Lights-out WAN management is built upon an integrated system that provides three key management functions: find, configure and monitor. Relative to find, what is needed as a minimum is the ability to ...

Dual-WAN didn’t boost speed — ...

Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) are quickly gaining popularity, in no small part because vendors are applying them to a bunch of diverse missions -- so diverse, in fact, that users often complain they ...

URSP and SD-WAN unlock scalable 5G network slicing.

SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) has emerged as a revolutionary technology in the ever-evolving enterprise networking landscape. By enhancing network agility and optimizing performance, ...

As data volumes continue to swell, organisations are continuously faced with the challenge of optimising their underlying network infrastructure in order to support the increasing flow of traffic.

We recently received a copy of a Netex-commissioned white paper called “The Death of the WAN Optimization Hardware Appliance: R.I.P.” The paper, by a firm curiously named Dragon Slayer Consulting, ...

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...