* Net optimization vendors are bolstering their product portfolios, expansion efforts and educational offerings
* FastSoft’s approach requires just one device per connection
* Cisco appears on more companies’ WAN optimization shopping lists than any other vendor, research group says
* Network giant wins 1,000 WAN optimization customers in less than a year
* Global scale distinguishes Virtela’s application acceleration services
* TriQuint Semiconductor boasts five-fold improvement in data backups since deploying Silver Peak WAN acceleration gear
* Vendors bundling more optimization options, service providers prepping more managed offerings
* Ceridian blurred the boundaries between its IT groups as it shifted to delivering applications over the Internet
* Making the most of new traffic management gear spurred Ceridian to revamp its IT structure
* The willingness of WAN optimization veterans to share their engineering knowledge and market experience with Microsoft is useful and refreshing, says one analyst
