Before deploying SD-WAN, the company was using “a spaghetti mess” of handcrafted tunnels with combinations of Sonicwall firewalls, third party tunnels, and Cisco ASA firewalls. The result was “awful

An integrated SD-WAN security product would likely involve at least three Cisco technologies: Viptela SD-WAN, Meraki network automation, and Umbrella cloud security.

CenturyLink tracks botnets and the C2 servers they communicate with to thwart distributed denial of service attacks.

Cisco, itself, recently issued a warning about its Smart Install client, saying it was vulnerable to cyber attacks by nation-state actors.

The company is looking to support unmodified big data software in containers so data scientists can spend their time analyzing data rather than fighting hardware and drivers.

These three initiatives are all focused on virtualizing the RAN, and some of the same companies belong to all three groups. But why are there three?

The company had been white labeling an SD-WAN service from another vendor, but it found it to be too expensive and not versatile enough.

ARM is also targeting the telco central office, working with such open source groups as the Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD).

The platform integrates with public and private cloud providers, and allows DevOps teams to deploy applications in minutes.

The disaggregation of the control plane and data plane with open interfaces feels a bit like the free-wheeling days of the early internet.

The vendor says current IT-based container platforms are not robust enough. Knitter includes multiple network planes, static application IP address migration, and configurable IP resources.

The trial mainly focused on management of streaming video content, which could account for up to 80 percent of Verizon's network traffic.

Riverbed rebrands itself and launches new platform; GTT expands into Canada; resin.io adds multicontainer support.

It sits above domain controllers from packet and transport vendors.

Aryaka's Passport service integrates security from Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and Radware.

The France-based provider enhanced its WAN capabilities with Versa's Cloud IP platform.

The expansion is in response to growing market demand for network intelligence.

This is in addition to TPx's current VeloCloud-based platform.

Several carriers including Nokia, BT, and Deutsche Telekom will trial the technologies.

EOLO built a custom SDN routing appliance for deployment at radio towers.

More than half of all attacks resulted in financial damages of more than $500,000.

The updates target expected 5G use cases and network slicing.

The startup plans to launch its decentralized cloud this year.

It solved issues from connecting CallTower's services to the public Internet.