Tag: SDN

October 15, 2019

In this day and age, demands on networks are coming from a variety of sources, internal end-users, external customers and via changes in the application architecture. Such demands put pressure on traditional architectures. To deal effectively with these demands requires […]

August 1, 2019

Cisco this week celebrated the second anniversary of its purchase of SD-WAN vendor Viptela and reiterated its expectation that 2019 will see the technology change enterprise networks in major ways. In a blog outlining trends in the SD-WAN world, Anand […]

July 29, 2019

5G networks are the talk of the mobile world, with a few test markets already available in the US and the UK. The launch of 5G networks marks a sea change in greater global connectivity and a radical departure from […]

July 1, 2019

The TCP/IP protocol is the foundation of the internet and pretty much every single network out there. The protocol was designed 45 years ago and was originally only created for connectivity. There’s nothing in the protocol for security, mobility, or […]

June 12, 2019

As many companies look to SD-WAN technology to reduce costs, improve connectivity and streamline branch office access, one of the key requirements will be solid security technologies to protect corporate resources. At its Cisco Live customer event here this week, […]

April 16, 2019

Hardware reigned supreme in the networking world until the emergence of software-defined networking (SDN), a category of technologies that separate the network control plane from the forwarding plane to enable more automated provisioning and policy-based management of network resources. SDN’s […]

March 21, 2019

Things that seem obvious today were not always that way. At some point, someone with a bit of courage and a flash of insight makes a bold move—like sticking a digital camera on the back of a phone. The rest […]

March 18, 2019

Early 5G deployments are limited in coverage scope and capacity but, as operators fine tune their spectrum allocation, scale service offerings and the technology continues to mature, expect much more than simply an enhanced mobile broadband experience. Indeed, the long […]

March 15, 2019

It has been just 10 months since Tom Gillis became VMware’s senior vice president and general manager of its networking and security business, and in that time he has overseen some major changes in the company’s core products. Most recent […]

February 26, 2019

Like electricity and water, cellular connectivity has become a commodity that’s an essential part of modern society, the medium that will allow innovation in real-time data environments. and its ability to innovate in real-time data environments. Increasingly mobile and distributed […]

January 28, 2019

With 5G, network operators are evolving to a cloud-based network model that will reduce costs, scale rapidly and speed the development of new services. However, as we move cloud technologies out of the data center and into the wide area […]

January 23, 2019

The government in Durham County, N.C., was spending hours and hours manually provisioning its network and keeping security policies current, so it decided two and a half years ago to upgrade for the sake of efficiency and security. Since then, […]

January 15, 2019

Go to any trade show or technology event and you will see Software Defined {insert name here} everywhere. Each vendor promising the panacea of ease of use, cost savings, and being ready for the future of IoT and beyond. Moving […]

December 13, 2018

According to Rohit Mehra, Vice President, Network Infrastructure, IDC, “the emergence of SD-WAN technology has been one of the fastest industry transformations we have seen in years1.”The high growth potential of the SD-WAN market means that competition is high among […]

October 30, 2018

Harrison Lewis wasn’t looking for SD-WAN, but he’s glad he found it. Northgate Gonzalez, which operates 40 specialty grocery stores throughout Southern California, had distributed its compute power for years. Each store individually supported applications with servers and other key […]

October 8, 2018

Twenty-five years ago, the pain in my wrists was unbearable. I was spending 10-12 hours a day creating presentations about the OSI model and the power of a multiprotocol network (yeah, I’m old). After visiting a doctor and physical therapist […]

September 25, 2018

As we have discussed in our Software-Defined Branch (SD-Branch) blog series, part 1 examined SD-Branch hardware and software, while part 2 explored orchestration and management options. To sum it up-the Cisco SD-Branch solution provides a simplified, software-based approach to branch […]

August 6, 2018

It’s been uttered time and again – 5G isn’t just another G. It will usher in a new era of connectivity, acting as the catalyst for applications like AR/VR, V2I and V2V communications and the IoT. The telecoms industry moves […]

July 5, 2018

For many service providers, the digital transformation journey may not be the smoothest. Many service providers (SP) are going through a phase where they are either trying to understand the new technologies or in the process of early adoption and […]

July 5, 2018

InterDigital and Orange demoed a service-based architectural approach to the 5G control plane 5G, as it continues to develop and be built out, is envisioned as a flexible connectivity medium that trades off proprietary equipment for a cloud-native architecture supported […]