Miercom Report on Huawei's AR Series Routers
[ Source: Huawei Enterprise USA ]
August 2012-
Find out why Miercom, a major networking testing and certification consultancy, awarded Huawei's AR Series Routers their coveted Performance Verification Award. Miercom was impressed with the routers' high marks in access and interconnection capabilities.
These routers provide a rich set of functions including routing, switching, voice, security, and wireless capabilities while also supporting plug-and-play configuration and deployments using a USB flash drive.
Their key findings on the Huawei's AR Series Routers ...
Miercom Report: Huawei S5700-LI Series Switches
[ Source: Huawei Enterprise USA ]
August 2012-
Miercom, a major networking testing and certification consultancy, recently awarded Huawei their Performance Verification Award for the S5700-LI series of Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switches. These GE switches were honored for their forwarding performance, advanced features, interoperability, resilient architecture, and energy efficiency.
The S5700-LI series GE switches (S5700-LI) are next-generation energy-saving switches developed to meet the demand for high-bandwidth access and Ethernet multi-service aggregation. Based on cutting-edge hardware and Huawei Versatile ...
Running on Faith - The Risk of Inadequate Network Testing
[ Source: Spirent ]
July 2012-
The roster of enterprises that have suffered costly and damaging lawsuits as a result of outages or security breaches would be shorter had those organizations invested in testing a vital, mission-critical foundation of the modern enterprise, the network infrastructure.
Best-practices enterprise network testing includes discovering performance limitations and validating vendor claims during acquisition, performing the due diligence of proof-of-concept for network designs or upgrades, and planning for headroom and growth as requirements change.<...
WAN and VPN Solutions: Choosing the Best Type for Your Organization
[ Source: XO Communications ]
November 2011-
In enterprises today, Wide Area Networks (WANs) are no longer operating behind the scenes. WANs are central to the daily operations and core business of organizations large and small. However, enterprises must choose from a variety of ways to implement WANs. This white paper examines the various types of Wide Area Networks (WANs), and why IT departments gravitate towards specific WAN solutions. In addition, the paper provides constructive guidelines for organizations seeking Local Area to ...
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
[ Source: XO Communications ]
October 2011-
Today's enterprises are faced with a number of network-related needs that are challenging from a technology and a financial perspective. Organizations are looking for proven, cost-effective solutions to:
• Create and improve disaster recovery infrastructures
• Replace outdated hub-and-spoke architectures
• Meet increasingly complex network requirements
• Prioritize applications, such as VoIP
• Maximize performance while minimizing costs
Your enterprise might have one or many of the needs ...
The Evolution of LAN Bypass Technology: Lanner's Generation One to Generation Three Bypass
[ Source: Lanner Electronics ]
October 2011-
Software stability is a major issue on any platform, but especially network appliances since it could affect the availability of a network. Anyone who uses software has most likely experienced problems that hang and/or force a reset of a computer or program. Such problems also occur in network appliances, and there may be times when there are no administrators around to get the appliance up and running again when things go wrong. The interruption ...
Tips to Improve Network I/O Performance on Virtualized Servers
[ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011-
Traditionally, virtualized servers have relied on the hypervisor to fully manage data flow, providing powerful services and management capabilities, but also introducing overheads that dramatically impact network I/O performance. The new PCI standard, single-root I/O virtualization, or SR-IOV, has emerged to address these performance issues.
This solution brief explains how to cost-effectively improve network I/O performance on virtualized servers and comply with the new standard.
Server Virtualization: Achieve Higher I/O Performance and Maintain Hypervisor-based Services
[ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011-
Citrix partnered with Solarflare to develop a unique unified approach to SR-IOV that delivers unprecedented cut through I/O performance while maintaining full hypervisor-based management.
As a result, virtualized servers can now benefit from accelerated network performance as well as hypervisor-based services and management capabilities.
Learn how to achieve higher I/O performance, scale to consolidate more workloads, and maintain efficient hypervisor-based services and management.
Social Networking Site Accelerates Network Performance
[ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011-
myYearbook, an innovative and rapidly growing social media site, must manage the extraordinary demands caused by the explosive growth in traffic.
To do so, its engineers need to stay ahead of the curve on the deployment of leading edge technologies which both meet its current performance demands, but also provide headroom for growth.
Learn how myYearbook upgraded its infrastructure to improve network performance.
How to: Accelerate Web 2.0 Application Performance
[ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011-
Memcached is a widely deployed distributed database caching technology implemented by tens of thousands of Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Salesforce.com, Wikipedia, and Craigslist. Memcached accelerates dynamic web applications, and is an important part of many social networking and big data infrastructures.
Discover how Solarflare's 10GbE technology accelerates user access to Web 2.0 and learn how to improve the efficiency of the infrastructure to provide a better user experience, while managing ...