SD-WAN vs. WAN Optimization Optimization of applications and data traffic has been an integral part of the WAN since its inception. WAN optimization accelerates application traffic by overcoming latency and reducing the amount of data traversing the WAN by applying techniques like protocol acceleration, deduplication, […]
SD-WAN
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Today, we embark on an innovative, new Over-the-Top (OTT) business model for delivering high-performance managed SD-WAN services to geographically distributed multi-national enterprises. Cognizant and Silver Peak are announcing a unique partnership to deliver an end-to-end SD-WAN as a service (SDWANaaS) offering that brings together the […]
IPsec is a critical element in building a scalable and secure SD-WAN fabric. The right IPsec is key to making it happen. Robert Sturt published an article title “SD-WAN vs. VPN: How do they compare?” While Robert tried to illustrate when and how to use […]
Continuing our homage to the iconic David Letterman Top Ten List from his former Late Show, Silver Peak is counting down the Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Router. Click for the #5, #6, #7, #8, #9 and #10 reasons to replace conventional branch […]
In a recent survey by Uptime Institute, one of the key findings showed that data center IT skill shortages will intensify as most operators continue to struggle with staffing issues. The primary driver cited is an aging worker pool and the overwhelming male makeup of […]
For the past three years, the software-defined WAN or SD-WAN, has been one of the most talked about technology trends. By some estimations there are 60+ vendors, all marketing their products around the concept of SD-WAN, each vying to carve out a piece of this […]
The software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) revolution knows no boundaries. Now the technology has found its way into a telemedicine backpack that can deliver real-time communications between doctors and first responders on scene in the field. Telemedicine pioneer swyMed, based in Lexington, Mass., offers a high-performance […]
Why are customers moving to SD-WAN? With more than 70 percent of applications having already moved to the cloud, forward-thinking enterprises are re-thinking their WAN strategy to attain the best return from their cloud investments. Many have discovered that traditional router-centric architectures that backhaul all […]
Sometimes it just comes down to simple economics: You can try to stretch your existing infrastructure to adapt to changing business requirements at a high cost, or you can go with next-generation technology to gain both efficiency and agility. Tennessee Oncology found that by implementing […]
We’re now more than half-way through our homage to the iconic David Letterman Top Ten List segment from his former Late Show, as Silver Peak counts down the Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Router. Click for the #6, #7, #8, #9 and #10 […]