Last time, we began our discussion of what can be done to address the impact of packet loss on application performance over the WAN. We listed six different possibilities, and went through how one of ...

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. Many vendors are racing to compete in the burgeoning software-defined WAN space. Each competitor has ...

Some network vendors have been positioning SD WAN vs. MPLS as the ultimate solution to any network issue. They’re selling SD WAN, or software-defined wide area network, as a revolutionary box that ...

BT is offering its enterprise customers software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) managed services, using Cisco routers that are already in place as MPLS network termination boxes. According to ...

The noise in the Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN) marketplace has reached pandemonium levels, as a wide range of vendors seek to disrupt the hegemony of Cisco Systems in the networking ...

Enterprises have been building their wide area networks in the same way for the past 20 years. Private branch networks built largely around MPLS have been the norm, but this strategy is being ...

Not everyone is fully aware that software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions can be designed differently. Enterprises considering SD-WAN should understand how the design impacts total costs, network ...

In the 90's as we pondered the future of data networks, we came to the realisation that as most applications were based on IP, it made sense to offer IP-routed data connectivity for Wide Area ...