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Title: Speeding up the net - is it possible?It takes a little control - Bob Tarzey, Post by: Stephen Taylor on July 28, 2007, 03:52:30 AM Speeding up the net - is it possible?It takes a little control - Bob Tarzey, the Register
The best way to get reliable performance out of a wide area network (WAN) is to install your own high-speed gigabit fibre optic cables between all the locations in your organisation. This could provide seemingly unlimited bandwidth for your employees to use the applications they like and not have to think twice about the volume of content they send around the network. In reality, of course, for all but the largest organisations this is not affordable - and even for them it is impractical to link every remote outpost to a private physical network. Even the NHS, which has given BT a few billion pounds to build such a network, is relying on public network connections to link in most surgeries, clinics, and external organisations to its shiny new private backbone. Read More.. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/20/increasing_network_speed/) |