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...
Some days ago, I had the chance to go to the annual SD-WAN Summit, an event that has been held in Paris for the last 3 years. It is a great opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art solutions and share trends on wide-area network connectivity, since key industry players were present: manufacturers, carriers, analysts, researchers, and large companies with ambitious communication requirements....
For more than a decade now, hardware virtualization technology, more commonly known as virtual machines, has been the technology on which the production systems we know and use today in our information society have been based, and has made – in the midst of an economic crisis – the evolution of Internet-connected software and services profitable and sustainable. Let’s not forget, however, that...
SD-WAN technology provides customers the capability to manage their own network without requiring managed services from the traditional service providers. However, so that the client can manage its own platform, a powerful tool has to be used, which manages and solves incidents. One of the key advantages of SD-WAN is the generation of a secured overlay on top of the transport networks. This...
The SME (Small and Medium Business) sector is in the midst of a digital transformation and, therefore, immersed in constantly changing applications and a continuous evolution of private communications networks through the Internet., Hence the introduction of SD-WAN technology for the SME market could be precisely what is required to keep up with theseis fast-paced and complex developments. Yet...
What kind of Internet would we design today if we were to start from scratch using what we now know? In 2007, attempts to answer this question at Stanford University [1] led to a project by networking gurus and experts to analyze the present and future of IP networks. At the time, the mass mobile internet era was beginning; in fact, that very same year and barely twenty minutes from the...
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