Category: SD-WAN

Did you ever order something online from a distant retailer and then track the package as it makes strange and seemingly illogical stops all over the country? That’s similar to the way IP routing on the Internet works. When an internet router receives an IP packet, that packet carries no information beyond a destination IP… Continue reading What Is Mpls, And Why Isn’T It Dead Yet? | Network World

Cisco has tweaked its flagship SD-WAN software package to increase customer application flexibility and improve visibility into the performance of distributed resources. The company announced Cisco SD-WAN release 17.8, which adds support for new business and customized cloud applications, analytics and security features. Specifically, the company upgraded the SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for SaaS service, which… Continue reading Cisco Sd-Wan Software Gains Broader Application Access, Enhanced Analytics | Network World

Secure access service edge, or SASE, combines networking and security into a cloud-based service, and it’s growing fast. According to Gartner projections, enterprise spending on SASE will hit almost $7 billion this year, up from under $5 billion in 2021. Gartner also predicts that more than 50% of organizations will have strategies to adopt SASE… Continue reading How Sase Uses Ai | Network World

Why is it that over 90% of enterprises tell me that they expect to spend more on security over the next three years, and almost 60% say they expect to spend less on networking? We obviously think that network technology is getting more efficient, more competitive. Why isn’t that the case for security? The short… Continue reading Basing Network Security On Ip Addressing: Would It Be Worth It? | Network World

What do router networks and a preschool have in common? A lot more than you think. Read on for the answer. To the average enterprise, “network” means “router network”. It’s not that there aren’t other things in the network, but that the whole of enterprise networking is about building IP connectivity. We’ve invented a bunch… Continue reading Mpls, Sdn, Even Sd-Wan Can Give You The Network Observability You Need | Network World

Cisco is set to offer the first fruits of its technology that promises to let enterprises proactively avoid network problems and increase application performance. At its Cisco Live event this week the company took the wraps off ThousandEyes WAN Insights service that will let Cisco SD-WAN customers get network forecasts and SD-WAN policy recommendations for… Continue reading Cisco Service Predicts Sd-Wan Problems | Network World

Secure access service edge (SASE) has generated a buzz over the last couple of years, particularly in light of the pandemic and its associated surge in remote employees. But SASE hasn’t quite materialized in the way Gartner – which first coined the term in a 2019 white paper – initially expected. In particular, there’s been… Continue reading Sase Or Sse? Don’t Let Hype Distract From Enterprise Needs | Network World

A new managed WAN service from AWS promises to make it faster and easier for enterprises to build, manage, and monitor a global network that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises environments. AWS Cloud WAN, which the company previewed in December, lets customers link cloud resources in on-premises data centers, branch offices or colocation sites and… Continue reading Aws Wan Service Aims To Simplify Global Network Deployments | Network World

Your network vendor has probably already told you that network as a service, or NaaS, would improve your network and bottom line. They’ve probably told you that they offer a NaaS strategy. The first statement is true, and the second is fast becoming irrelevant, because the fact is that you have a better, vendor-independent NaaS… Continue reading Redefining Naas: It’s The Internet | Network World

People want to connect to all of their apps all of the time from all of their devices no matter where they are. And they pretty much can, thanks to wide-area networks (WANs). At its core, a WAN is a network of networks. The Internet itself is a giant WAN, and how you connect to… Continue reading What Is A Wan? Wide-Area Network Definition And Examples | Network World