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May 2, 2017

Viptela plans for acquisition by Cisco

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag acquisition, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Systems, Cloud, finance, IWAN, market, record, Riverbed Technology, SD-WAN, space, transition, Verizon Communications, Viptela, WAN, Xirrus Inc

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…

SDxCentral: Cradlepoint launches new LTE-based SD-WAN capabilities

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag bandwidth, cradlepoint, Ethernet, LTE, performance, QOS, router, SD-WAN, sdxcentral, WAN, Wi-Fi

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…

Riverbed to acquire Xirrus targets SD-Branch?

By John Dixon in Featured Tag acquisition, analytics, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Systems, digital marketing, finance, location analytics, range, Riverbed Technology, routing, sd-branch, SD-WAN, security, space, technology, WAN, Wi-Fi, Xirrus Inc

Riverbed will acquire WiFi vendor Xirrus, expanding their SD-WAN and WiFi offerings. Both private companies will conclude the deal later this year. This acquisition will broaden Riverbed's SD-WAN portfolio, providing…

SDxCentral: GTT launches managed SD-WAN service via Velocloud

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag gtt, hybrid, market, SD-WAN, sdxcentral, VeloCloud Networks, WAN

GTT has launched a managed SD-WAN solution, using Velocloud according to SDxCentral. GTT Communications protect their managed services market against the cost erosion from hybrid networks. The managed SD-WAN solution over the top…

SDxCentral: Hybrid SD-WAN deployment models rise

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag Cloud, deployment, hybrid, idc, Internet, research, SD-WAN, sdxcentral, WAN

SDxCentral are reporting in their article Hybrid SD-WAN Deployment Models Rise that there are increasing moves to deploy SD-WAN based on information from the WAN Summit conference. The information in…

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.…

SDxCentral: Fujitsu Targets SD-WAN at Smaller-Sized Businesses

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag ARM, fujitsu, SD-WAN, sdxcentral, WAN

SDxCentral reports that Fujistu Networks are using an ARM-based white box solution to deliver their SD-WAN to smaller businesses.

The Register: Nokia boosts Fiber to 250Gb/s for Facebook

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag bandwidth, Europe, Facebook, Fiber, finland, Nokia, technology, theregister, WAN

The Register are reporting that Nokia have completed a test across the Atlantic for Facebook, delivering 250Gb/s on a single fiber. On Nokia's website, the following press-release detailing the test…