Jim participated in a recent Network World online chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration. The way these chats work is that for an hour Network World readers type ...

Enterprise networks are not just expensive; they’re risky and complex – and they aren’t getting easier… The WAN (Wide Area ...

Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WANs) is arguably the hottest topic in the software-centric enterprise networking transformation, but recent research shows the industry is still struggling ...

Software-defined WAN offers a lot of potential benefits including price, efficiency, and performance, but it’s not right for all sites. This is an important question, with a simple answer: it depends.

A router that has two wide area network (WAN) ports for connection to different Internet providers. Dual WAN routers are useful in areas with frequent ISP outages, and they can be configured to switch ...

The group released the draft of its SD-WAN service definition standard, with the official publication of the standard expected in July following board approval.

Happiness is expectations minus reality. So, what should one expect when testing VoIP on a software-define WAN solution? The expectation in the branch is to get even better performance and security ...

Software that speeds up transmission in a wide area network. Various techniques are used including compression and the application of quality of service (QoS) parameters to packets. If an application ...

After a sizeable uptick in the immediate post-pandemic world of work, questions are being raised over whether the software-defined wide area networ k (SD-WAN) is now yesterday’s news. For those who ...

Cisco's acquisition of Viptela won't boost the networking giant's position in the fast growing software-defined WAN market, according to Kumar Ramachandran, founder and CEO of SD-WAN startup ...

Industry association MEF has completed what it claims to be the first global standard defining a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), along with its service attributes. Specifically, the ...