How Do You Choose Which WAN Vendors To Talk To?
If you’re thinking of updating your WAN I have good news and bad news. The good news is that there is a wide range of new functionality being introduced into the market that can form the basis for a...
View ArticleHow Do I Build A Framework To Justify Upgrading The WAN?
As described in previous blogs, there is a large and growing set of technologies that can be used to implement a next generation of enterprise WAN. However, no enterprise implements technology just for...
View ArticleCRN Awards 5-Star Rating for WAN Technology Leadership
As the demands for the wide area network evolve and the movement toward building software-defined WANs (SD-WAN) accelerates, Silver Peak has been focused on addressing the dynamic and varied needs for...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Simplify Security
The annual RSA security show was recently held in San Francisco. RSA is always a great show and it’s a chance to go see the latest and greatest in the ever-changing, fast-moving world that is security....
View ArticleHow Do I Build A Business Case for a WAN Upgrade?
In a previous blog I described a framework that can be used to build a business case to justify a WAN upgrade. A framework is important but having a framework still leaves open a critical question: How...
View ArticleThe Rise of cPaaS Portends More WAN Problems
When it comes to the cloud, there is certainly no shortage of different types. Usually when people think of “the cloud” they either think of CRM type applications, like Salesforce.com, or common...
View ArticleCaching remains SD-WAN’s “Ugly Stepchild”
The topic of the Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is certainly a hot one today. Almost every engineer I talk to is, at least, in the investigating phase of the evolution to an SD-WAN. While the term...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Stop The ‘WANSanity’
One of the quotes that Albert Einstein is credited with is: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If that is indeed how insanity is...
View ArticleIs Hybrid WAN an Unnecessary Step to a Broadband WAN?
A few weeks ago I presented on the state of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) at this years Open Networking User Group (ONUG) conference. During the section on SD-WAN I made a comment that I thought that...
View ArticleMaintaining VLAN Business Intent Across the WAN
VLANs (Virtual LANs) are a staple of enterprise networking — administrators partition LAN traffic into separate subnetworks. Using VLANs, you keep real-time traffic separate from bulk data traffic,...
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