Channel Tech Center

Adtran’s latest routers have the moxie to push Cisco from the must buy list.

At the end of the day, solution providers in the channel need viable technologies that not only sell themselves, but also create an opportunity for the solution provider to deliver downstream services that are the key to ultimately being profitable. What follows is a list of 10 technology areas that in the last year have [...]

Although speculation about the potential impact of 4G wireless networks garners most of the attention these days, it looks like Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks may create more opportunities for solution providers in the channel a lot sooner.
Alcatel-Lucent has expanded its LTE ecosystem with the addition of five vendors, including a partnership with Gemalto that [...]

PureDisk V6.5.1 offers de-duplication, simple policy management and bandwidth optimization features that should make it an easy choice for solution providers to sell into the data center.

American Hakko Products, Inc. is a manufacturing and distribution of soldering, desoldering and rework systems company that has seen considerable growth in recent years. The increase in users on the network has also called for an increase in available bandwidth. However, the company noticed that excess amounts of corporate bandwidth were being used by staff to browse websites that were unrelated to business needs and the threat of web borne viruses became a concern. To address this growing problem, they decided to install a web monitoring system to have greater control over users’ Internet activities. After successfully deploying other products from GFI Software, they installed GFI WebMonitor.

We tested a PacketShaper 900 on a small test network showing how it can discover, classify and prioritize application traffic. We address four different questions that IT managers have about understanding how bandwidth-consuming applications interact over their networks, and how individual applications can be controlled for particular use cases.