SD-WAN might have begun as a networking technology, but the SD-WAN’s future lies in security. Integrating branch security features into SD-WAN, allow leaner, simpler remote office deployments. To ...

A few years ago the concept of aligning IT with business goals became a popular topic in the industry press. Unfortunately, while virtually nobody argued that you should not make that alignment, few ...

The enterprise Wide Area Network (WAN) is much more than a way to send data from point A to point B. New cloud WAN services are reimagining the role of the network in digital strategy—opening new ...

Enterprise network managers must rethink the traditional hub-and-spoke MPLS architecture if they're ever to enable true business agility. Agility has been a critical business and IT goal for so long ...

Extreme Networks has announced its intent to acquire Ipanema Technologies, the SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) and SASE (secure-access service edge) division of Infovista. France-based ...

"We are more in control over our destiny with SD-WAN,” said Bobby Umfress II, director of IT infrastructure and operations at Alabama One Credit Union in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A credit union in Alabama ...

I love it when a product’s best use case emerges as an unintended consequence of past efforts, or from a “happy accident.” In the case of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) emerging as a ...

Amazon Web Services on Thursday launched a preview of AWS Cloud WAN, a service to build, manage, and monitor global private wide area networks (WAN) using AWS. The service is for organizations that ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) and the Wide Area Network (WAN) are both types of data networks. Their main difference is in scale, with LANs intended for communication within a room or building and WANs ...

Dell EMC is the latest networking vendor to point to SD-WAN as the future for the evolution of the open networking movement, which emphasizes disaggregated, modular, software-centric systems over ...