Internet2 is undertaking an infrastructure upgrade across the United States aimed at “enabling scientific collaboration on a greater scale” and on-demand cloud connectivity while cutting carbon emissions. The research and education network will use Cisco 8201 and 8202 routers in…
Windstream’s Kinetic Business SD-WAN aims to bring benefits of the new architecture to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Kinetic Business SD-WAN is built on VeloCloud from VMware’s technology. SD-WANs are more flexible and less costly than previous technology. In many…
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…
Windstream fixed wireless wholesale Ethernet access service will be available to enterprises in 400,000 buildings in 50 markets in 2019, the company said today. Speeds range from 3 Mbps to 5 Gbps, with guaranteed four-nines availability, according to the company….
A new name on the regional fiber network scene has emerged as Segra was announced today as the new name and brand for the combined Lumos Networks and Spirit Communications. The two regional networks were combined as a result of…
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…
CenturyLink SD-WAN service, which makes networking more flexible and reduces costs, is now available in more than 30 countries. The offer includes hardware, software, controller infrastructure, and central administration via a customer portal. Options include next-generation security, CPE upgrades and…
AT&T is the top Ethernet provider worldwide, according to Vertical Systems Group’s Mid-Year 2018 Global Provider Ethernet Leaderboard. It’s the first U.S. company to hold the top global position. The carrier is followed by Colt (U.K), CenturyLink (U.S.), Orange Business…
Windstream SD-WAN services have become increasingly strategic to the company in recent months. At an investor conference yesterday, Windstream CEO Tony Thomas went as far as saying “We are the leader in SD-WAN.” Windstream is in a different position with…
Wholesale Ethernet access services got a boost when industry association MEF developed standards to simplify the process of ordering and provisioning services that span multiple carrier networks. MEF now aims to take that further for what it calls “managed access…
Seventy-four percent of medium-size to large enterprises participating in a survey by IHS Markit conducted SD-WAN lab trials last year. The survey found that many will move to production trials and live production this year. “As companies shift a greater…
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