Cisco and Riverbed are the two top vendors battling it out for customers in the WAN data compression and acceleration market, according a study by TheInfoPro.
In its study of 130 “decision makers” from Fortune 1000 and midsize businesses, half said they plan to use WAN data compression and acceleration technologies in the next 12 to 15 months. According to TIP, “Cisco has assumed the position of lead ‘in plan’ vendor over Riverbed – by a nearly two to one margin – for Enterprise organizations’ WAN Data Compression and Acceleration technology needs. Packeteer, Expand Networks, Juniper, Blue Coat and F5 Networks were also mentioned as providers under consideration.”
A TIP press release reads:
Within those organizations that currently have WAN data compression and acceleration in use, spending on these technologies is expected to increase 39% – one of the largest jumps in spending among the data infrastructure segment. WAN data compression and acceleration technologies was Number 3 on TIP’s technology Heat Index, which gauges the immediacy of user needs and planned spending for each technology, coming in behind only 10Gigabit backbone upgrades and continuing adoption of SSL VPN. In comparison, the Wave 2 Study saw WAN data compression and acceleration technologies in the Number 10 spot.
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