Cisco moving reputation services into network devices, 06/25/07: As Cisco closes its acquisition of communications security company IronPort, it announces plans to integrate IronPort’s Web reputation ...

One of the repercussions of WAN optimization technology is that it can hinder efforts to keep tabs on network and application performance. For example, using TCP session information to gauge ...

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 ...

Containerized software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) on white-box x86 platforms offers a higher degree of flexibility and similar performance when compared to dedicated bare-metal solutions — ...

Bruce Johnson has been in the IT industry for more than 30 years with IBM, Cisco Systems and now Cradlepoint. He is a security CISSP and has worked in security for more than 20 years. He frequently ...

AT&T’s software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) offer is now available in more than 150 countries and territories. The carrier initially launched the network-based SD-WAN, aptly named SD-WAN – ...

K–12 schools are increasingly relying on the cloud for everything from learning applications to infrastructure and networking. In a recent survey from the Consortium for School Networking, more than ...

"If you want to implement network slicing in the enterprise, SD-WAN really needs to play a role,” Cradlepoint's Camille Campbell said. NetCloud Exchange now allows organizations to create "multiple ...

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...

Common Internet File System is a remote file access protocol that forms the basis for Windows file sharing. CIFS performs poorly over high-latency WAN links because it’s chatty, meaning a large number ...

It feels like everything comes with some level of 'smart' features, but smart home or IoT (Internet of Things) devices areat the top of the list for actual usefulness. But these devices have a ...

Spoiler: there isn’t just one network definition. Learn everything you need to assess various network types, topologies, and architectures. The simple network definition: a system that links other ...