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Aug 09, 2010

Certeon’s Strategic Decision to go Virtual Two Years Ago

Tags: Certeon, Riverbed, Virtualized WAN Optimization, WAN Optimization Appliance

On July 22, 2010, Riverbed announced that it will introduce a virtual WAN optimization appliance in the third quarter of 2010. It seems that Riverbed has finally come around to the idea that software-based WAN optimization makes sense.

While Certeon started off in 2005 as a hardware-based WAN optimization company, Certeon made a strategic decision in 2008 to go “virtual” with its solutions. For the past two years Certeon has dedicated R&D resources to refine its aCelera software appliances. Now in its third generation, Certeon’s aCelera virtual appliances have been deployed successfully in production networks around the world, reducing application response time and lowering network bandwidth requirements by up to 95 percent.

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Nov 18, 2009

Virtualizing Voice

Tags: Certeon, TCO, virtual software appliance, Virtualization Journal, voice applications

We read with great interest this article in Virtualization Journal which asks the question why aren’t we using virtualization for unified communications, specifically for voice applications? This is really a great question. After all, as Certeon points out in the article, if we were to move from the current voice delivery hardware-based solutions to a virtual software appliance voice delivery model, some of the savings could include:

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