A press release from Silver Peak announces recent innovations for their SD-WAN product set. Enhancements to their EdgeConnect environment are Packet-iQ, a stateful firewall, firewall service chaining and Zscaler support.…
SDxCentral: Dutch Provider Selects Juniper’s Virtual MX Edge Router
Yesterday, SDxCentral reported that Dutch ISP A2B Internet have selected Juniper's vMX router as their first VNF. A2B's press release is available
Wikileaks “Vault 7” zero-day exploit affects 318 Cisco products
Cisco have published a security advisory that looks it could impact quite a few devices out there in your network. The timing of this (late on a Friday afternoon) wasn't…
Product Announcement: Cisco ENCS5000 NFV platform
One of the announcements at CiscoLive was the Cisco ENCS5000 NFV platform. ENCS5000 is effectively Cisco's branch-in-a-box device for running a virtualised routing, security and NFV platform. It uses the…
New kit “launched” at Cisco Live
So as part of the keynote speech here in Berlin where I am attending CiscoLive 2017, some new Cisco products were launched, or more properly exposed in more detail from…
vCE? What is a virtual customer edge?
If you're looking at an SD-WAN solution, some of the providers will offer you a vCE (virtualised Customer Edge) as part of the deployment. Are there advantages, and should you…
Cisco buys AppDynamics
AppDynamics provide an application performance monitoring platform, using tools to monitor application transactions and store this data in the cloud for analysis. By utilising the AppDynamics API within the program,…
RFC7514: Really Explicit Congestion Notification
The challenges of bufferbloat remain within the networks, and previous efforts to provide indications of full buffers and to manage flow rates have not lead to their intended outcomes. A…