Archive for the ‘WAN’ Category

Can UMTS technology really provide useful WAN connectivity?

February 10th, 2009 by Stefan Dominko


These days, a lot of companies want to use UMTS technology for backup WAN connectivity. Speeds seem to be very promising, and considerable even for primary WAN connections. But what about response times ? One of service providers is promising the following response times:

The impact of consolidation on WAN

August 5th, 2008 by Mitja Robas


Remember the early data centers that used proprietary protocols and platforms? Since those days, data centers have evolved to a decentralized architecture. But "retro" is in, and data centers are evolving to a centralized architecture again. Seriously, data centers are being re-centralized to consolidate computing resources (namely, servers). Consolidating data center ...