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Information Technology News Microsoft enters WAN optimisation market with Packeteer
Information Technology News Microsoft enters WAN optimisation market with Packeteer | Microsoft enters WAN optimisation market with Packeteer |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 08 May 2007 | |
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In the US, prices will start at $US11,000 for an appliance up to 45Mbps throughput with 10Mbps of accelerated traffic. Australian pricing will be a the appropriate exchange rate, with no mark up. The product will be sold through Packeteer, not Microsoft. Packeteer, founded in 1996, is one of a number of companies that have emerged over the past decade with technology designed to optimise the performance of wide area networks and of applications running over wide area networks. Several of its contemporaries have been bought by major network equipment vendors and others who saw the need to offer this functionality with their own products. In 2005 Juniper bought Peribit and Redline, and Cisco bought Fineground, Actona Technologies and Neopath. In 2006 Citrix Systems bought Orbit Data.{moscomment} |
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