Riverbed Unleashes A Hungry “Project Tiger”
“The future of the WAN is NOT . . . a router.” These bold words were spoken by Riverbed’s Josh Dobies in a presentation to the delegates at Networking Field Day 10 this August, as […]
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Riverbed – Another Angle on SD WAN
Riverbed’s entry –or perhaps “expansion”– into the SD WAN market is interesting to me primarily because the approach being taken is a little different from the other solutions I have seen so far. The Rest The […]
Geek Speak Round Up – Network Management
I mentioned a few months ago that I had been asked to write some thought-provoking blogs on the subject of network management for the Solarwinds Thwack Community “Geek Speak” area. I’ve now finished my six […]
Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN)
When I made a stab at defining SD WAN recently, I noted that Cisco’s IWAN solution had provided a bit of a contrast to some of the other Software Defined WAN solutions I’d seen; not […]
PlantUML – Making Complicated Diagrams Simpler
A colleague at work recently told me that I should check out PlantUML. His advice is usually good, and this is no exception. PlantUML uses a relatively simple text language to describe the desired diagram, […]
What is SD WAN?
Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD WAN) –sometimes known as SD-WAN and occasionally as Hybrid WAN– is evidently still the flavor of the month in Silicon Valley. Much as it seemed that anything with the […]