Businesses today thrive on the constant availability of their IT infrastructure. Any disruption in network connectivity can grind productivity to a halt, interrupt customer or partner interactions, ...

Multisite and outsourced IT operations are making good use of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), but strange trouble is turning up more and more. Often in discussion with local network staffers, we ...

Some organizations are starting to use SD-WANs to securely access cloud services over business-class Internet connections. Mike Sapien, an industry analyst with Ovum, said there are many options when ...

It may seem counter-intuitive for service providers to offer software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) as a managed service when it could cut into their MPLS revenues. But the business case is ...

Technologies of the next-generation enterprise WAN architecture deliver both of these at higher bandwidth and lower cost than MPLS. Having knocked down a number of the myths of why enterprises “need” ...

Wide area networks (WANs) have been around for half a century. WAN technology was originally developed to connect geographically dispersed areas over considerable distances, allowing businesses to ...

As we started to address a couple columns back, until recently, for a serious enterprise WAN, you probably needed MPLS. Thanks to the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture, this is no ...