Cox2M services target specific applications such as smart energy, smart agriculture and asset tracking. Services are turnkey, according to the company. Cox will support a range of IoT communications — some using unlicensed spectrum and some using other carriers’ . . .
A demo by service providers Verizon and Colt provided a real world end customer scenario – requesting on-demand bandwidth changes – can work between two carrier’s production networks. The demo highlighted SDN technology.
One customer saved $500 a month per location for 25 locations by switching from Ethernet to Windstream SD-WAN.
Some CenturyLink, Level 3 synergies — such as reduced head count and real estate savings — are the kind we would expect from any merger. Others are unique to telecom, as the company’s CEO Sunit Patel explained at an investor conference.
An SD-WAN report conducted by Dimensional Research for SD-WAN developer Versa Networks found that 85% of enterprises are considering adopting the software-based approach to networking. Key drivers include . . .
An AT&T SD-WAN international expansion will make the technology available in 150 countries. AT&T’s SD-WAN—Network Based offering enables companies to manage multiple sites with varying levels of reliability, performance and bandwidth while maintaining Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) features, the company said.