Lights-out WAN management is built upon an integrated system that provides three key management functions: find, configure and monitor. Relative to find, what is needed as a minimum is the ability to ...

The WAN (Wide Area Network) isn’t just a critical important part of the enterprise network and information infrastructure, but also a key enabler of the innovation and convergence infrastructure. With ...

The last newsletter noted that Jim participated in a recent Network World chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration. Today, we’ll continue that thread by discussing ...

As data volumes continue to swell, organisations are continuously faced with the challenge of optimising their underlying network infrastructure in order to support the increasing flow of traffic.

Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) are quickly gaining popularity, in no small part because vendors are applying them to a bunch of diverse missions -- so diverse, in fact, that users often complain they ...

Customers can now extend network segmentation end-to-end across the LAN, SD-WAN fabric and cloud, while leveraging the AWS Global Network to improve security and reduce operational complexity and ...

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...