Platform Specialty Products Corporation Deploys Aryaka’s Global SD-WAN in 190 Sites in Four Months

AryakaA , the leading global SD-WAN provider, announced today that Platform Specialty Products Corp., a global, diversified producer of high technology specialty chemical products, has successfully deployed Aryaka’s global SD-WAN solution to 190 sites worldwide in four months. Platform Specialty Products, which is the product of a six-company merger, needed a solution that would allow for a quick and easy consolidation of disparate networks and a reliable connection to remote locales.

Synology RT2600ac

Synology’s RT2600ac is an advanced wireless router that offers many advantages vs. Apple’s stale AirPort product, while still providing a user-friendly iOS app for configuration and management. A long list of features includes a built-in VPN server, dual WAN support with failover and load balancing, content filtering and bandwidth controls, traffic reporting , a print server, “smart” coordination of 2.4 and 5GHz bands, multiple security features, NAS/cloud services with attached storage, Time Machine support, a DLNA/UPnP media server, and some potent hardware , with USB 3 and USB 2 ports, on top of multiple Gigabit networking ports and an SD card slot, and even support for 3G/4G cellular dongles.

Telstra invests in SD-WAN vendor

Telstra has established what it has described as a strategic partnership with US SD-WAN company VeloCloud Networks, with the telco’s VC arm, Telstra Ventures, participating in its latest funding round. “We expect SDN will continue to transform enterprise networking around the world and VeloCloud SD-WAN can help companies achieve more agile and responsive networks as well as reduce costs,” Telstra Ventures managing director, Mark Sherman, said in a statement.

Citrix and Rehab Management Help Australians Get Back to Work

With 210 employees working across 56 offices and in the field, Rehab Management needed a solution to resolve connectivity issues impacting the quality of services provided by its regional and remote offices. The organization also wanted to boost employee morale and productivity by enabling them to work regardless of location and device.

VeloCloud Raises $35M to Meet Accelerating Global Demand for Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN

Sanjay Uppal is CEO and Co-founder of VeloCloud, which has closed a $35 million Series D round of funding, led by Hermes Growth Partners, to expand business, capacity and operations as the company accelerates new SD-WAN product development, supports larger customer rollouts, and dramatically increases sales and marketing in theaters worldwide. )–VeloClouda Networks, Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WANa company , today announced that it has closed a $35 million Series D round of funding, led by Hermes Growth Partners.

Viptela Named to CRN Data Center 100 List for 2017

Each year, CRN recognizes technology suppliers that excel at powering, supporting and protecting today’s complex and demanding data centers. “The migration to the Cloud, Big Data and IoT has pushed traditional data center networks to their limits in terms of performance, security and scalability.

Telefonica-Sigfox deal is a big win for diverse IoT networks

The global partnership announced Wednesday between Telefonica and IoT specialist Sigfox could ensure the latter’s long-term success while accelerating the overall growth of LPWANs . Telefonica said it will integrate Sigfox’s energy-sipping, low-data-rate radios into millions of devices used for things like smart metering and asset tracking.

Verizon and Ericsson collaborate on global virtual network services

New Delhi, , Feb. 22 : Verizon Enterprise Solutions has partnered with Ericsson to provide enabling technologies for Verizon Virtualised Managed Network Services offerings that will be rolled out globally. The self-service offerings give enterprises flexibility to dynamically combine virtualised features from a catalog of offerings, such as security packages, WAN optimisation and data center load balancing.

networking-bagpipe 6.0.0

They have been heavily used in IP/MPLS WAN backbones since the early 2000’s. creating reachability between Neutron ports and BGP VPNs outside the cloud datacenter leveraging these BGP VPNs in Neutron’s backend, to benefit from the flexibility, robustness and scalability of the underlying technology BaGPipe proposal is to address these two use cases by implementing this protocol stack – both the BGP routing protocol extensions and the dataplane encapsulation – in compute nodes or possibly ToR switches, and articulating it with Neutron thanks to drivers and plugins.

The SD-WAN Market to Reach $9,066.2 Million in 2021 – Propelled by…

The SD-WAN Market to Reach $9,066.2 Million in 2021 – Propelled by Advent of IoT & Proliferation of Massive Amount of Data through Connected Devices – Research and Markets The top 10 Software-Defined Everything and networking technologies market is expected to grow at a significant rate during the forecast period. The growth of this market is propelled by the advent of Internet of Things & proliferation of massive amount of data through connected devices, increasing focus on competitive insights, need for increased business agility & scalability, and growing volume & variety of business data across industry verticals.

ECI Bolsters Its LightSEC Cybersecurity Solution

ECI, a global provider of ELASTIC Network solutions for service providers, critical infrastructures and data center operators, announced today the enhancement of its award winning LightSEC cyber security solution. Beyond the consolidation of security and connectivity, this solution will enable service providers to leverage their infrastructure to deliver managed security services to their customers for additional revenue streams.

Allot Secure Service Gateway Gains Momentum With Customers in its First Quarter of Availability

Allot Communications Ltd. , a leading provider of security and monetization solutions that enable service providers and enterprises to protect and personalize the digital experience, revealed that Allot Secure Service Gateway has quickly achieved popularity in the enterprise market in its first quarter of availability. Having only launched the product last October, Allot has already secured orders from customers across a range of different verticals, including Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance and Education in the Allot Secure Service Gateway is designed to meet organizations’ need for a comprehensive solution that provides visibility and control for heterogeneous environments and networks extending from the datacenter to the WAN.

Mitani Chooses VeloCloud SD-WAN to Power …

VeloClouda Networks Inc. , the Cloud-Delivered SD-WANa company , today announced that Mitani Sangyo Co. Ltd. , a leading provider of information technology services in Japan, has chosen VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN technology to power Mitani’s Unified Communications needs.

FS: Draytek Vigor 2925n UFB router

I used it for 200MB UFB, but it has gigabit WAN ports, so it should be able to do gigabit fibre too . Nothing wrong with it, I just decided to replace it with a NUC running FreeBSD as my home router/firewall/DHCP/DNS/Plex server instead.

Setting up a network with two routers HG659 and RT-AC66U

What I want to do is set up the RT-AC66U as my wifi network and use the HG659 as a modem to connect the RT to the internet. The reasons for doing this is that I want to connect to a VPN using Openvpn on the RT, which the HG cant do… not to mention how the RT gets much better wifi speeds and range.

BT readies a global dynamic WAN

Global WAN powerhouse BT is out to turn its sprawling network into dynamic beast that can accommodate today’s rapidly evolving needs. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix talked about the plans with Keith Langridge, Vice President of Network Services at BT Global Services, and Sunil Khandekar, Founder and CEO of Nuage Networks from Nokia, a critical new supplier that will enable some of the change.

VeloCloud Wins Product of the Year

VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN Named a 2016 SDN Product of the Year Award Winner — VeloCloud Honored for Innovative Use of SDN Technology to Support Network Agility, Scalability and Simplified Branch Implementations while Delivering Superior Access to Services MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 26, 2017 — VeloClouda Networks, Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WANa company, today announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN as a 2016 SDN Product of the Year Award winner.

CloudGenix Wraps Stellar Year and Begins 2017 with Significant Customer and Partner Momentum

CloudGenix , Inc., the software-defined wide-area network leader, today announced over 10X year-over-year revenue growth in 2016, large-scale deployments on six continents across a range of verticals, and the largest number of Cisco gold partners actively working with any SDWAN startup. With nearly a half-trillion dollars combined market cap of companies using the CloudGenix Instant-On Networks , the company is well-positioned for another successful year as the leader in the SD-WAN market.

Cisco’s Cloud Scale Networking: Automation, Virtualization & Simplification

Cisco’s Conrad Clemson, recently promoted to head up the company’s Service Provider Apps & Platforms developments, talks to Light Reading’s Founder and CEO Steve Saunders about how he’s bringing cloud video, mobile and virtualization together to empower network operators. Six different communications service providers join to debate their visions of the future CSP, following a landmark presentation from AT&T on its massive virtualization efforts and a look back on where the telecom industry has been and where it’s going from two industry veterans.

How to take control of BYOD bandwidth use

The trend for increasing numbers of employees and customers bringing their own devices into a workplace can seriously impair a businesses’ access to the Internet. The problem is that as more mobile devices connect to the network, a business can quickly discover that its cloud-based applications, payments systems, accounting, stock control, customer relationship management and business applications have become hopelessly sluggish.

Di Palma to Direct BroadSoft’s Sales Operations

BroadSoft, Inc. , a global unified communications as a service leader, today announced that it has appointed Dino Di Palma as Chief Revenue Officer. In this newly created position, Dino will lead the BroadSoft global sales organization and continue to drive revenue growth, with the new, expanded BroadSoft Business portfolio and the “Powered by BroadSoft” branding and partner initiatives.

Singtel Wins 2016 World Communication Award using Viptela SD-WAN

Viptela , the Software-Defined WAN company, today announced that its partner Singapore Telecommunications Limited won the prestigious 2016 World Communication Award. The Singtel ConnectPlus SD-WAN, powered by the Viptela Secure Extensible Network platform, was recognized with the annual award, which is widely considered “the blue chip mark of success in the global telecom industry”.

Symantec launches ‘secure’ Norton Core home router for the IoT world, with a subscription

Fuelled by emerging threats and their ability to monetize protection from them, Symantec’s consumer division Norton has announced a new wireless router that it hopes will be effective in protecting the new wave of IoT devices that are either on the market now or headed for it shortly. Priced at an introductory $199.99 , the Norton Core is visually startling for a router; loosely resembling a geodesic dome – think Epcot Centre – it comes in either Titanium Gold or Granite Grey, and has all of the latest technologies you would expect from a modern router.

Norton Core anti-malware router promises IoT for a subscription fee

Smarter routers with swifter response to malware and IoT exploits are a growing segment now, and Norton is wading in with its own striking wireless router. The Norton Core not only looks like a miniature Spaceship Earth from Epcot, but inside the geodesic dome there’s a mixture of parental filters, real-time security scans, and automatic updates.

Cisco talks 2017 SD-WAN predictions

There certainly was a ton of hype in Software Defined-WAN arena in 2016 but to be fair there was a lot of actual deployment of technology and services as well. In December Gartner wrote that spending on SD-WAN products will rise from $129 million in 2016 to $1.24 billion in 2020.

Dark fibre vs Layer 2 WAN ?

Hello, can someone please explain the difference between a layer 2 WAN circuit and a dark fibre circuit A layer2 circuit has electronics and is normally a managed offering, so you basically have an Ethernet port at each end. A dark fibre circuit is exactly that – a piece of fibre that runs from one point to another.