Aryaka State of the WAN Report 2017

Aryaka released their State of the WAN report for 2017 today. This is a report that uses data gathered from over 5000 locations in 63 countries, and reports on the…

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SD-WAN – or should we say WAN4.0?

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…

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What is the difference between a virtualised network and network virtualisation?

With the advent of compute virtualisation, it was necessary to extend the physical network from outside the host into the virtualised environment within the host. This is achieved with the…

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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…

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The Great British Internet Filter – how to protect children from the “bad” parts of the Internet

Yesterday David Cameron, Prime Minister, made a speech about making the internet safer for children by cracking down on online pornography. Let's look at what he said about an Internet…

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