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 […]
Nav Chander
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As enterprises and government agencies continue to migrate applications to the cloud and embrace IaaS, they are increasingly turning to leading hyper-scale cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or Google Cloud to directly connect or host their […]
As more than 100,000 attendees from around the world descend on Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona this week, there will be many new and exciting communications technologies on display, ranging from IoT to 5G to augmented reality to artificial intelligence, machine learning and SD-WAN […]
As we begin 2018, enterprises continue to accelerate their migration of workloads to public cloud service providers (AWS, Azure and Google), often as part of an overall Digital Transformation (DT) and cloud-first IT strategy. This is not surprising as IDC predicts that by the end […]
We are excited to participate in the upcoming MEF 17 conference in Orlando Florida, one of the industry’s most informative service provider events of the year. There is a lot of buzz and interest in managed SD-WAN services and they are a key focus area […]
The SD-WAN market continues to experience phenomenal growth. A September 2017 IDC SD-WAN survey highlights that 75 percent of U.S. enterprises plan to adopt an SD-WAN solution in the next two years. Enterprises are eager to embrace and deploy SD-WAN solutions because they provide many […]
October 18th marked the beginning of an innovative new business model for delivering managed SD-WAN services to enterprises. This week, Fujitsu and Silver Peak announced a partnership to deliver an SD-WAN-as-a-service offering that combines the expertise of Fujitsu’s SDN/NFV managed network services with the enterprise-grade […]
Most service providers are continuing to invest significant capital and operational resources in selecting, on-boarding, testing and integrating various vendor-specific virtualized network functions (VNFs) as part of a long-term network functions virtualization (NFV) strategy. On-boarding VNFs is the process by which a VNF is made […]
We are excited to announce today that Silver Peak has joined MEF. With 130+ members, MEF’s new SD-WAN initiatives are intended to address implementation challenges and help service providers to accelerate managed SD-WAN service deployments. Some of this work involves defining SD-WAN use cases, and […]
Many of you are already aware that an SD-WAN enables distributed enterprises to connect users to applications with the flexibility to use any combination of underlying transport technologies (MPLS, broadband, LTE), bring branch offices online quickly and become more agile, all while saving money. The […]