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• Packeteer iShaper review
  Packeteer's combination WAN accelerator and traffic shaper is second to none in speed of CIFS transfers, and among the leaders in overall performance; however, users needing shared byte-level caching musst wait for the next release.
• RedSeal Security Risk Manager review
  Working out where a network is most at risk can be a time-consuming process. RedSeal's Security Risk Manager offers a system administrator some real assistance in working out the most vulnerable weak spots - but at a price.
• Blue Coat SG Client review
  Software for Windows XP that allows a mobile PC to work as a client to a Riverbed Steelhead WAN acceleration system.
• PacketTrap pt360 Tool Suite review
  There's a growing range of network management products that are being offered for nothing. While these don't have the range and sophistication of their paid-for competitors, they offer the system adminstrator a valuable and effective tool. We find that PacketTrap's pt360 suite has plenty to recommend it.
  
  
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• Wi-Spy 2.4x USB RF analyzer review
  This could be the answer to the Wi-Fi manager's prayer: a small but very powerful spectrum analyzer that plugs into a USB slot.
• Ruckus ZoneFlex review
  Ruckus promises a small business Wi-Fi LAN that doesn't need an IT specialist, doesn't break the bank, and doesn't compromise on features. Can it really deliver?
• Cisco 6500 Virtual Switching Supervisor engine review
  Cisco's VSS is a significant advancement in the state of the switching art. It dramatically improves availability with much faster recovery times, while simultaneously providing a big boost in bandwidth.
• Anfibia Desktop Orbiter 5.1.2 review
  A distributed desktop computer management package that allows you, from a central console, to remotely manage and control the security of a collection of Windows PCs on your LAN.
• D-Link DHP-301 Powerline Ethernet starter kit review
  Easy to set-up and use, Powerline makes it simple to bridge or extend an Ethernet network over mains cabling. Its speed is dependent on the quality of your mains wiring, but unlike wireless Ethernet, it doesn't broadcast your network to the neighbourhood.
• NetCommander review
  If you want environmental monitoring, don’t get all pretentious and aesthetically obsessed. Buy one of these.
• Consentry LANshield Controller and Switch review
  The Consentry NAC range offers a variety of products and a simple but effective way of authenticating users. By using a combination of a switch and a controller, users have a variety of ways of configuring their own networks.
• ScienceLogic Enterprise Management 7 version 5 review
  “EM7”, as the product is known, is an appliance that’s designed to manage seven (hence the number in the name) aspects of enterprise technology: networks, applications, systems, configuration, events, trouble ticketing and SLA management.
• Numara Track-It! 8 review
  Track-It! is a properly-integrated suite whose main purpose is the discovery, management and audit of assets such as a piece of hardware or a software licence.
  
• Zyxel NXC-8160 "channel blanket" Wi-Fi Controller review
  Zyxel tapped Extricom for a novel channel blanket approach to office wireless LANs. Did it cut the mustard?
• Uplogix Envoy - remote management review
  The Uplogix Envoy has been designed to make remote management of devices and despite a new quibbles, it does eveything that's asked of it.
• Iomega StorCenter Wireless Network Storage review
  A wirelessly-connected, network-attached storage box that has moderate performance, good backup facilities and a low price.
• Snort 2.7 review
  Snort has gathered plenty of plaudits as a free network monitoring package. And as we find out, that reputation has been wholly deserved - if you can find your way around the command line coding in the first place.
• SpiceWorks Desktop 1.7 review
  IT managers have traditionally been suspicious of free tools - wondering whether they'll really do all that they promise, and where the catch is. But Spiceworks is a tool that offers a range of features that many paid-for products would find hard to match.
• Netcordia NetMRI review
  The Netcordia NetMRI is a slightly different type of product, This is not so much a network management tool, more like some sort of management über-tool - but that doesn't make it any the less useful - even though it might not be an essential purchase.

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