support and optimize the business applications necessary to your enterprise’s success.

In one super-charged day, you’ll learn about the new products, services and techniques that will help you:

• Immediately reduce the cost of your company’s WAN utilizing compression, caching and TCP acceleration
• Identify the true application requirements, including those you may have overlooked, required to improve functionality and ensure your WAN can support your organization’s business applications
• Avoid unpleasant surprises from the often misunderstood idiosyncrasies of deploying VoIP throughout your network
• Increase performance to record levels by matching the right vendor(s) to your organization’s compression and caching strategy
• Learn why TCP Acceleration is gaining in popularity as an alternative technique for achieving dramatic performance gains
• Enhance application performance by utilizing QoS technology
• Discover easier ways to implement MPLS and why it can be advantageous to deploy MPLS in private WANs without using a service provider
• Examine the long-awaited broadband wireless services that could most impact costs, coverage and speed over the next 12 months
• Prepare for the predicted significant increase in traffic on the WAN with a minimum use of Capex and Opex

WANs: Optimizing Your Network Now will inform, surprise and inspire you. You’ll acquire insights essential to cutting costs, improving performance, and simplifying the management of your network.

This is a free, invitation-only event for pre-qualified WAN professionals. We urge you to apply today as seating is strictly limited to ensure that each attendee receives the full benefit of the presentation.

Who should attend?

Professionals who architect, design, purchase and build WANs, including:

• Managers, Sr. Managers, Directors and VPs of:
• Planning
• Network design
• Architecture
• Telecommunications
• Networking

As well as, Network Engineers and Network Architects.

Advance reservation is required for complimentary attendance.

8:00am	Registration Wide Area Networks Expo Open Continental Breakfast
9:00am	OVERVIEW Keynote by Jim Metzler on Innovations Essential to Success
9:45am	PARTNER PERSPECTIVES I Rapid-fire 15-minute partner presentations Event leader analysis, and interviews provide technology in context
10:25am	Break Wide Area Networks Expo Opens Refreshments Served
11:00am	PARTNER PERSPECTIVE II Rapid-fire 15-minute partner presentations and demos Event leader analysis, and interviews provide technology in context
11:40pm	Jim Metzler on The Three WAN Innovations That No Organization Can Afford to Ignore
12:15pm	Lunch Networking Wide Area Network Expo Opens
1:00pm	Best for Last Key takeaway from each event partner Timely and tangible, enterprise-ready, strategies and solutions

Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler and Associates
When corporations want world-class network expertise ... when vendors need smart-network insight ... when industry looks for direction and analysis of network technology, services and strategies, Jim Metzler is the man they consult. He's created software solutions for a major IXC. He's engineered high-speed data services for a top telco. And he's directed networks for two Fortune 500 firms. He brings to this event unequalled understanding of performance management, network architectures, voice over IP, IP-based VPNs, WANs, and wireless LANs.

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If you have any questions about the seminar or your registration, please call us at 800-643-4668

WANT TO BECOME A PARTNER?
To join sponsors of this premier Network World Event, or to find out more about onsite company training, please contact Andrea D'Amato at 508-490-6520 or adamato@nww.com for free, no-obligation information.

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