We’ve all heard the tales of how software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) can dramatically change the ways taht enterprises connect their branch offices and save companies thousands of dollars. But who better to tell those stories than the IT executives at those enterprises that are working with the technology every day? We’d love to be able... Read more →
MPLS couldn’t keep up with company’s growing bandwidth demands.
Third-quarter research shows networking giant maintains dominance in growing market.
C-RAN trials are happening today with three operators.
Gartner predicts that 85 percent of enterprises will use a CASB by 2020.
The company claims visibility across the entire application stack.
The approach enables IT teams to focus on SD-WAN, orchestration, and automation.
New SDxCentral research finds three licenses most common for open source networking projects.
There is a lot of talk about the “end of ‘net neutrality” because of the recent announcements made by the United State Federal Communications Commission (FCC). With so much out there, it is often important to sit down and read a few pieces together to gain a better sense of different sides of the issue, rather than reading one or two articles and considering yourself “well informed.” This post provides a starting point for those interested in pursuing the issue a little more deeply.
The latest episodes in this unfortunate techno-religious proclivity are now emerging. One involves an especially egregious hyperbolic excess of the Internet Wars known as Net Neutrality. The winning internet protocol religious faction, having infused the Washington political system with their Templar Knights in 2009, baked their commandments into the embarrassing December 2010 Report & Order of the FCC as “preserving the free and open internet.” “Today the Commission takes an important step to preserve the Internet as an open platform for innovation, investment, job creation, economic growth, competition, and free expression.” Nevermind that they never actually defined “the Internet.” They simply believed that whatever it was, the FCC as a federal government Continue reading
SD-WAN addresses performance and security concerns in a more manageable way.