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Where No (Enterprise) WAN Has Gone Before

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Enterprise WAN in 2023 Enterprise networking in 2023 is very much the same. I recently had the privilege of attending the WAN and AWS Summits in London. Not many years ago, all my WAN projects were IPsec tunnels to a headend, dual hub DMVPN designs, coordinating MPLS handoffs from last mile providers, etc. User to the cloud.

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NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 1 of 2

Kentik

Consider SD-WAN as another example of DoH causing problems. The SD-WAN controller grants permission to connections based on the top-level domain (e.g., If Google has their druthers, a lot of SD-WAN vendors are going to be in a tough spot and will have to figure out another way to enforce policy. facebook.com) being visited.

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Preparing for the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Endgame

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Ensuring application and network performance looms as a critical concern in environments where a new generation of IT software and computing infrastructure spans multiple geographically distributed data centers and a mix of public and private networks, including SD-WAN overlays. But in whose network?

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Industry 4.0: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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This series of blog posts will examine many aspects of ensuring application performance in cloud-scale enterprise WANs utilizing a hybrid of public and private networks. A prime example is the cloud-scale, data-intensive, cognitive computing infrastructure that will support Industry 4.0 applications. An Industry 4.0

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How to Monitor Traffic Through Transit Gateways

Kentik

For AWS cloud networks, the Transit Gateway provides a way to route traffic to and from VPCs, regions, VPNs, Direct Connect, SD-WANs, etc. data centers, offices, branches, etc.). Entry point for on-premises SD-WAN connections. Interconnection of multiple VPCs in an any-to-any hub-and-spoke design.

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Network Insight is Essential for Communications Service Consumers

Kentik

If you are an enterprise customer who buys Internet/MPLS circuits, with “My Kentik”, you can now view your WAN traffic utilization and understand which departments, WAN sites, and data centers are driving network utilization. You can also use this data to make a more cost-optimized plan for network changes and expansion.

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Digital Transformation Starts With Managing Digital Disruption

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Many large businesses already have DevOps teams deploying new microservices-based applications in public cloud infrastructure. For more than two decades, large-scale data centers and private WANs have been the backbone of business operations.

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