Topic: VPN software

30 July 2007

Riverbed speeds up traffic from laptops to data centres

By Tim Greene, Network World (US online)

Riverbed Technology claims to be able to speed up WAN traffic between data centres and individual computers without the need for a dedicated WAN acceleration appliance at both ends of the connection. Read more...

24 August 2007

The shifting sands of WAN optimisation

By Bryan Betts, Techworld

Riverbed's announcement this week that it is shipping its PC client software has underlined the fact that PCs are now powerful enough to do the job of a WAN optimisation appliance. Read more...

29 September 2004

SonicWall Distributed Wireless Solution

By Alan Stevens, Techworld

• List price: £2,536 for appliance, two access points, firmware and a PC card
• Pros:
  • All wireless traffic routed through a central firewall/VPN appliance
  • IPSec VPN for over the air security
  • fast, profile based, configuration of access points
  • rogue access point detection
• Cons:
  • Complex set of multi-layered technologies hampered by poor documentation
  • proprietary access points required
  • no site survey or automatic power tuning facilities
  Read more...

02 November 2007

Five reasons not to make the jump to Leopard - yet

By Ken Mingis, Computerworld

Of course you want to jump on the latest Apple bandwagon and upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard. But that doesn't make it necessarily a good choice for everyone. Read more...

29 November 2005

Builder uses four flavours of wireless

By John Cox, Network World,

A high tech builder with high tech clients, uses all the wireless technologies you can shake a trowel at. Read more...