With the current architecture in place for more than 30 years, the WAN certainly is ready for change. I've been involved in networking for about 30 years now, having cut my teeth as an engineer during ...

The benefits behind the “software-defined” label are clear: Great advantages are gained by separating the data that people and machines send through a network from the data that controls how it all ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new book titled Software-Defined WAN For Dummies®, authored by the co-founders of VeloCloud and the executive director of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

It is hard to have a software defined networking (SDN) conversation without discussing Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN). SD-WAN is the leading SDN use case for businesses breaking free from the chains of ...

The noise in the Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN) marketplace has reached pandemonium levels, as a wide range of vendors seek to disrupt the hegemony of Cisco Systems in the networking ...

Increasing amounts of data are being transferred among data centers, cloud environments, branch offices and other remote locations, driven by data analytics, media traffic, storage demand and data ...

Google, an early backer of software-defined networking and OpenFlow, shared some details at the recent Open Networking Summit about how the company is using the technology to link 12 worldwide data ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Only 1% of companies use ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Software-defined wide-area networks ...

Software-defined interconnect startup Stateless today announced the general availability of its Luxon platform and says “five of the top five” cloud and colocation service providers are testing it.

Enterprise network managers must rethink the traditional hub-and-spoke MPLS architecture if they're ever to enable true business agility. Agility has been a critical business and IT goal for so long ...