SD-WAN might have begun as a networking technology, but the SD-WAN’s future lies in security. Integrating branch security features into SD-WAN, allow leaner, simpler remote office deployments. To ...

There was an interesting discussion over in one of the Cisco forums on how to calculate your WAN speed. Those of you who read my last post know that packet loss, latency, and bandwidth all play into ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) and the Wide Area Network (WAN) are both types of data networks. Their main difference is in scale, with LANs intended for communication within a room or building and WANs ...

As regular readers may recall, Comcast is my broadband Internet (WAN) service provider. And regular readers may also recall that MoCA is one of the LAN technologies in current use in my home ...

When introduced, software-defined WAN, or SD-WAN, promised to raise the standard of the then-current MPLS by delivering a high-quality network that eliminated infrastructure redundancies, and ...

Software-defined wide area networking helps small businesses easily manage networks at branch locations and helps make WANs more dynamic and efficient. If you were driving in an unfamiliar city and ...

WAN optimization in a large enterprise is a nascent and headline-grabbing market. Still, IT managers are faced with the burning question: Is it really worth the investment? The technology uses ...

The traditional network model of a central, physical data center hub with spokes running out to fixed locations has gone the way of the mainframe and electric typewriter – once mainstays of business.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN, a new managed wide area network (WAN) ...

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 ...

"We are more in control over our destiny with SD-WAN,” said Bobby Umfress II, director of IT infrastructure and operations at Alabama One Credit Union in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A credit union in Alabama ...