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 ...

Wireless WAN has begun to rise in availability and utility, and to improve in affordability. It brings wide-area connectivity to just about any physical space and can hit speeds far in excess of older ...

SD-WAN is more than an alternative to MPLS. Zero-touch provisioning, application-aware routing and microsegmentation are just a few of the features that SD-WAN products and services can deliver.

SD-WAN vs VPN: How Many Tunnels Do You Need? Your email has been sent Choosing between SD-WAN vs VPN will impact your ability to scale effectively. VPNs are great for small networks, SD-WAN provides ...

Software-defined networking in a wide-area network (SD-WAN) isn't new anymore. It has welcomed itself into the ecosystems of companies across the globe as the next evolution of a better-performing ...

IT departments are being urged to refresh branch wide area network (WAN) equipment with software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) as they migrate applications to the cloud and renew network ...

Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) are quickly gaining popularity, in no small part because vendors are applying them to a bunch of diverse missions -- so diverse, in fact, that users often complain they ...

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 ...

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

As IT organizations become increasingly aware of the benefits of a software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), the rate of adoption is growing rapidly. International Data Corp. (IDC) forecasts ...

It seems like there's always a new software-defined networking WAN (SD-WAN) offering being added to the crowded market with both veteran IT companies and startups getting in on the action. And with ...