Tag: WAN

July 18, 2024

Just where and how WAN (wide area network), SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network), and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) fit is an almost universal question today for many company network planners. If you don’t have SD-WAN or SASE, which is […]

February 27, 2024

Broadcom wasted little time putting an old stamp on newly integrated VMware product – VMware VeloCloud SASE, secured by Symantec – aimed at helping customers secure highly distributed network resources. The single-vendor SASE offering revives VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN branding and […]

December 14, 2023

So the poet Arthur Guiterman tells us. Time marches on. The days when enterprises built their own networks using routers and digital trunks are, for all practical purposes, gone. Thirty years ago, more than three-quarters of enterprises said that was […]

October 2, 2023

As connectivity demands explode, Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is expected to play a critical role. Similar to cloud computing, NaaS eliminates the need for an enterprise to buy and manage WAN routers, switches, next-generation firewalls, VPN boxes, and more. However, enterprises that […]

July 3, 2023

Faster speeds, lower latency, improved reliability, greater capacity, and emerging capabilities such as network slicing is making 5G an attractive option for enterprises looking for agile WAN connectivity. There are a couple of reasons behind the increased adoption of 5G […]

June 12, 2023

OK, it’s not been a great first half for many companies, from end users to vendors and providers. The good news is that users sort of believe that many of the economic and political issues that have contributed to the […]

May 31, 2023

Nokia announced new, optimized Core Network software solutions for the field and wide area network (FAN/WAN) needs of public safety and power utilities, expanding the portfolio range available to large, mission-critical enterprises and governments, and reflecting Nokia’s deeper push into […]

May 1, 2023

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is an enterprise networking technology category introduced by Gartner in 2019. It converges the functions of network and security solutions into a unified, global cloud-native service. SASE allows an architectural transformation of enterprise networking and […]

April 11, 2023

The transition from software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) to secure access service edge (SASE) is proving to be difficult for many enterprises, according to new research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). If you’re a network or security professional, you’re probably familiar with […]

March 13, 2023

This is an important question, with a simple answer: it depends. And the main thing it depends on is, why an organization wants an SD-WAN in the first place. Answering that goes a long way to answering the size question. […]

March 13, 2023

Everyone wants the best network, so they say, but as usual with “bestness” goals, there’s not much agreement on how to achieve it. Do you go for best-of-breed in your equipment, or maybe for three vendors per product area, or […]

January 6, 2023

I’ve predicted that virtual networks will be hot in 2023, but that begs the question of what exactly a “virtual network” is. One definition says, “not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so”, and […]

October 17, 2022

Startup Graphiant emerged from stealth mode last month with what it describes as an enterprise-grade network service that provides the privacy, security, and reliability of MPLS but with the cost effectiveness, agility, and scalability of broadband internet. In addition, the […]

September 27, 2022

As the Log4J crisis made clear, understanding what is in the software unpinning your applications is crucial to understanding your security posture. This is no less true of your network services. Enterprise-network infrastructure is still very much about hardware in […]

September 7, 2022

To address the decreasing interest in sports among younger audiences, Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is turning to advanced stadium and in-game technologies. As part of this modernization journey, MiLB has selected Extreme Networks as its official Wi-Fi solution, Wi-Fi analytics […]

June 15, 2022

Cisco is set to offer the first fruits of its technology that promises to let enterprises proactively avoid network problems and increase application performance. At its Cisco Live event this week the company took the wraps off ThousandEyes WAN Insights […]

June 13, 2022

Over the past few years, companies have had to adapt to remote work environments, hybrid work environments and everything in between. Organizations across industries managed the transition by accelerating digital transformation efforts, rapidly adopting new tools and technologies. While this […]

May 31, 2022

Arriving at a consensus on when 6G wireless will be widely available commercially is all but impossible, as this small sample size shows: Northeastern University researchers: More than five years, but probably not long after Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark: Definitely […]

May 25, 2022

An IP address is a long string of numbers assigned to every device connected to a network that uses Internet Protocol as the medium for communication; it’s the digital world’s equivalent of the mailing address associated with your home or […]

April 19, 2022

The way to think about the business of IoT – the opportunity of it, newly enabled by blockchain-based, crowd-sourced, low-powered IoT networking – is as a virtuous circle, where infrastructure set down to drive operational savings also creates new enterprise […]