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Why latency is the new outage

Kentik

Not as difficult as time travel, but it’s difficult enough so that for 30+ years IT professionals have tried to skirt the issue by adding more bandwidth between locations or by rolling out faster routers and switches. Over the last few decades network managers have focused on adding bandwidth and reducing the network outages.

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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

Yes, there’s something to say about how applications are written, but on the public internet side, we’ve seen a decrease in latency, cost, and a massive increase in available bandwidth. We still need to connect our infrastructure to the public internet, so the enterprise WAN is still about routers, circuit IDs, and perimeter firewalls.

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How to Configure Static Routes on Cisco

NW Kings

In this blog, we will explore what static routes are, how they differ from dynamic routes, and how to configure them on routers like Cisco devices. This feature in networks predicts and stabilizes the topology. This characteristic makes them efficient for routers with limited processing capabilities.

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Why is my SaaS application so slow?

Kentik

Notice above that the routers used in the connection are looking pretty snappy. If you’re working from home, could it be possible that you’re competing with other local devices for that precious, limited bandwidth? If you have access to your local router, login and see if you can give connections to your SaaS application a priority.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

Be it power supplies, servers, routers, load balancers, proxies, or any other physical and virtual network components, the horizontal scaling that redundancy provides is the ultimate safety net in the presence of failure or atypical traffic demands. Top talkers are often the cause of outages for application stacks.

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Traditional WAN vs. SD-WAN: Everything You Need to Know 

CATO Networks

Traditional WAN Overview WANs were designed to connect distributed corporate locations, traditionally, with WAN routers at each location. These WAN routers defined the network boundaries and routed traffic to the appropriate destination. Scalability: Reliance on hardware also makes them difficult to scale.

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The business case for SD-WAN: Because MPLS is Not Fit for the Cloud

CATO Networks

The problem is that as companies adopt cloud-based services, deploy more bandwidth-intensive applications, and connect an increasing number of devices and remote locations, business requirements change and new technical challenges arise. However, it comes with performance limitations and other challenges.

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