Kentik’s Avi Freedman on Bringing Network Monitoring Into the Digital, Virtual Age

In this interview, Avi Freedman, Kentik’s co-founder and CEO, discusses why Kentik’s approach is unique in the market, and gives his vision of where it goes next.

AT&T’s Rupesh Chokshi on NFV/SDN-enabled Business Networking

AT&T has been aggressively transforming its core network with software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), gaining the ability to offer on-site infrastructure to enterprises in an innovative, simplified, and easy to consume model. The resulting platform, AT&T FlexWareSM, provides best-in-class, virtualized network functions to businesses across the entire spectrum of the market. From... Read more →

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — January 11, 2018

Huawei persists despite failures in U.S.; T-Mobile launches NB-IoT plan; Verizon acquires threat hunter.

Today’s Mobile Networks Demand Virtual Functionality & Data Analytics

Telecom operators need new network monitoring tools.  Although mobile core networks are increasingly virtualized—through powerful and flexible technologies such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) —network monitoring and analytics functions have only recently started to be virtualized. Stand-alone virtual probes still require mirroring of all the traffic which in turn impacts performance... Read more →

GHD Uses Riverbed SteelConnect to Link 100 Global Offices

Global professional services company GHD recently merged with Conestoga-Rovers and Associates (CRA), adding more than 3,000 employees in 100 offices, including 50 small sites. With this sudden growth, GHD needed a simple, cost-effective solution to add those new sites onto the company’s network. The answer was Riverbed SteelConnect, which has fueled stronger collaboration between its... Read more →

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — January 5, 2018

The FCC's Ajit Pai cancels visit to CES; Elliot completes Gigamon purchase; InfoVista and Ericsson sign interoperability initiative.

2018 SD-WAN as a Managed Service Report Available Now!

Download now to learn the latest on the SD-WAN as a managed service.

SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — December 2017

Cisco merges Viptela tech with its routers; Silver Peak, Aryaka top SD-WAN revenue rankings; and AT&T explains white box plans.

SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

U.S. Air Force soars to the cloud for $1B; Dell EMC bests Nutanix; Machine learning for networks.

From Microsegmentation to DevOps Nirvana: Here Are the Top Analysis Posts of 2017

Our analysis posts provide a deeper dive on what certain trends mean to the industry. In 2017 these articles coveraged a wide swath of topics from the best tools for deploying containers to how network virtualization will help companies track compliance issues. 

Top Webinars of 2017: From Streamlining the Data Center to Analyzing Network Traffic

In 2017 many organizations and companies offered up their time and experience to teach us all something new. A number of topics were covered, from deciphering network traffic to simplifying the data center.  

From SD-WAN to the Network Edge: Here Are the Top Sponsored Posts of 2017

Here is a list of our Top 5 sponsored posts of 2017

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — December 22, 2017

Qualcomm rejects Broadcom board nominees; Ericsson, Vodafone complete pre-standard 5G test; CENX signs Open API Manifesto.

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — December 15, 2017

AWS opens its 17th global region; ZTE launches IoT Platform; Verizon opens 5G-enabled lab.

Take a Deep Dive Into the SD-WAN Market

Find out why Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN was named a leading player to watch and how its solution is reshaping the modern enterprise network with improved performance reduced costs and enhanced security, with the flexibility of a hardware or virtual appliance, on-premises or in the cloud.

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — December 8, 2017

ETSI launches AR group; Canonical and Rancher Labs build joint platform; VeloCloud extends to AWS.

SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — November 2017

AT&T wants white box routers; VMware swoops on VeloCloud; Cisco Ericsson partnership wavers.

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Hyperledger reaches 183 members; Azure adds location services; and AWS debuts new VR, IoT, and more at re:Invent.

Dell EMC Q&A: Open Networking 2.0 – Disaggregating the Software Stack

Thanks to all who joined us for the Dell EMC Webinar: Open Networking 2.0 – Disaggregating the Software Stack. During the webinar Dell EMC discussed the architectural elements of the modern networking software stack and the role of open source technologies in it. After the webinar, we took questions from the audience. Read the full... Read more →

Edge Computing: 5 Viable Telco Business Models

Download the HPE MEC Research Report, . Telecommunications (telco) providers are excited about Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) because it promises to make compute and storage capabilities available to customers at the edge of communications networks. Workloads and applications will be closer to customers, potentially enhancing experiences and enabling new services and offers. MEC is being... Read more →