Windstream Enterprise is expanding its SD-WAN portfolio by including an offering from Fortinet. The company had relied on VMWare solutions since 2017 – adding Fortinet’s SD-WAN technology will give customers additional choices and offers secure, cloud-ready networking capabilities combined with…
Carrier standards body MEF said today that it has released the final draft of its SD-WAN standard. The MEF SD-WAN standard aims to drive revenue for managed SD-WAN services by providing common service definitions that will enable end users to…
New rankings from Vertical Systems Group put AT&T, Hughes, Verizon, Windstream, CenturyLink, Aryaka, Fusion and Comcast, respectively atop its 2018 carrier managed SD-WAN leaderboard, which measures SD-WAN market share. According to Vertical Systems Group, these companies had the highest market…
Spectrum Enterprise, part of Charter Communications, unveiled the nationwide availability of its Managed SD-WAN service yesterday. Spectrum Enterprise claims a level of differentiation over competing SD-WAN solutions is an integration of SD-WAN and Ethernet with their solution. The Managed SD-WAN…
Carrier managed SD-WAN revenue will top $282 million this year, according to Vertical Systems Group, which has now initiated coverage of the category. The revenue figure is based on billable customer and WAN access connections that are installed and under…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Sprint’s (NYSE: S) Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) services have expanded reach worldwide, allowing enterprises to more simply and efficiently manage its global IT resources and application performance across any network at any…
Gigabit connectivity will be “transformational,” said Kevin O’Toole, senior vice president of project management for Comcast Business today, noting that Comcast gigabit is now available across 96% of the company’s footprint. O’Toole was equally enthusiastic about SD-WAN technology, commenting that…
A draft specification from the MEF aims to make it easier for enterprises to order software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services that span multiple network operators and to enable service to be established in an automated manner. The MEF…
SD-WAN technology is seeing substantial growth, according to a new SD-WAN adoption study commissioned by IT security vendor Barracuda Networks, Inc. One third of enterprise IT professionals surveyed said they had deployed SD-WAN at most of their locations. Nearly half…
A new CenturyLink SD-WAN offering is underpinned by an agreement with Cisco Viptela. The additional services focus on the Cisco Viptela vEdge series routers and enterprise network computer system 5000 series. The new offerings will enable customers to design, deploy,…
Frontier Communications has introduced Frontier Connect WAN, a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) offering. According to the company, the Frontier SD-WAN offering enables small businesses and enterprises to interconnect all their assets – headquarters, branch offices and others – securely and…
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