What VMware’s VeloCloud Acquisition Means for SD-WAN Services
The recent news around VMware’s acquisition of SD-WAN provider VeloCloud raises questions about the carrier commitment to SD-WAN and the value of managed SD-WAN services. VeloCloud: SD-WAN for Carriers VeloCloud’s service provider focus was particularly significant for VMware. The deal “…signals a strong commitment to build deeper partnerships with communication service providers (CSPs),” writes Gabriele Di Piazza, the vice president of products and solutions […]
SD-WAN Security: How Gartner Got it Wrong
A new Gartner report accurately identifies the major macro shift in the SD-WAN market — the transition from pure networking architectures to one intimately tied into broader SD-WAN security designs. It’s a shift we’ve been speaking about for some time. But while Gartner got the basic market change correct, it’s in the details that the report was mistaken. […]
The Ultimate List of Office 365 Network Deployment Tools and Resources
There are many networking tools and resources available for deploying Office 365. Here are 18 utilities and web sites that have been helpful for us at SD-WAN Experts. Think I’ve missed one? I’d love to hear it. Email me using our contact form. 1. AD Explorer Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor […]
CFATS – Can SD-WANs Be Standards Compliant?
Any innovative technology faces a battle of doubt. When Amazon first rolled out AWS, few could imagine servers running in the cloud. Before Salesforce, many thought CRM to be too critical to run as SaaS. I find SD-WANs to be facing a similar battle. It’s inconceivable to many that an SD-WAN could replace MPLS. This is particularly true […]
5 Steps to Testing SD-WANs
Companies looking to find the perfect SD-WAN solutions inevitably ask questions about testing. Since choosing an SD-WAN solution for your company is a big decision, it’s important to choose the vendor whose strengths and nuances best fit your company’s network environment. But testing SD-WAN solutions isn’t simple. There are many vendors to choose from with a range […]
How SD-WANs Can Help Prevent User Misconfigurations
A few years ago, when I ran SD-WAN Experts’ predecessor MPLS Experts, a customer approached me to help solve an MPLS issue. This customer had noticed packets with unknown IPs on its carrier-managed private network. As it turned out, one of the carrier techs had misconfigured the VRF/VFI identifiers, connecting a third party – one of the carrier’s other […]
SASE Experts to Moderate Panel at WAN Summit – San Jose
It’s always interesting exchanging insights and lessons learned with other IT professionals. In June, we’ll have a great opportunity to do just that when I host a discussion session at the upcoming WAN Summit in San Jose (June 14-15). A similar session was held in New York this past April 3-4. The panel discussion entitled “The […]
LTE for SD-WAN or Failover
LTE is a rapidly growing technology, with bandwidth speeds that are rising every year. Your results will depend on signal strength, but LTE modems are designed with POE to allow you to locate them wherever you need to, to obtain the best signal strength. External antennas are also easily installed in locations that require them […]
SD-WAN POC for Retail Network – Mind The Gap
When it comes to POCs, one of the more interesting presentations at the WAN Summit was given by Snehal Patel, network architect, at the Gap. The Gap, if you don’t know, has been sort of the poster child for Viptela’s SD-WAN. And while the needs of the Gap may not necessarily align with every small- to medium-sized […]
WAN Summit: Random Thoughts and Insights
This past Monday was the opening day for the WAN Summit where 300 or so folk gathered to plumb the future of the WAN. Yours truly was there and hosted a great session (If I say so myself) about Experiences with Adopting SD-WAN and Integrating the Internet into the WAN. We’ll touch that later, but first some insights from […]
