Businesses today thrive on the constant availability of their IT infrastructure. Any disruption in network connectivity can grind productivity to a halt, interrupt customer or partner interactions, ...

Multisite and outsourced IT operations are making good use of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), but strange trouble is turning up more and more. Often in discussion with local network staffers, we ...

Some organizations are starting to use SD-WANs to securely access cloud services over business-class Internet connections. Mike Sapien, an industry analyst with Ovum, said there are many options when ...

Technologies of the next-generation enterprise WAN architecture deliver both of these at higher bandwidth and lower cost than MPLS. Having knocked down a number of the myths of why enterprises “need” ...

Verizon announced today it is using Viptela’s software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) platform. A new Verizon managed services offering, powered by Viptela's SD-WAN, is intended to allow ...

As we started to address a couple columns back, until recently, for a serious enterprise WAN, you probably needed MPLS. Thanks to the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture, this is no ...