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…
Vertical Systems Group’s SD-WAN Leaderboard remained mostly stable through the end of last year. AT&T, Hughes, Verizon, CenturyLink, Windstream, Aryaka and Comcast each have at least a 2% SD-WAN market share, counting installed and billable carrier-managed customer sites in the…
Comcast and Charter/Spectrum are two of four service providers that have received MEF 3.0 SD-WAN certification from global standards body MEF. The MEF 3.0 SD-WAN standard, also known as MEF 70, defines key attributes of SD-WAN services. Service providers’ compliance…
MONROE, La., Feb. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — As new technologies emerge and data continues to grow, CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) is taking a bold approach to protecting network traffic and blocking security threats with the launch of CenturyLink Rapid Threat Defense. To learn…
MATTOON, Ill. – Jan. 21, 2020 – Consolidated Communications (NASDAQ: CNSL) a leading broadband and business communications provider, today announced its enhancement of SD-WAN, a software based technology solution that optimizes network performance using the Company’s private network and gateways. Consolidated added several…
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) announced that it won a task order, worth up to $1.6 billion, to provide secure network services and IT modernization solutions to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) via the General Services Administration’s Enterprise…
Los Angeles, 7 January 2020 – MEF is pleased to announce that Nuage Networks from Nokia, Versa Networks, and Infovista are the first technology vendors certified to support MEF 3.0 SD-WAN services. This certification enables service and technology providers to validate the conformance of their services and products…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Windstream Enterprise (WE), a managed communications service provider, has been recognized as the “2019 SD-WAN Service Provider of the Year – North America” by MEF, the prestigious nonprofit international telecom industry consortium. The MEF Awards program is the largest…
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is holding its annual conference this week in Los Angeles and the focus is abundantly clear. SD-WAN, the emerging enterprise connectivity application standard, is all the rage here and MEF leadership outlined the organization’s intention…
DALLAS and BELMONT, Calif., November 04, 2019 — AT&T (NYSE:T) is expanding its relationship with RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE:RNG) making AT&T Office@Hand a lead offer for UCaaS solutions as part of its broad Voice and Collaboration portfolio. Based on the RingCentral® platform, AT&T Office@Hand…
Frontier today launched Frontier Managed SD-WAN, highlighting end-customer control as an advantage. The move comes at a time when companies such as Frontier that historically were incumbent local carriers are putting more attention towards the business services market as their…
Thanks to corporations replacing legacy routers with software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), the global market for the SD-WAN technology jumped by 23% in the second quarter of the year, according to a new report from IHS Markit | Technology, now…
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