News Solo.io Launches Enterprise API Gateway GlooE By Wendy A Hernandez 12/11/2018 This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 in Seattle, Wash., Solo.io announced the launch of its newest product, Gloo Enterprise, or GlooE. The company describes GlooE as “an enterprise-grade API gateway based on its popular open source Gloo project.” According to […]
Ethernet Market Peaks, Despite ‘Software-Defined’ Movement
News Ethernet Market Peaks, Despite ‘Software-Defined’ Movement By David Ramel 12/10/2018 Despite the advent of open, game-changing movements like software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), the Ethernet switch and router markets reached an all-time high, new research indicates. Synergy Research Group published new Q3 data that illustrated the surprising strength of the Ethernet […]
Members Review ONF Next-Gen Networking Reference Designs
News Members Review ONF Next-Gen Networking Reference Designs By David Ramel 12/06/2018 The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) this week released for membership review the draft versions of reference designs being developed to advance open source solutions based on next-gen techniques like software-defined networking (SDN). The move marks a change in direction for the group, which […]
Versa Networks Teams Up for AWS Cloud Service
News Versa Networks Teams Up for AWS Cloud Service By David Ramel 12/03/2018 Versa Networks is working with several industry partners to offer secure software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) solutions tailored to work with the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud. The SD-WAN space is one of the more popular segments of the transormative software-defined networking […]
Cisco Forecasts Exploding SD-WAN Traffic
News Cisco Forecasts Exploding SD-WAN Traffic By David Ramel 11/28/2018 Cisco has released its big annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) report, which forecasts a huge rise in IP traffic, much of it driven by the exploding software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) market. SD-WAN growth provides perhaps the most visible sign of the disruptive, game-changing software-defined networking […]
Oracle Buys into SD-WAN Market
News Oracle Buys into SD-WAN Market By David Ramel 11/26/2018 Further proof that the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) space is leading the software-centric transformation comes with the news that Oracle is buying Talari Networks, a leading vendor in the arena. Talari is known for its proprietary Failsafe technology that reportedly adds greater reliability and predictability […]
Riverbed Sees SD-WAN Routing Upgrade Taming Complex Networks
News Riverbed Sees SD-WAN Routing Upgrade Taming Complex Networks By David Ramel 11/15/2018 Riverbed announced a new SD-WAN solution that it says uses enhancements such as an improved core routing stack to tackle the growing complexity of modern networks. Software-defined wide-area networks are an increasingly active segment of the software-defined networking (SDN) movement, which sees […]
Cisco Seeks Secure SD-WAN
News Cisco Seeks Secure SD-WAN By David Ramel 11/14/2018 Cisco is seeking to integrate more security into its offering for the exploding SD-WAN space with a multi-prong effort based on new hardware and software initiatives. As the software-defined networking (SDN) movement has transformed enterprise networking, its reach has expanded to include wide-area networks (WANs) beyond […]
Cloud-Based Enterprise WAN Service Promises MPLS Performance
News Cloud-Based Enterprise WAN Service Promises MPLS Performance By David Ramel 11/07/2018 New-age SD-WAN services typically tout lower cost, agility and other benefits over legacy Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) implementations, but performance and quality of service have often been sticking points in favor of the latter. Teridion claims to further tip the balance in favor […]
MEF Defines an SD-WAN Service
News MEF Defines an SD-WAN Service By David Ramel 11/05/2018 Networking industry association MEF is officially defining what makes up a software-defined wide-area-network (SD-WAN), one of the most popular areas of the transformative shift from hardware-based to software-based networking. The effort to define an SD-WAN service will help industry players be on the same page […]