Legal Tip: Avoid Auto-Renewal of Managed Service Contracts With This Language
If you haven’t experienced it once in your career, you are lucky. Carriers and other service providers often include automatic renewal language in their contracts for managed network services (MNS) in general and managed SD-WAN services. After a three-year term, if you do not give notice of termination at least 30 (or 60) days before the end of […]
What is the average price for an SD-WAN service? Here’s some data that will help
How much should you expect to spend on for an SD-WAN service? It’s a question that I’m often asked and one that depends highly on your network configuration. Pricing involves capacity at locations, whether it’s fully managed or not, and the services being included. Here at the WAN Summit in New York, Greg Bryan, senior manager of […]
How to Negotiate Better Carrier Contracts for SD-WAN, MPLS, and Other Managed Network Services
Most people have limited experience in negotiating carrier contracts whether for traditional MPLS service or for SD-WAN services. I have seen the best contract lawyers and attorneys from big-name law firms totally botch their review of a carrier contract since they didn’t have the first-hand experience on what really matters. They’re fine with the basic terms and conditions, […]
SD-WAN News Bytes
Hello, SD-WAN watchers. Here’s our weekly news update on all that’s been happening in the world of SD-WAN over the past week. Below we look at: Spectrum SD-WAN: The World’s Longest Beta? Citrix Upgrades Security After Breach SD-WAN: The Road to Intent-based Policies Untangle Unveils Framework: Security Meets SD-WAN — Again CRN Profiles Cato Networks Customer It’s Time for […]
Undersea Cables: Here’s What They Look Like & Why They Matter to Your SD-WAN
Anyone with a global network depends directly or indirectly on undersea cable connectivity. These undersea cable systems traverse the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans making global connectivity possible. But what do these cables look like? In case you ever wondered: This is a typical undersea cable. The fiber optics are in the bundles toward the […]
Vulnerabilities Make Security Testing Essential for SD-WAN Deployments
For far too long, I’ve been encouraging my customers to pay careful attention to the security of their SD-WAN solutions. I’m not just speaking about providing security services as part of the SD-WAN. Yes, that’s critical, but even more important is ensuring your SD-WAN solution is hardened against attack. We discussed those concerns two years ago at great length, warning […]
SD-WAN Bonanza: Cato Networks Grows By…..353%?!!!!!
If you haven’t heard already, Cato Networks just announced an investment of $55 million as part of a broader press release around recapping their 2018 results. That’s a remarkable achievement for any company let alone an SD-WAN company in a market filled with several dozen SD-WAN providers. And there’s more. The company announced that bookings grew by 352% year-over-year and […]
SD-WAN Architects Should Learn From The CenturyLink-Caused 911 Outage
Emergency services aren’t supposed to fail, ever. That’s been the promise of 911 since its inception. And yet that’s exactly what happened last month when the CenturyLink outage impacted 15 data centers in the US taking down 911, cloud, and DSL services. It underscores the national importance of our Internet backbone and begs the question […]
Silver Peak, VMware, Cisco Leaders in Gartner’s Edge Magic Quadrant
Gartner last month released its first-ever Magic Quadrant for WAN edge infrastructure. The complicated named belied the focus of the “MQ” on SD-WAN. VMware, Cisco and Silver Peak were named to the “Leaders” category. Silver Peak, in the press release announcing its selection, pointed out how its EdgeConnect was designed to unify SD-WAN, firewall, segmentation, routing, WAN optimization, and application visibility […]
SD-WAN Expert and ONUG: Consider Connectivity Options
The calendar just turned toward November, election day and the holidays. News from the SD-WAN sector is not slowing, however. The latest is that the MEF reports that an SD-WAN spec is expected next year, CenturyLink is now offering a managed service based on Cisco Viptela and Comcast Business Customers can ask, “Alexa, how’s my SD-WAN doing?” I delivered […]
