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 […]
Managed SD-WAN
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In 2017, many service providers introduced their initial managed SD-WAN services to meet the early market demand, with service providers narrowing down and selecting one SD-WAN platform to bring a service offering to market. Throughout the year, service providers thoroughly tested multiple SD-WAN technologies with […]
Enterprises are confused today by the multiple messages and promotions surrounding managed SD-WAN services coming predominately from the technology vendors. Most service providers are getting lost in the marketing hype around the torrent of press releases regarding managed SD-WAN service partnerships. Clearly, SD-WAN technology vendors […]
Security capabilities with managed SD-WAN are encouraging adoption and faster deployment Beyond basic network connectivity and network-centric features such as WAN optimization, security has been one of the promised next-wave roadmap features surrounding managed SD-WAN services. In early customer deployments, network connectivity was the spotlight […]
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 […]
SD-WAN is quickly approaching mainstream adoption by enterprises; Ovum’s research finds that about one-third of enterprises are trialing or using the technology. Once service providers gain SD-WAN experience, they also find the technology a versatile tool for their broader platform, services, and architecture plans. Interoute, […]
Over the last two years, SD-WANs have been the hottest topic in networking. In that timeframe, SD-WAN solutions have evolved dramatically with many vendors recently implementing new, highly robust architectures and adding functionality such as routing and more sophisticated security. But, it is not just […]
The early days of offering a managed SD-WAN service that provides basic network connectivity are drawing to a close. There is clearly burgeoning demand from customers to manage the network providers and network types that make up the growing mix of SD-WAN bandwidth options. As […]
The migration of applications to the cloud is motivating enterprises to rethink how they architect their WANs, and this, in turn, has created the SD-WAN market category. The recent acquisition of VeloCloud by VMware, and of Viptela by Cisco earlier in the year, represent attempts by […]
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 […]