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PwC 5G survey finds consumers not ready to pay

A PwC 5G survey finds service providers will have to educate consumers and build unique services if they expect potential buyers to pay more for the high-speed wireless technology.

By Antone Gonsalves • Oct. 31, 2018

How to select a CDN provider that addresses your specialized needs

Leading CDN services offer a wide range of traffic management functionality, including application load balancing, and provide a variety of network security services.

By Kevin Tolly • Oct. 31, 2018

Edge computing in IoT: Increasing network efficiency to ease traffic

Edge computing in IoT is tied to IoT's growth in a number of vertical markets due to the benefits of processing data close to the data source, which relieves network overload.

By Steve Zurier • Oct. 29, 2018

SD-WAN and SLAs: Why crafting internal SLAs is a smart move

IT teams can use SD-WAN to keep track of network performance, upping the possibility to create and enforce internal SLAs that better reflect business requirements.

By Robert Sturt • Oct. 29, 2018

Job cuts part of Nokia 5G, enterprise changes

Nokia plans to cut thousands of jobs as it doubles down on its 5G and enterprise businesses. The Nokia 5G strategy focuses on selling and developing mobile radio products.

By Antone Gonsalves • Oct. 26, 2018

Comparing content delivery offerings from 10 leading CDN providers

It may seem that all CDN services have similar functionality for optimizing traditional apps and video. But before you select a CDN, learn how the offerings compare and differ.

By Kevin Tolly • Oct. 26, 2018

Versa Networks integrates SD-WAN service with Azure Virtual WAN

In networking news, Versa Networks partners with Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN; CenturyLink launches the Managed Cisco SD-WAN service; and Aryaka expands cloud offerings with Oracle.

By Michaela Goss • Oct. 26, 2018

Be prepared for SD-WAN implementation complexities

With SD-WAN implementation burgeoning, enterprises should ensure they have the internal staff to support the technology. And it doesn't hurt to plan for deployment challenges.

By Jennifer English • Oct. 25, 2018

What is the status of VNF deployments among service providers?

Although service providers are undertaking VNF deployments in the network core, they're hard-pressed to deploy them at the network edge due to complexity and cost.

By Lee Doyle • Oct. 25, 2018

Juniper earnings downed by a lack of cloud sales

The latest Juniper earnings report shows lower-than-expected sales to cloud providers will result in a revenue decline in the current quarter. The company had expected to return to growth.

By Antone Gonsalves • Oct. 25, 2018

Comcast Business unveils Alexa integration with ActiveCore SD-WAN

Comcast Business supports Alexa integration with its ActiveCore platform, allowing customers on the go to ask Alexa how their SD-WAN sites are performing.

By Jennifer English • Oct. 24, 2018

What is a long-tail DoS threat, and how does it target web apps?

Fine-grained application monitoring can defend against a long-tail DoS threat. This new kind of vulnerability manipulates service queues within a web application.

By Amy DeCarlo • Oct. 24, 2018

The Arista 400 GbE 7060X4 takes on Cisco, Juniper

Arista has joined rivals Cisco and Juniper in the 400 GbE switching market. The company introduced this week the Arista 400 GbE 7060X4 Series for hyperscale data centers.

By Antone Gonsalves • Oct. 23, 2018

SD-WAN connectivity options hinge on latency, app performance

Users debating MPLS vs. internet for SD-WAN connectivity should take the time to extensively research latency and quality-of-service requirements in terms of application performance.

By Jennifer English • Oct. 23, 2018

VMware faces strong challengers in cloud systems management

VMware topped IDC's latest vendor ranking in the cloud systems management market. But the analyst firm said the market is too young to declare any vendor a winner.

By Antone Gonsalves • Oct. 19, 2018

How SD-WAN services could improve application metrics

In this roundup of network blogs, industry insiders dissect SD-WAN's role in application metrics, the future of 5G growth and the evolution of network automation.

By Michaela Goss • Oct. 19, 2018

Comcast gigabit service ready in 39 states

Comcast gigabit cable is now available to 58 million homes and businesses in 39 states. Comcast completed the rollout as AT&T and Verizon start launching 5G internet services.

By Antone Gonsalves • Oct. 19, 2018

Network monitoring systems best practices include centralized data

With the help of a centralized data store and modeling language, network monitoring systems can both separate and unify data collection and analysis functions.

By Russ White • Oct. 19, 2018

4 switch ASIC interfaces to drive SDN and machine learning growth

Learn how four interfaces that are designed to control switch ASICs and packet forwarding can help accelerate developments in SDN and machine learning.

By Russ White • Oct. 19, 2018

Arista CloudVision gets campus Wi-Fi management

Arista will have to do more than wrap its Mojo Wi-Fi infrastructure into the Arista CloudVision management console to catch Cisco and HPE Aruba in campus networking.

By Antone Gonsalves • Oct. 17, 2018

Cato SD-WAN adds ‘self-healing’ capabilities to product portfolio

Cato Networks hones Cato SD-WAN with 'self-healing' features designed to fight against network failures. Also, Kaloom unveils Software Defined Fabric to improve data center programmability.

By Jennifer English • Oct. 17, 2018

802.11ax standard promises tectonic shift in wireless

It's shiny, bright and new -- and, like 'Anchorman' Ron Burgundy, kind of a big deal. Here's why networking experts say high-efficiency 802.11ax Wi-Fi actually lives up to the hype.

By Alissa Irei • Oct. 16, 2018

Public cloud management tools lacking, research finds

Networking experts discuss the challenge of finding robust public cloud management tools, how to improve network resiliency and avoiding network exceptions.

By Chuck Moozakis • Oct. 16, 2018

How to get your branch network up and running

Setting up the branch office network can feel overwhelming, but you need only to ask the right questions to be able to evaluate the available technology and provider services.

By Lee Doyle • Oct. 15, 2018

Riverbed tailors SteelCentral AppResponse for the cloud

Riverbed has launched SteelCentral AppResponse Cloud. The latest version of the application monitor troubleshoots problems found in business applications running on the AWS cloud.

By Antone Gonsalves • Oct. 12, 2018