SDN and the Internet of Everything
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is having an ongoing impact on the design of network equipment and in how users architect their environment. The abstraction of the control and management planes from...
View ArticleDo SDN and NFV Make MTTR Meaningless?
Maybe I am just in a strange mood. It happens every now and then. However, based on some recent work I have been involved with, the following questions keeps running around my head: A few years from...
View ArticleUnderstanding Service Chaining
One of the emerging topics of conversation related to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has been something called “service chaining”. The topic has gotten a fair bit of media focus of late, resulting...
View ArticleSD-WAN To The Rescue
Sofware-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) technologies are a hot topic right now in the networking world. Here we have a case of two extremes coming together. One extreme is the WAN, which has seen little...
View ArticleManaging the IoT Sprawl
My Day at the Races I recently got myself invited to a Formula-1 event and expected a grandstand seat to watch the races. I quickly realized that that was not going to work. If you are close enough to...
View ArticleInternet Connections Can Be Used For More Than Best Effort Traffic
The topic of WAN transformation is certainly nothing new, but the shift to mobile and cloud computing is making the evolution of the WAN something businesses must make a priority. Prior to being an...
View ArticleHow Should You Be Thinking About Your WAN?
For a twenty year period that began in the mid-1980s the enterprise WAN went through a series of transitions, starting with Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) based on T1 access and then moving on to...
View ArticleIs Your Network Paying the Price for Internet Backhaul?
In the traditional approach to branch office networking, organizations backhauled their Internet traffic to one or more of their data centers. The advantage of backhauling is that it gives network...
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