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 […]
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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 […]
Last month I attended the UC Expo show in London. A couple of months before that was the Enterprise Connect show in Orlando, Florida. Both events are dedicated to Unified Communications and all the supporting technologies surrounding it. There were a few expected marquee themes, […]
The concept of local internet breakout is a concept that’s been tossed around for decades. Sure, maybe you know a guy, who knows a guy that talked to a guy who deployed it once, but that’s about as close as any of us have come […]
Henderson Engineers – a national building systems design firm – is headquartered in Kansas City with offices nationwide. Henderson employs more than 700 people, has two data centers, and 11 branch offices in the U.S. Henderson requires a reliable, high performance WAN to connect its […]
For busy senior executives, getting commercial strategy execution right, is not a trivial matter. Preparing for strategy execution requires focus and tenacity as you must continuously monitor and evaluate business portfolios, growth opportunities, competitors, people, resources and risks. Your Wide Area Network (WAN) is a […]