WAN Optimization

Verizon acquires EdgeCast to boost video capabilities

Verizon will be able to offer more enterprise services to improve video streaming performance and protect websites against attacks

Alcatel-Lucent helps mobile operators find cell sites to improve network coverage

Alcatel-Lucent has teamed up with site owners to build a database of locations where network operators can install small cells

Riverbed’s next great hope for redemption

The WAN optimization leader recently presented its platform for "location-independent computing."

Cisco claims scuttled by VMware

NSX supports multiple hypervisors, and no hypervisors; and endpoint policy and profile changes do not impact scale

Riverbed wins 7-vendor WAN optimization test

Challengers Ipanema and Exinda score high marks for innovation

Stealthy startup at root of Riverbed brain drain

Startup Jut lands $20 million initial funding round

Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

Social networking giant uses software defined networking (SDN) to wrest more control of its network gear from vendors

ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence

Apple iOS 7 surprises as first with new multipath TCP connections

iOS 7 first large-scale, commercial use of resilient TCP extension

A response to Padma Warrior’s “Limitations of a Software-Only Approach to Data Center Networking”

With the launch of VMware NSX Cisco has been in full defense mode - but does their defense add up? Let's examine Ms. Warrior's claims and see.