Wide area networks (WANs) have been around for half a century. WAN technology was originally developed to connect geographically dispersed areas over considerable distances, allowing businesses to ...

Digital transformation and cloud initiatives are changing the way IT organizations are thinking about and architecting the wide area network. It is estimated that over 70 percent of applications have ...

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 ...

It’s natural for IT shops to replicate their current hardware and architecture when it’s time to refresh networking equipment. But refresh cycles provide a valuable opportunity to introduce ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly ...

Michigan business leaders may regularly see the buzz surrounding SD-WAN, but many may not fully realize the positive impacts it can have on their operations. As SD-WAN becomes more widely adopted and ...

With the SD-WAN market in full swing, we’re seeing early signs of some maturity in the market. While early SD-WAN childhood efforts were around deployability and getting basic functionality working, I ...

Legacy network technology falls short in the cloud era, but the move to software defined WAN promises relief. Nobody wants to solve a problem just by throwing money at it, but that’s literally what ...

As IT organizations become increasingly aware of the benefits of a software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), the rate of adoption is growing rapidly. International Data Corp. (IDC) forecasts ...

It seems like there's always a new software-defined networking WAN (SD-WAN) offering being added to the crowded market with both veteran IT companies and startups getting in on the action. And with ...

Channel-first telecom management service provider Nitel is expanding its portfolio of managed services to include software-defined WAN and software-defined security services to its ecosystem of ...