Talari Networks recently worked with the Webtorials Analyst Division to create both a white paper and a webcast to explore the benefits of Adaptive Private Networking (APN).

"The Compelling ROI of Adaptive Private Networking" by Jim Metzler, Webtorials Editorial/Analyst Division, provides an overview of a networking infrastructure that can indeed provide a "better, cheaper, faster" networking architecture that's quite scalable.  The paper explains, "Adaptive Private Networking (APN) is an emerging way to create virtual WANs. When compared to traditional WAN services such as Frame Relay and MPLS, APNs provide both higher levels of reliability , dramatic cost savings, and significantly more bandwidth.  An APN is based on packet-by-packet, real-time traffic engineering that leverages the reliability and bandwidth of multiple active paths through the Internet. The reliability improvement that APN delivers by leveraging multiple active paths allows an APN to exploit the superior price/performance of consumer-oriented ISP services."