Internet Core Stability Solved – Mode Introduces SD-Core Backbone for SD-WAN
Anyone who wants to minimize the latency of their Internet-based SD-WAN connection should avoid the Internet core. But how do you do that? A global, independent backbone offers an excellent alternative. Until recently, Aryaka and Cato Networks were the only providers of a global, independent backbone. A new player, Mode, just emerged from stealth with significant pedigree and introducing its own […]
Webinar – The State of SD-WAN with Steve Garson – June 14
SD-WAN is the next revolution in technology after the cloud, making the internet a manageable part of the WAN infrastructure. According to Gartner, SD-WAN is defined as having four characteristics, but most companies have only considered implementing SD-WAN for cost reduction, until now. In this webinar, hosted by Secure SD-WAN provider Open Systems, hear from SD-WAN expert, […]
Three Ways of Integrating SD-WAN Security
Under a strategic partnership announced on April 11, SecureOps’ security services will be added to Expereo managed services offerings, which include SD-WAN. The offering includes security infrastructure management, threat monitoring and response and vulnerability life-cycle management. The Expereo and SecureOps strategic partnership for security and network service management is enhanced by vulnerability lifecycle management services. Enterprises will […]
Baseball and Carrier SD-WAN: Knowing how to count those strikes
I know what you’re thinking. If you want an SD-WAN that’s easy to design, deliver, and deploy go to the people more experienced than anyone at delivering managed services, the carriers. There’s a certain logic there, I grant you. But my experience in working with carriers for more than a decade deploying MPLS says that SD-WAN services are vastly […]
SD-WAN Service: Keep Your Eye On The Carrier Bottom Line
All too often in an SD-WAN evaluation, a client at some point will ask about purchasing an SD-WAN service from one of the carriers. Now, I’ve got nothing against carrier-managed services. After all, MPLS has been the mainstay of enterprises for years, and before starting SASE Experts I ran MPLS-Experts. But at the same time, for years I’ve heard […]
Open Systems Delivers Innovative Secure SD-WAN
When people read about networking, they often hear about the big players in the market. The Ciscos and Junipers of the world. The same is true with SD-WAN, though Maybe a slightly smaller scale. Yet all too often in the networking market, the most innovative vendors aren’t necessarily the biggest. The same is true for Secure […]
SASE Experts at WAN Summit – New York
I enjoy exchanging insights and lessons learned with other IT professionals at WAN specific gatherings. On April 16-17, we’ll have a great opportunity to do just that when I host a discussion session at the upcoming WAN Summit in New York. The cost is only $75 to attend, for non-vendor enterprises. You can’t beat the price, especially […]
China Stops SD-WANs Cold…Until You Register
As we noted in our Network World post, a new policy from the Chinese government going into effect for Shanghai Telecom customers on January 10, 2018 will block all HTTP and HTTP/S traffic. This means your SD-WAN or VPN will likely be disrupted unless you register with your commercial ISP in China. Each PTT in the country will […]
MPLS vs. SD-WAN: A WAN Speed Test
If an SD-WAN and an MPLS connection have the same bandwidth, which offers better performance? The prevailing wisdom is the MPLS connection since it’s managed, but that’s not necessarily the case, as we learned from one customer. Internet performance has improved so much in the past two decades that its performance can rival and even exceed that of private WAN […]
Does FatPipe Patents Cover SD-WAN Load Balancing?
VMware’s acquisition of VeloCloud may be overshadowed by a little press release issued last week. The release came from FatPipe who laid claim to load balancing over disparate networks, a technology used by pretty much every SD-WAN player. On November 1, FatPipe® Networks, holder of multiple patents for software-defined networks for wide area connectivity and hybrid WANs, announced that the United […]
