This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. As the WAN matures, with ...

In the past few newsletters, we described in considerable detail the mechanisms that are in place in TCP to ensure efficient transport of information. In particular, we concentrated on the ability of ...

While there are many options for connecting all computing devices across different sites, a wide area network (WAN) is one of the best solutions for ensuring the highest levels of security, ...

While it has been a mainstay in the private sector for many years, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology is still slowly finding its way into the federal government. However, the ...

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...

As data volumes continue to swell, organisations are continuously faced with the challenge of optimising their underlying network infrastructure in order to support the increasing flow of traffic.

The current state of 5G sits at an inflection point. As 5G standalone networks continue to grow in number, network slicing capabilities are becoming more of a reality. The enterprise needs to take ...

CenturyLink Tuesday unveiled its Managed Hybrid SD-WAN, a set of packaged WAN offerings that consolidates disparate network services with CenturyLink's SD-WAN platform and managed services.

Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) are quickly gaining popularity, in no small part because vendors are applying them to a bunch of diverse missions -- so diverse, in fact, that users often complain they ...

Six months after introducing a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) to offer customers flexibility and choice as they optimise networks for cloud services, BT is launching a new managed secure ...

The uptake of software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) was on a solid upward trajectory before the onset of Covid-19, given further impetus by the parallel emergence and rise of secure access ...

The current state of 5G sits at an inflection point. As 5G standalone networks continue to grow in number, network slicing capabilities are becoming more of a reality. Director of Wireless WAN and ...