Back on Network Collective's Underlay with Jordan Martin and Eyvonne Sharp. The early SD-WAN hype said MPLS was dead. Several years in, Matt Ouellette and I talked through what customers were actually doing when they picked circuits for their SD-WAN.
26 Jun 2019 · 1 min read
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
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
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
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
As interest in software defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) grows, many traditional telecommunications providers are jumping on the bandwagon to bundle their data and voice service offerings.
21 Jun 2016 · 2 min read
April 2016, two months after we started WAN Dynamics. The launch video for DynaWAN, our managed SD-WAN service built on VeloCloud, Bigleaf and Talari.
6 Apr 2016 · 1 min read