Few areas of the enterprise are as ripe for change as the wide area network. And there are plenty of technologies – from hybrid WAN services and software defined WANS to better management tools — ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) and the Wide Area Network (WAN) are both types of data networks. Their main difference is in scale, with LANs intended for communication within a room or building and WANs ...

Context is everything. In our next column, we’ll resume the discussion of the details behind the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture. Here, with the recent Open Networking Summit, and ...

SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) has emerged as a revolutionary technology in the ever-evolving enterprise networking landscape. By enhancing network agility and optimizing performance, ...

The largest automotive retailer in the U.S. had a problem. The IT network it was operating for its roughly 350 locations across 18 states was outdated and inflexible. “We had routers at every store,” ...

While it has been a mainstay in the private sector for many years, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology is still slowly finding its way into the federal government. However, the ...

While the return-to-office (RTO) directive is often framed as an HR and facilities challenge, its impact on the digital ...

As regular readers may recall, Comcast is my broadband Internet (WAN) service provider. And regular readers may also recall that MoCA is one of the LAN technologies in current use in my home ...

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As more and more data moves across WANs and into the cloud, making the most of your WAN connections is key Last week, I explained the growing importance of understanding TCP basics — specifically, TCP ...