It’s Time to Act on Copper Replacement
Prior to the passing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the copper telecommunications infrastructure across the country was a monopoly held by the incumbent local exchange carriers. Upon passing the deregulatory act, local markets were opened to competition by competitive local exchange carriers (LECS) who were now able…
Why a Packet Fabric acquisition of Rstor is Good for Cloud
PacketFabric announced it acquired Rstor today in a move that should bolster both organizations to deliver fast, reliable networking of cloud traffic and infrastructure. Today, many organizations are faced with the Cloud Networking challenge of staying on-prem, going all-in on cloud resources or having…
Comprehensive WAN RFP Template
We have already covered the importance of selecting a qualified WAN consultant for your RFPs in a past post. But what about constructing a WAN RFP? For the uninitiated, it can be a daunting task filled with frustration. Luckily, we’ve done all the hard work…
Best Viptela considerations for 2023
Viptela considerations on the Cisco SDWAN platform has literally changed overnight thanks to Covid. Many organizations looked at their corporate Wide Area Network (WAN) with Cisco ISR nodes and thinking of how their new network would migrate from MPLS to Cisco Viptela. Fast-Forward, employees consuming…
Telecom Expense Management to Reduce Costs in 2023
What is Telecommunications Expense Management (TEM) TEM (Telecommunications Expense Management) is a SaaS based expense system or a human analysis process of your carrier Opex & billing. Audit, Cost Recovery, re-pricing, and bill pay are just a few options Telecom Expense Management can support organizations. 25%…
Best Megaport Options in 2022
Megaport provides on-demand private bandwidth which can scale quickly for cloud instances, colocation facilities and on-premises locations globally. They also offer customers the ability to utilize virtual cloud routers, side-stepping the traditional carrier across private and public cloud locations you have at the edge. Multi-cloud…
Choosing The Best WAN Consultant For RFPs in 2022
No matter what your endeavor, choosing the right WAN consultant for your RFP is critical to success. Adding resources that have pertinent experience, a track record of success, and in-depth knowledge of the focus topic will help your team avoid mistakes and lead you to…
What is Amazon Direct Connect And Why You Should Care
AWS Direct Connect is the onramp and offramp from AWS instances to other clouds. It provides you with various options to connect your dedicated AWS infrastructure to other PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS workgroups. Connecting to Direct Connect is simple, easy, and painless plus it can…
What is SD-WAN—Everything You Need to Know in One Spot
The business wide area network (WAN) provides private connectivity between sites in a multi-location enterprise. As you can imagine, the technology has evolved substantially over the last few decades from basic point to point private line services to meshed network topologies. SD-WAN Explained will cover…
What is AWS WAF
In just a short period within the cloud digital revolution, organizations have transitioned more web applications to AWS out of the data center than ever before. The agility to spin up workloads instantly provides a Dev & SRE team endless opportunities to share resources &…