What are the business benefits of SD-WAN deployment? SD-WAN stands for a Software-Defined Wide Area Network. It simplifies network management. It reduces the cost of the network infrastructure. It provides…
Whatever happened to Blackberry?
A few years ago, you couldn't move in London on the Tube for businessmen checking and answering email on their Blackberry device. Now they have disappeared, being replaced by Apple…
Comcast embarks on Enterprise SD-WAN journey
Comcast is embarking on an SD-WAN journey using Versa Networks to provide for their enterprise customers. They announced their SD-WAN beta for mid-market and enterprise customers at Interop ITX. "Our…
TechCrunch: Appformix adds support for VMware following Juniper acquisition
TechCrunch reports that After acquisition by Juniper, Cloud optimization service Appformix adds support for VMware. Juniper purchased Appformix in December last year. Appformix uses telemetery from OpenStack or Kubernetes managed…
Aquantia deliver workstation mGig (Multi-Gigabit Ethernet)
As part of the roll-out of mGig (IEEE 802.11bz), Aquantia have launched network interface cards for the workstation market. These offer 2.5Gb/s and 5Gb/s connections using existing cables. (See Multi-Gigabit…
CenturyLink focuses on Enterprise with Level3
CenturyLink is adapting their Enterprise level offerings in preparation to bring Level3 into the fold. This follows their announcement last week of the management team for new combined CenturyLink organisation.…
Viptela plans for acquisition by Cisco
Viptela's Blog contains the following Thank you Viptela Customers, Partners and Employees post. This is CEO Praveen Akkiraju's post to announce that Viptela has signed a definitive agreement to sell…
Equinix buys Verizon data centers
Equinix has completed a transaction to buy 29 Verizon data centers announced in December 2016. The $3.6bn transaction brings the datacenters, 250 staff and 1000 customers to Equinix's portfolio. These…