SD-WAN Edge Routers and their importance in SDN environments

SD-WAN Edge Routers and their importance in SDN environments

Today we are experiencing a revolution based on networking solutions that improve network optimization and are able to combine Core network architecture with cloud and multi-cloud. SD-WAN solutions provide this WAN optimization by allowing us to define the use of WAN access resources and helping companies to use bandwidth more efficiently, ensuring the best performance for critical applications...

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SD-WAN – digital transformation in times of COVID-19

SD-WAN – digital transformation in times of COVID-19

The world is different now to how it was a few weeks ago. Owing to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the declaration of a pandemic, we have been forced to take unprecedented global measures. With the bulk of the population confined to their homes, many companies, from SMEs to multinationals, have been forced to send their employees home and provide them with the right tools so that they can work...

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DevOps and Cloud: A Perfect Symbiosis

DevOps and Cloud: A Perfect Symbiosis

I’ve always been fascinated by the way in which different computing concepts get converted into common knowledge and how, depending on who’s speaking about a certain concept, that person will tend to assimilate it according to their own field of knowledge and action. This article is the result of a conversation I had with a colleague who interpreted DevOps as related to operational efficiency...

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Uptime is down. Long live the fleeting!

Uptime is down. Long live the fleeting!

Since the early days of systems administration, a god has hovered over server rooms: uptime. uptime tells us how long a server has been on, which indirectly indicates how long it has been since it had a problem requiring a reboot. Operating systems have always had commands to display server uptime, figures that, indirectly, were also indicative of how good a job the administrators were doing....

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Liquid telecommunications or communications

Liquid telecommunications or communications

Very rarely do leading technology companies and professionals get the chance to see how societal changes impact the core of our business. In this sense, we cannot help but notice how our connectivity paradigms mirror the human sphere of our society. Trends in technology are often influenced by the changes that shape our world and social environment. Here, I would like to take a moment to talk...

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Application-Aware Routing related to SD-WAN

Application-Aware Routing related to SD-WAN

Application-Aware Routing is a change to the way we think about how data packets should be routed through an IP network and is closely related to SD-WAN, Policy-based routing and the use of SLA’s – Service Level Agreements. Ever since the beginning of the Internet, sending information between two Internet points has been done by breaking the information down into packets and adding some header...

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