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 ...

Huawei Enterprise Value Proposition [ Source: Huawei Enterprise USA ]

August 2012- In a world where innovation and business requirements evolve at ever faster rates, enterprises are looking for ways to adopt and deploy new technologies much more quickly and efficiently. One of the main challenges facing enterprises today is how to simplify the integration of these new technologies and solutions with existing ones.

Learn how Huawei is changing the game and doing things that other vendors simply cannot do.

Reducing Network Complexity and Boosting Performance with IRF Technology [ Source: HP ]

August 2011- The fundamental nature of networking is changing, especially in enterprise data centers. With new, integrated applications deployed against large scale, highly virtualized server farms, server-to-server center communications are demanding a completely new level of intra-data-center performance. Traditional three-tier networks - designed to support data-center-in/data-center-out traffic and built using legacy, poor-performing redundancy protocols - can't deliver the server-to-server capacity required for these types of workloads. One innovation is Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF), a technology that ...

6 Ways to Calculate Returns from your Network Monitoring Investment [ Source: InterMapper ]

May 2011- All network management teams have two things in common: their budgets are tight and their user communities expect reliable network performance. Financial constraints put all technology investments under a microscope; even technology that ensures network reliability. Depending on an organization's business model, network infrastructure and overall goals, return on investment (ROI) for network monitoring might be realized in five minutes or over five months. This paper outlines the areas in which network monitoring, mapping and ...

Top 8 Reasons SMBs Need to Monitor their Networks [ Source: InterMapper ]

April 2011- If you are responsible for administering the IT infrastructure at a small-to-medium size business (SMB), using network monitoring, mapping and alerting software can help you do your job better by maximizing network uptime and efficiency. These tools are generally powerful, easy to use and affordable. After you enter the most important pieces of equipment to monitor, they just run in the background - only alerting you to active or impending issues related to hardware, software ...

Paving the Way to Risk-free Change: Guide to consolidating IT systems and rolling out new services in a payment processing environment [ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]

September 2010- As the economy continues to improve, banks and payment processors are focused on expanding market share, new product offerings and operational efficiencies as part of their long-term survival and growth strategies. New service roll-outs, migration efforts and consolidation projects are translating into a whole new set of IT performance challenges and operational risks. At the same time, IT systems are also being looked at as an integral component of a financial risk management strategy. The ...

Data Centers Save Money With Network Convergence [ Source: EMC/Brocade ]

September 2010- When it comes to making data centers more efficient, IT managers have a new option, thanks to an emerging trend: network convergence. A blend of new technologies, open industry standards and combined service offerings from storage and networking leaders is pushing network con­vergence plans to the forefront in innovative IT organizations.

Network convergence provides an evolutionary path to modernization rather than being just another costly rip-and-replace solution. That means IT managers can ...

Achieving Network Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Compliance [ Source: Netcordia ]

April 2010- For IT organizations, the impact of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) can be huge in terms of amount of time and resources consumed. Even though the compliance mandate should improve consistency and standardization across the network infrastructure, the new requirements are a huge burden for IT organizations.

The staff must first understand the new requirements and then the amount of time and effort to manually implement the standards is ...

The Top 25 Network Issues and Their Business Impact [ Source: Netcordia ]

April 2010- The Top 25 Network Problems and Their Business Impact brochure details the top issues that network managers face today. It explains each issue and illustrates the business impact of common network problems to their managers.

The brochure bridges the gap between the technical issues important to the network engineer/manager and the executive’s focus on the impact of the overall service quality and end users. You can use it to facilitate a conversation ...

Best Practices For Virtual Infrastructure Management [ Source: Brocade ]

April 2010- Virtualization puts a new kind of management strain on the network. Find out how to invest in open, virtual, application-savvy network infrastructure improvements.

2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers [ Source: Citrix ]

September 2009- See who is in the Leaders Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers.

Carrier Ethernet Technology Comparison [ Source: Brocade ]

February 2010- Ethernet has become a standardized plug-and-play service offered to Enterprise and business users. An Ethernet service is usually offered to a customer through a physical Ethernet interface as the point of attachment. However, beyond the attachment point, Ethernet services may operate over native Ethernet networks or other transports services, such as Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). This white paper addresses MPLS, MPLS-TE, PBB, PBB-TE, and RPR features and capabilities for use in Carrier Ethernet deployments.