There is a lot of hype over SD-WAN at the moment, with movements by telcos and OEM suppliers investing in some of the new startups. And folks that have been…
AT&T working with Velocloud to deliver SD-WAN
AT&T has unveiled its SD-WAN Hybrid Networking Strategy. They are collaborating with Velocloud to deliver an SD-WAN offering for their customers. In 2017, AT&T will be offering a hybrid networking…
Silver Peak confirm use in Masergy’s SD-WAN
Following the Masergy announcement of their managed SD-WAN service, Silver Peak confirm that the service uses their technology. It looks like the service uses all of the Silver Peak Unity…
Masergy launches SD-WAN solution
Masergy has launched a new managed SD-WAN solution. This solution will enhance their hybrid WAN capability. It will reach General Availability by Q4 2016, and to aid marketing, they have…
SDxCentral: Centurylink offers SD-WAN with Versa Networks Technology
SDxCentral reports that CenturyLink is offering an SD-WAN managed service to their customers. Deployed using the Versa Networks platform, this will offer their customers a managed service that reduces the…
Three Bottlenecks of WAN – Bandwidth, Latency and Cost
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…
Riverbed Stingray
The recent acquisitions by Riverbed of Aptimize and Zeus (to provide A to Z coverage?) have now been integrated into the Riverbed family. See Riverbed goes shopping for godly web…
Purple and Blue? Completed Packeteer and BlueCoat merger information
So Packeteer and BlueCoat have done the deed (as covered in my initial post Purple and Blue - Packeteer and BlueCoat), and Packeteer is now "A BlueCoat Company". Quick take-aways…