CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

The answer Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs). SD-WAN brings unparalleled agility and cost savings to networking. With SD-WAN, organizations can deliver more responsive, more predictable applications at lower cost in less time than the managed MPLS services traditionally used by the enterprise. How Does SD-WAN Work?

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Kentik

MARCH 26, 2018

Looking back at the flood of announcements and the flurry of M&A activity, it’s fair to say that 2017 was the “Year of the SD-WAN.” Or at least the year that SD-WANs were permanently etched into our collective consciousness. The benefits of SD-WANs are compelling both economically and operationally.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week, we learned the SD-WAN market is forecasted to reach $3.3 Facebook uses Open/R to support its wide-area networks, data center fabric and wireless mesh topologies. Here are those headlines and more: Cisco, VMware in SD-WAN market ‘two-horse race’ (SDxCentral). AT&T makes its SD-WAN ‘dynamic’ (SDxCentral).

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How Funky

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I am going to focus on the Aruba SD-Branch solution (their combination of SD-WAN -LAN and Cloud making it SD-Branch) presentation that is only a portion of the overall presentation that Aruba gave at Network Field Day 21. We started with an overview presentation ( [link] ) around Why SD-Branch and how it is different than tradition SD-WAN.

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Kentik

MARCH 18, 2018

Whether it’s for a college, university or K-12 institution, networking and IT teams engaged in the management and monitoring of campus networks are facing some big challenges today: Maintaining very large, complex local wireless and fixed WAN networks that include access to research networks that span broad geographies.

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