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Last week Juniper announced it’s intent to acquire Mist Systems for $405M. Mist brings a lot of innovation to Wireless Networking while its competitors have not kept up with innovation. The full press release can be found at – https://newsroom.juniper.net/press-releases/juniper-networks-announces-intent-acquire-mist-systems-bring-ai-it-delivering In addition to cloud managed WLAN, Mist has many good features like: 1. ML/AI backed […]

One year ago, Cisco acquired Viptela which was one of the most successful SD-WAN startup. Viptela is a very well-designed SD-WAN solution that made SD-WAN adoption easy for large scale networks. Viptela SD-WAN solutions have several key features like Segmentation, Centralized Policies, Zero Touch Provisioning, Configuration Templates etc. that can be very helpful to the […]

Once you have made a good business case for SD-WAN, then you are ready to take the leap forward. You have to convert your motivation into technical requirements. After all, SD-WAN is a technology play in addition to cost savings. As a network manager or an architect, you have to pick the best technology that’s […]

Image source: gatesnotes.com Many industry experts were expecting the SD-WAN market to start consolidating in 2017. The predictions turned out to be true with a big surprise yesterday when Viptela announced that they are being acquired by Cisco. Cisco is paying $610M in cash to buy Viptela. The Cisco official press release can be found […]

Software-defined WAN is the future of networking, and many enterprises are showing an interest in the technology. IDC has predicted that the SD-WAN market will hit $6 billion by 2020. Rightfully so, because there are so many benefits to be gained through this new approach to wide-area networking. If you are a network architect who manages […]

  Network overlay technologies are not new. They have been around for many years and have been widely used in the networking industry. However, with the growth of SDN, some new network overlay technologies have been introduced. The network overlay techniques are used to from Virtual Private Networks (VPN). Many of the Data Center SDN […]