Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD WAN – Is It Any Good?
Ok, so Silver Peak offers yet another SD-WAN solution, you say? Well yes, but is it really possible to have too many options when it comes to broadband and hybrid WANs? I say no; the […]
Tech Field Day
99 Problems and Configuration and Telemetry Ain’t Two
Isn’t SNMP just great? I love monitoring my network using an unreliable transport mechanism and an impenetrable and inconsistent data structure. Configuring my devices using automation is equally fun, where NETCONF has been subverted into something so […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]