In the form of the iconic David Letterman Top Ten List segment from his former Late Show, Silver Peak is counting down the Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Router. Click here for the #10 reason to retire traditional routers at the branch. The […]
SD-WAN
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The adoption and deployment of software defined WANs (SD-WANs) continues to skyrocket. ZK Research predicts the technology will grow at almost 70 percent CAGR between now and 2022. For most businesses, the WAN is long overdue for an upgrade as conventional router-centric WAN architectures have […]
As enterprises continue to rapidly migrate applications and infrastructure to the cloud, SD-WAN technologies are quickly gaining traction. Industry analyst firm IDC estimates that 80 percent of business is transacted from branch and remote offices, which is driving enterprises to deploy SD-WAN solutions to provide […]
Digital Transformation touches the network Applications are moving to the cloud – a lot of them. IDC estimates that by 2020[1], 90% of enterprises will use multi-cloud, i.e. multiple public and private cloud services and platforms, to support their ever-expanding application requirements. Service providers have […]
Unified communications (UC) has been a market in the making for nearly two decades now. While no offence to the vendor community is intended, it’s fair to say that the adoption of UC has never lived up to the hype around its potential. This has […]
Borrowing from the iconic David Letterman Top Ten List segment from his former Late Show, this new blog series will countdown the Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Router. The #10 reason it’s time to retire traditional routers at the branch: It’s getting cloudy! […]
When SD-WANs first began to be discussed, the focus of the discussion was on the potential cost savings that would result from incorporating more cost-effective broadband connectivity into the WAN. Reducing cost is clearly an important goal, but achieving that goal is only meaningful if […]
It’s not hard to explain the high interest in software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) technology. Enterprises are looking for an efficient, flexible way to boost bandwidth while at the same time reducing costs, and SD-WAN technology increasingly fits that bill. One enterprise that has proven this […]
I’ve been spending some time the past few weeks researching the potential role of SD-WAN in enabling service providers to augment existing managed private cloud connect services with a “managed Over-The-Top (OTT) cloud connect service.” What if managed service providers could expand their managed cloud […]
“Turn Me Loose” I finally delivered four large boxes of CDs to my local library – my collection of nearly 1,000 titles, some as old as 33 years, like my Loverboy CD, when I acquired them in back in 1985. And back in 1985, or […]