Riverbed Technology in October 2015 unveiled what officials called “Project Tiger,” an initiative by the newly private company to make a push into the burgeoning software-defined WAN space.
The vendor on Jan. 19 took a significant step in that direction when officials announced that it was buying Ocedo, a company based in Germany that offers an array of products—including gateways, switches, access points and an integrated cloud management system—designed for the SD-WAN and software-defined networking (SDN) spaces.
