Some network vendors have been positioning SD WAN vs. MPLS as the ultimate solution to any network issue. They’re selling SD WAN, or software-defined wide area network, as a revolutionary box that ...

I'd like to use EIGRP or OSPF on the DMVPN, but I'd like the DMVPN to serve as a backup for our existing MPLS network which is using BGP. I've thought about creating a second DMVPN over the MPLS and ...

Traditional WAN designs are expensive, complex, and lack the agility and performance for modern cloud-based or bandwidth-intensive applications. For this reason, geographically distributed enterprises ...

If you have found it impractical or cost-prohibitive to learn and implement Border Gateway Protocol in order to use an Multi-protocol Label Switching-based IP VPN service, you’re gaining some options.

So, BGP removes the default. This change propagates through BGP to the MPLS providers. The carrier’s MPLS backbone picks a default route from another hub site, reconverges, and Internet traffic flows ...

Businesses today thrive on the constant availability of their IT infrastructure. Any disruption in network connectivity can grind productivity to a halt, interrupt customer or partner interactions, ...

Reducing MPLS costs will remain an important reason to deploy SD-WANs, but the networking industry now views SD-WAN as vital to government digital transformation. Steve Zurier is a freelance ...

The noise in the Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN) marketplace has reached pandemonium levels, as a wide range of vendors seek to disrupt the hegemony of Cisco Systems in the networking ...

Solution providers touting SD-WAN as simply a cheaper alternative to costly MPLS connections will be missing the boat, according to the sectors leading vendors. There's no arguing that one of SD-WAN's ...

I have two WAN routers, each connected to a separate ISP. I'm advertising 200.200.200.0/24 over BGP to both. My AS is 200200. Both of these WAN routers are connected to a switch fabric with my LAN ...