It's clear the WAN optimization market is no longer a niche play. According to Gartner, WAN optimization is expected to grow from the $700 million market it was in 2006 to a $1.9 billion market in ...

Key trends include AI-based optimization, hybrid deployments, and quantum-safe technologies. Asia-Pacific is poised for the ...

I love it when a product’s best use case emerges as an unintended consequence of past efforts, or from a “happy accident.” In the case of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) emerging as a ...

Wide area networks (WANs) have been around for half a century. WAN technology was originally developed to connect geographically dispersed areas over considerable distances, allowing businesses to ...

Wide-area networks are usually bandwidth constrained, creating application bottlenecks. Further, round-trip delay and packet loss can degrade performance and cause instability that cannot be ...

In a few years, nearly three quarters of network operators will use generative AI for SD-WAN management, according to a new report from research firm Gartner. That is a strategic planning assumption ...

In the past few newsletters, we described in considerable detail the mechanisms that are in place in TCP to ensure efficient transport of information. In particular, we concentrated on the ability of ...