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Riding the SD-WAN Wave
#137677454 / gettyimages.com Software Defined Networking has changed the way that organizations think about their network infrastructure. Companies are looking at increasing automation of mundane...
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Hypermyopia In The World Of Networking
The more debate I hear over protocols and product positioning in the networking market today, the more I realize that networking has a very big problem with myopia when it comes to building products....
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SDN and the Trough Of Understanding
An article published this week referenced a recent Hype Cycle diagram (pictured above) from the oracle of IT – Gartner. While the lede talked a lot about the apparent “death” of Fibre Channel over...
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This WAN Is Your WAN, This WAN Is My WAN
Straw Bales on Hill Landscape, Tuscany, Italy Ideas coalesce all the time in every vertical. You don’t really notice it until you wake up one day and suddenly everything around you looks identical....
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Is The Rise Of SD-WAN Thanks To Ethernet?
SD-WAN has exploded in the market. Everywhere I turn, I see companies touting their new strategy for reducing WAN complexity, encrypting data in flight, and even doing analytics on traffic to help...
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Sorting Through SD-WAN
SD-WAN has finally arrived. We’re not longer talking about it in terms of whether or not it is a thing that’s going to happen, but a thing that will happen provided the budgets are right. But while...
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The Future Of SDN Is Up In The Air
The announcement this week that Riverbed is buying Xirrus was a huge sign that the user-facing edge of the network is the new battleground for SDN and SD-WAN adoption. Riverbed is coming off a number...
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Cisco and Viptela – The Price of Development Debt
Cisco finally pulled themselves into the SD-WAN market by acquiring Viptela on Monday. Viptela was considered to be one of, if not the leading SD-WAN vendor in the market. That Cisco decided to pick...
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VMware and VeloCloud: A Hedge Against Hyperconvergence?
VMware announced on Thursday that they are buying VeloCloud. This was a big move in the market that immediately set off a huge discussion about the implications. I had originally thought AT&T...
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Can Routing Be Oversimplified?
I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to see this Reddit thread yet, but it’s a funny one: We eliminated routing protocols from our network! Short non-clickbait summary: We deployed SD-WAN and turned...
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The Voice of SD-WAN
SD-WAN is about migrating your legacy hardware away from silos like MPLS and policy-based routing and instead integrating everything under one dashboard and one central location to make changes and...
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Are We Seeing SD-WAN Washing?
You may have seen a tweet from me last week referencing a news story that Fortinet was now in the SD-WAN market: Fortinet cites a 7-figure SD-WAN win in their earning call. In other news, @Fortinet...
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QoS Is Dead. Long Live QoS!
Ah, good old Quality of Service. How often have we spent our time as networking professionals trying to discern the archaic texts of Szigeti to learn how to make you work? QoS is something that seemed...
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The Confluence of SD-WAN and Microsegmentation
If you had to pick two really hot topics in the networking space right now, you’d be hard-pressed to find two more discussed than SD-WAN and microsegmentation. SD-WAN is the former “king of the hill”...
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The End of SD-WAN’s Party In China
As I was listening to Network Break Episode 257 from my friends at Packet Pushers, I heard Greg and Drew talking about a new development in China that could be the end of SD-WAN’s big influence there....
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SD-WAN Squares and Perplexing Planes
The latest arcane polygon is out in the SD-WAN space. Normally, my fortune telling skills don’t involve geometry. I like to talk to real people about their concerns and their successes. Yes, I know...
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Magical Mechanics
If you’re a fan of this blog, you’ve probably read my last post about the new SD-WAN magic quadrant that’s been making the rounds and generating discussion. Some people are smiling that this report...
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SD-WAN and Technical Debt
Back during Networking Field Day 22, I was having a fun conversation with Phil Gervasi (@Network_Phil) and Carl Fugate (@CarlFugate) about SD-WAN and innovation. I mentioned that it was fascinating to...
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The Silver (Peak) Lining For HPE and Cloud
You no doubt saw the news this week that HPE announced that they’re buying Silver Peak for just shy of $1 billion dollars. It’s a good exit for Silver Peak and should provide some great benefits for...
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