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…
SDxCentral: Sprint Launches VeloCloud SD-WAN Services
SDxCentral are reporting that Sprint have launched their VeloCloud based SD-WAN service. This follows an October 2016 announcement that they will roll-out services early this year. Sprint's press release Sprint…
CA Performance Management supports SD-WAN built using Cisco IWAN and Viptela
CA have released a new version of their CA Performance Management tool which supports both Cisco IWAN and Viptela SD-WAN environments. “We can support both technologies in a multivendor agnostic…
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…
Aryaka State of the WAN Report 2017
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…
SDxCentral: Cradlepoint launches new LTE-based SD-WAN capabilities
SDxCentral reports Cradlepoint have launched new LTE capabilities for LTE connected SD-WAN. Cradlepoint have published their NetCloud OS Release 6.3, the software part of their NetCloud platform. Cradlepoint focus on using LTE as primary or…
PacketPushers: Brocade Launches Entry-Level Fibre Channel Switch
Despite Broadcom's pending acquisition of Brocade , development of new products is still occurring. PacketPushers caught a press-release that Brocade have a new entry level fibre channel switch. The G610…
ArsTechnica: Optane to become the new RAM?
ArsTechnica reports that Intel has released a new SSD that supports their Optane technology (previously known as X-Point technology), which can be also used as RAM. We'll have to see…