NETWORK WORLD ARTICLE: ANN BEDNARZ ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION ALERT 03/25/08 Making an airline's applications fly By Ann Bednarz How can you tell if a technology you've piloted is worth purchasing? One good indicator is when end users complain when the trial period ends. That's what happened when Canadian airline WestJet deployed bandwidth management technology in its Calgary, Alberta, data center.Read full story Ann Bednarz is an associate news editor at Network World responsible for editing daily news content. She previously covered enterprise applications, e-commerce and telework trends for Network World. E-mail Ann . This article is sponsored by Strangeloop Networks Learn how to Fix Web 2.0 App Issues Learn how to select application acceleration tools that address server side delay, which is a common problem with Web 2.0 applications. 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But you probably also have been polishing just one side of your IT coin by applying these processes to a single aspect of performance: just to assets or just to information flows. It's time to look at the big performance management picture. Survey finds gaps in U.S. broadband Eighty-nine percent of respondents to a recent survey think lack of broadband access in the United States hurts an individual's educational, productivity and employment potential. Feds to award flood of telecom deals Last week, AT&T won a 10-year, $20 million deal to provide voice services to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an agency with stringent security requirements and 47,000 employees nationwide. Carrier moves on open access, P2P indicative of shift in attitudes When telecom historians look back on the events of 2007, they may well see them as the carriers' last stand against opening up their networks. Cruise lines try one- and two-ended WAN acceleration Two luxury cruise lines faced the same satellite-delay challenges for shipboard Internet access and came up with different ways to address the unavoidable latency on those ship-to-shore connections and keep passengers happy. What was Microsoft thinking? Cisco Subnet blogger Larry Chaffin writes: what is Microsoft going to do when they figure out that the solution they are going to push to Server 2008 customers using the WAAS is not that good. Cisco Subnet's Top 20 Cisco Press books: How do you rate them? Since we launched Cisco Subnet at the beginning of last year, we've been regularly posting exclusive chapters from new and classic Cisco Press books on our site (see our library here ). We've compiled the top 20 most-read Cisco Press book chapters as accessed by our readers over the year. What did you think of the book/chapter? Was it helpful in your job/career? Give your ratings for the top 20 books/chapters here . NEW BLOG: App Performance View Industry analysts Peter Sevcik and Rebecca Wetzel turn their keen eye on the challenges of application performance management. LIVE CHAT: Cisco Networking Simplified with Neil Anderson Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 25 from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EST. Neil Anderson is co-author of the best selling book series, Cisco Networking Simplified. When not writing books, he is the Director of Enterprise Systems Engineering with Cisco Systems. He has more than 20 years of broad experience in communications systems, including public telephone, mobile phone, and IP networks. Neil will be available to answer your questions about network design, wireless networking, VoIP, and video-over-IP systems. Attend this chat and have a chance to win one of 10 free copies of Cisco Networking Simplified (published January, 2008). Must be present to win. MARCH GIVEAWAYS: This month's giveaways from Microsoft Subnet and Cisco Subnet Microsoft Subnetis giving away a free training course worth up to $2,500 courtesy of New Horizons; your choice of cool gadgets courtesy of Global Knowledge; and 15 copies of the book Guide to Office 2007 Servers".Cisco Subnetis giving away to one lucky reader free access to Cisco training partner Tech 2000's CCNA Lab Simulator. Cisco Subnet also has 15 copies of the Cisco Press book "Cisco Networking Simplified, 2nd Edition" up for grabs. Go here for the entry instructions for all the competitions. TOP STORIES | MOST DUGG STORIES 1. Test: 10 Gig access switches 2. IRS' data warehouse to blame for audit 3. Microsoft warns of new Word attack 4. Vista SP1: Threat or menace? 5. IBM's top 5 predictions for UC 6. Hyper-V leaves Linux out in the cold 7. Intel stretches Wi-Fi to cover 60 miles 8. First look at Firefox beta 9. Feds to award flood of telecom deals 10. Outsourcing security is controversial 11. 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