Jim participated in a recent Network World online chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration. The way these chats work is that for an hour Network World readers type ...

Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WANs) is arguably the hottest topic in the software-centric enterprise networking transformation, but recent research shows the industry is still struggling ...

Industry association MEF has completed what it claims to be the first global standard defining a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), along with its service attributes. Specifically, the ...

Software that speeds up transmission in a wide area network. Various techniques are used including compression and the application of quality of service (QoS) parameters to packets. If an application ...

A wireless wide area network (WWAN). Also called "wireless broadband" or "broadband wireless," wireless WANs use cell towers to transmit a radio signal within a range of several miles to a moving or ...

Industry association MEF today released the draft of its SD-WAN service definition standard, which describes the requirements for an application-aware over-the-top WAN connectivity service. This ...

While software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) evolved from the need to provide branch offices with access to corporate applications and enterprise software distributed over the public internet, ...

Happiness is expectations minus reality. So, what should one expect when testing VoIP on a software-define WAN solution? The expectation in the branch is to get even better performance and security ...

Cisco's acquisition of Viptela won't boost the networking giant's position in the fast growing software-defined WAN market, according to Kumar Ramachandran, founder and CEO of SD-WAN startup ...

Cisco's Cloud-Native SD-WAN project marries SD-WANs to Kubernetes applications to cut down on the manual work needed to optimize latency and packet loss. Cisco has introduced an open-source project ...