Feb 22, 2022
The WAN Managers Have Spoken (For Now)
We've crunched the numbers from our 2021 survey of WAN managers, and our new analysis is ready and waiting. What did we find?
We've crunched the numbers from our 2021 survey of WAN managers, and our new analysis is ready and waiting. What did we find?
One of the earliest and most persistent use cases for SD-WAN has been the ability to utilize alternative connectivity options like the internet and fixed wireless. Our WAN Manager Survey data shows that, since 2018, MPLS has been losing ground to other wireline alternatives like DIA and broadband.
We're going to talk about the cloud. More specifically, cloud outages and how to avoid them and mitigate their impacts.
There's no way we can dig into this topic without touching on multicloud strategies.
Listeners know that we've covered middle mile and NaaS on this show. We've also touched on the various companies emerging around these issues.
Today, we're getting extra perspective from one of those companies.
When TeleGeography started tracking the SD-WAN market in 2017, we found dozens of vendors offering a service they called "SD-WAN." But are all of these services created equal? What does it take for your solution to qualify as SD-WAN?
Are you like the (approximately) half of our survey respondents who have not yet adopted SD-WAN? Or perhaps you're in the midst of deployment and want to know what to look out for. Or maybe you're working out whether or not to keep MPLS?
Today we're living on the edge! Whether we're talking security and SASE, NaaS, or cloud computing—or many other topics, honestly—edge networks and edge computing are likely to make it into the conversation.
It's another case study episode of the podcast. Today, we welcome Ian Calderbank, Enterprise Network Architect at PageGroup, to the hot seat.
