Standards are made to make things work together but must also be tied to the business interests. Standards can’t force companies or users to accept them, they need to bring value. Many standards failed because they missed this point. SD-WAN standards are still under construction. What’s going to be their focus and fate?
SD-WAN OTT Services Turning Telcos into Plumbers
The offering of a complete virtual network by cloud providers to enterprises, bypassing the service provider, shouldn’t come as a surprise. This will happen through acquisition of SD-WAN vendors or self-development.
Service providers should take their destiny in their own hands when it comes to enterprise network services or they will be left to do only the plumbing work.
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Security and SD-WAN Integration
What should be the level of security integration into SD-WAN products and services? That will be my question for the panel I moderate on the SD-WAN track at the MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress. Here are some vendor views on this topic.
Coming Fresh to an SD-WAN Company: An Interview with Talari Networks’ New CEO, Patrick Sweeney
Patrick Sweeney joined Talari Networks in late 2017 so I thought it is a great opportunity to get a fresh view on the SD-WAN vendor and market. The fact Patrick came from a cybersecurity company made it even more interesting. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to have a long video chat with him. This interview is the summary of this chat.
Survey Says: Security is Key in SD-WAN Deployment Decision Process
A review of enterprise survey about SD-WAN deployment considerations and enterprise network security as a challenge for enterprise WAN. MPLS cost being one of the SD-WAN deployment drivers raises the question, is MPLS really so expensive compared to business broadband?