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West African Internet Outage

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag ace, Africa, Benin, broken, Cable, Cameroon, cieba, cote d'ivore, DNS, dyn, equitorial guinea, Europe, gambia, guinea, guinea-bissau, Internet, liberia, mauritania, Oracle Corporation, research, resilience, sat-3, satellite, senegal, sierra leone, subsea, wasc

Oracle's Dyn service have a research lab, who analyse information from the Internet. In the blog entry below, they look at the recent loss of connectivity on the ACE (Africa…

SDxCentral: CenturyLink Releases New Flavours of SD-WAN connectivity

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag CenturyLink, Internet, MPLS, resilience, SD-WAN, sdxcentral, versa, VPN, WAN

SDxCentral are reporting the CenturyLink have launched new flavours of their SD-WAN service. This continues the Versa Networks service originally deployed. It now looks like they have optimised the bundling…

June 2, 2017

IOX cable links India and South Africa

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag Africa, Alcatel, Asia, bandwidth, broadband, Cable, capacity, change, development, india, iox, latency, london, mauritius, Nokia, remote, resilience, rodrigues, routing, south africa, sri lanka, technology

IOX has started surveying a new route with Alcatel to link India and South Africa. IOX (Indian Ocean eXchange) will also connect the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues as waypoints on…

June 2, 2017

SD-WAN: What are the business benefits?

By John Dixon in Featured Tag ADSL, agility, Amazon, AWS, Azure, backup, bandwidth, bluemix, Cable, change, Cloud, complexity, costsaving, deployment, devops, fail, finance, gartner, governance, hybrid, IBM, Internet, iot, LTE, market, Microsoft, monitoring, MPLS, office 365, operations, packets, performance, policy, range, resilience, routing, SD-WAN, SDN, security, sla, space, switch, technology, voip, VPN, WAN, What Is?, Zscaler

What are the business benefits of SD-WAN deployment? SD-WAN stands for a Software-Defined Wide Area Network. It simplifies network management. It reduces the cost of the network infrastructure. It provides…

February 6, 2017

SD-WAN – or should we say WAN4.0?

By John Dixon in Featured Tag bandwidth, capacity, change, history, Internet, IPv4, IPv6, local internet breakout, LTE, monitoring, MPLS, pop, research, resilience, routing, SD-WAN, security, shared, sharing, standard, switch, technology, video, virtualisation, voip, VPN, WAN, What Is?

Is the current buzzword "SD-WAN" really new, or is it actually a progression of the WAN technologies we all know and love? Is it going to be a revolution or…

October 3, 2015

Three Bottlenecks of WAN – Bandwidth, Latency and Cost

By John Dixon in Featured Tag bandwidth, Cable, capacity, costsaving, Europe, extreme, Internet, latency, london, market, MPLS, NFV, packets, performance, QOS, resilience, Riverbed Technology, satellite, SD-WAN, servers, space, TCP, technology, UK, video, WAN, What Is?

There are three bottlenecks to Wide Area Networks (WANs) that don't exist in other environments, and these are Bandwidth, Latency and Cost. (And in true three pronged problem fashion, you…