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Recent buzz in the growing software-defined networking space has been all about SD-WANs, but a new pact between Orange Business Services and Cisco Systems shows the enterprise LAN is also getting more software-defined attention.
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Riverbed and Versa Networks, two players in the burgeoning software-defined wide-area network arena, have entered into a partnership that targets large enterprise penetration.
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Security specialist Fortinet announced a new solution to extend protection to branch networks and devices on the network access edge for enterprises with software-defined wide-area network implementations.
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AT&T tops what research firm claims to be the first benchmark for U.S. Software-Defined Wide-Area-Networking services.
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Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking is arguably the hottest topic in the software-centric enterprise networking transformation, but recent research shows the industry is still struggling to define the wide-ranging space.
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A new survey by Juniper Networks reveals a software-defined future for the industry, with software-defined wide-area-networking serving as the entry point for many organizations.
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Interconnection specialist Equinix has debuted a software-centric service leveraging network functions virtualization (NFV) to help its customers moving IT to the edge connect digital supply chains.
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Spirent Communications, specializing in testing solutions for the evolving software-defined networking space, announced what it claims to be the first standards-based network functions virtualization cloud testing platform.
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General availability of the final draft standard developed by the industry association in order to facilitate market growth is the last step before the comprehensive document is finalized and published, which is expected in mid-July.
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Riverbed, known for its Digital Performance Platform, has updated its software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) offerings, while also announcing SaaS Accelerator, targeting Software-as-a-Service apps such as O365, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Box.
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Tata Communications, a digital infrastructure provider, announced a new managed service that it says can help enterprises simplify their complex legacy networks by transforming them into customized multi-cloud native hybrid networks.
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Dell Technologies and Orange are exploring new technology areas -- such as near real-time edge computing and IoT services -- to meet the demands coming with 5G.
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London-based Colt Technology Services expanded its software-defined networking-based On Demand networking solutions to the United States and other new markets.
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ADARA announced a new beta offering that takes its software-defined wide-area network for personal clouds and Internet of Things (IoT) implementations to the mobile arena.
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Cisco Systems announced SD-WAN Cloud onRamp for CoLocation, designed to simplify deploying and managing software-defined wide-area networks for multiple branches distributed over several regions.
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A new cloud-based management tool from software-defined wide-area network specialist Cybera aims to increase visibility of operations on remote site networks.
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VMware Inc. announced a deal to integrate its SDDC platform with VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure from Dell Technologies, targeting on-premises datacenters and edge locations.
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Cologix announced a new self-service tool to ease enterprise software-defined networking connectivity to the cloud.
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Security specialist Fortinet announced what it claims is the industry's first application-specific integrated circuit for the burgeoning software-defined wide-area networking space.
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netElastic unveiled an enterprise branch router featuring software-defined wide-area networking to ensure mission-critical business applications are identified and prioritized over less important traffic.
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Versa Networks is yet another software-defined wide-area network specialist to provide its wares in a cloud-delivered managed service, a growing trend in the industry.
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Add Citrix Systems to the growing list of software-defined wide-area network vendors taking their wares to the cloud -- in this case the Google Cloud Platform.
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ADARA Networks unveiled a cloud version of its software-defined wide-area network solution, promising to reduce network latency and improve performance via real-time performance monitoring and programmability.
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Cisco Systems followed up on its ACI Anywhere initiative announced last January that seeks to extend its software-defined networking technology called Application Centric Infrastructure beyond the datacenter -- in this case to the AWS cloud.
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Israeli start-up flexiWAN has emerged from stealth with a software-defined wide-area networking offering that portends the "second wave of SD-WAN," marked by an open architecture in addition to open source software.