Thoughts about emerging technology and trends in the networking industry.
A 2019 conversation on the Fortify Your Data podcast: how I found SD-WAN by selling against it, the shortest definition I can give, why it usually does not save money, and the manufacturer whose WAN was 60% YouTube.
20 May 2019 · 3 min read
Three SD-WAN analysts walk into a podcast. Greg Bryan of TeleGeography, Steve Garson of SD-WAN Experts and me, on the business drivers, hype versus real deployments, whether you can ditch MPLS for DIA, and how to build a vendor shortlist.
1 Mar 2019 · 1 min read
My first Network Collective appearance. Jordan Martin and Eyvonne Sharp wanted engineers who had designed, implemented and operated SD-WAN for real, now that the dust was settling in early 2019. Jedadiah Casey and I obliged.
9 Jan 2019 · 1 min read
WAN Dynamics has been spending a lot more time with Ansible when deploying and managing customer network environments. Arista is one of our closest partners so we use
16 Aug 2018 · 2 min read
On the tail of a new report that details how SDN & SD-WAN are becoming a mainstream consideration within many organizations, we have been pondering on why
20 May 2018 · 3 min read
Based on business needs, dual datacenter networks will evolve from an “active/standby” disaster recovery configuration that has an active primary datacenter carrying workloads and a site sitting
18 Apr 2018 · 4 min read
Want to see SD-WAN in action? WAN Dynamics CTO Jason Gintert presents an impromptu video showing just how incredibly seamless access failover is using VeloCloud SD-WAN.
2 Mar 2018 · 1 min read
For as long as organizations have tried to make real-time services like voice or video work over Internet Protocol (IP) network pipes, there have been very basic
1 Mar 2018 · 4 min read
Three minutes, no slides. An impromptu demo of pulling a circuit out of a VeloCloud edge and watching the call keep going. This is the moment that convinced me SD-WAN was real, recorded so I could stop describing it.
14 Nov 2017 · 1 min read
Originally written by Kevin Giusti for the WAN Dynamics site. Hosting to keep the knowledge alive! Though our name would imply we only work with wide area networks,
28 Sep 2017 · 5 min read
A VeloCloud webinar I hosted with Curtis McEwen of Saber Healthcare on scaling a healthcare network through acquisition without the WAN becoming the bottleneck.
19 Sep 2017 · 1 min read
The earliest interview in the archive. Eleven minutes with Phil Howard, the most bearded man in telecom, on where enterprise connectivity was heading, less than a year into WAN Dynamics.
25 Jan 2017 · 1 min read