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3 SD-WAN Deployment Options for Companies Looking to Invest In SDN

Rick Spencer — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:47:12 +0000

As we know software defined networking (SDN) is already becoming a more and more popular investment among multi-branch enterprises with help from drivers such as software-defined wide area networks (SD WAN) being deployed in various ways across nearly every industry. However, this doesn’t mean that everyone is onboard with SDN quite yet. There are various ...

Containers vs virtualization: which is superior?

James Piedra — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:00:16 +0000

Virtualization has been the foundation for many modern technologies, and that CAN’T go without saying for the next- generation network implementation: Network functions virtualization and software-defined networking (NFV/SDN). Virtualization has consistently been used to simplify deployment, management, orchestration and elasticity for communication service providers (CSP) and today leading CSPs have virtualized over half of their ...

Evolve and Adapt: The Network Equipment Industry In The SDN Era

James Piedra — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 23:12:18 +0000

It’s becoming harder for traditional network equipment vendors to compete with the freedom, low CAPEX and sheer flexibility that software-defined networks bring to the table. Proprietary hardware-based solutions from vendors are continuously losing out to open source software solutions deployed on top of much cheaper, open hardware like x86 network rackmount appliances. Linux, the largest ...