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May 11, 2017

Aryaka State of the WAN Report 2017

By John Dixon in Featured Tag Americas, analytics, API, Aryaka, Asia, bandwidth, capacity, change, China, Cloud, development, Ethernet, finance, HTTP, india, Internet, iot, latency, Microsoft, monitoring, MPLS, office 365, performance, routing, SD-WAN, security, shared, sharing, sla, storage, tools, video, WAN, What Is?

Aryaka released their State of the WAN report for 2017 today. This is a report that uses data gathered from over 5000 locations in 63 countries, and reports on the…

Silver Peak updates SD-WAN with Packet-iQ to make choices from the first packet

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag BGP, change, Cloud, complexity, deployment, DNS, Ethernet, firewall, HTTP, Internet, ipsec, lightreading, local internet breakout, MPLS, office 365, packets, proxy, range, router, routing, SD-WAN, sdxcentral, servers, Silver Peak Systems, TCP, VPN, WAN, Zscaler

A press release from Silver Peak announces recent innovations for their SD-WAN product set. Enhancements to their EdgeConnect environment are Packet-iQ, a stateful firewall, firewall service chaining and Zscaler support.…

February 6, 2017

SD-WAN – or should we say WAN4.0?

By John Dixon in Featured Tag bandwidth, capacity, change, history, Internet, IPv4, IPv6, local internet breakout, LTE, monitoring, MPLS, pop, research, resilience, routing, SD-WAN, security, shared, sharing, standard, switch, technology, video, virtualisation, voip, VPN, WAN, What Is?

Is the current buzzword "SD-WAN" really new, or is it actually a progression of the WAN technologies we all know and love? Is it going to be a revolution or…

January 11, 2017

What are the choices for SD-WAN currently?

By John Dixon in Featured Tag bandwidth, change, Cloud, deployment, devops, gartner, hybrid, Internet, market, MPLS, orchestration, reflections, routing, SD-WAN, security, sla, space, technology, testing, tools, VPN, WAN, What Is?, Wi-Fi

There is a lot of hype over SD-WAN at the moment, with movements by telcos and OEM suppliers investing in some of the new startups. And folks that have been…

SDxCentral: Centurylink offers SD-WAN with Versa Networks Technology

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag bandwidth, CenturyLink, MPLS, SD-WAN, sdxcentral, technology, versa, WAN

SDxCentral reports that CenturyLink is offering an SD-WAN managed service to their customers. Deployed using the Versa Networks platform, this will offer their customers a managed service that reduces the…

October 3, 2015

Three Bottlenecks of WAN – Bandwidth, Latency and Cost

By John Dixon in Featured Tag bandwidth, Cable, capacity, costsaving, Europe, extreme, Internet, latency, london, market, MPLS, NFV, packets, performance, QOS, resilience, Riverbed Technology, satellite, SD-WAN, servers, space, TCP, technology, UK, video, WAN, What Is?

There are three bottlenecks to Wide Area Networks (WANs) that don't exist in other environments, and these are Bandwidth, Latency and Cost. (And in true three pronged problem fashion, you…

May 12, 2008

The value in taking both paths at once

By John Dixon in Featured Tag backup, bandwidth, change, Cisco Systems, fail, hybrid, Infovista, Internet, ios, Ipanema Technology, Juniper, market, monitoring, MPLS, performance, policy, reflections, router, routing, security, technology, VPN

Over time the use of multiple paths within the modern corporate network has increased. Using both paths of an active/backup pair adds bandwidth. We've gone through a whole series of…

May 5, 2008

What is hybrid networking?

By John Dixon in Featured Tag backup, complexity, costsaving, Ethernet, firewall, hybrid, Internet, ipsec, MPLS, packets, routing, security, switch, upgrade, WAN, What Is?

You'll start to hear the term Hybrid Networking bandied around shortly. Whilst hybrid can mean many things, in this case we are talking about Hybrid Network Unification. In this article,…