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News in Networking: SD-WAN for $3.3B and Facebook’s Free Open/R Networking Tool

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Facebook uses Open/R to support its wide-area networks, data center fabric and wireless mesh topologies. Spectrum is leveraging its existing Ethernet footprint — it is the fourth largest US Ethernet provider — and a new customer portal to create an SD-WAN overlay using Nuage Networks’ software,” reported Light Reading.

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Internet Underlay Visibility is Critical for SD-WAN Overlays

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Classic enterprise WANs rely on services like MPLS and Carrier Ethernet that are fully managed by service providers from end to end. Yet the simple term SD-WAN belies the extraordinary impact these trends are having on enterprise networking. Internet underlay visibility is critical to ensuring the smooth operation of SD-WAN overlays.

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