Just what the market needed, another WAN product. Today, there are 30+ vendors providing SD-WAN solutions. Some are well-funded startups like CloudGenix, while others merely point products from the giants like Cisco and VMWare. Within this group, there are differences
Cisco has long made a point of acquiring subsidiaries to extend its specializations into specific tech markets, including in recent years, energy management, machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cybersecurity. In so doing, the multinational tech conglomerate is
Verizon Enterprise Solutions with Viptela Verizon Enterprise Solutions has launched Virtual Network Services, a new SDN and NFV service for enterprise clients, in collaboration with Viptela, which provides control cloud network components such as SDN-WAN controllers. The new network-as-a-service is
Traditional hardware and software pairings are both expensive and may severely limit programmer’s capabilities to manage traffic, safety, and other network features. The disruptive force in network hardware and software is the software-defined network (SDN). SDNs allow companies to independently
Is Viptela the next Palo Alto and Arista Networks The word on the street is “Viptela is the hottest SD-WAN startup in the world”. They are winning large enterprise accounts left and right, including beating Cisco in the Gap account,
The SD-WAN niche is exploding, as a ton of startups enter the market with their own flavor of services. It some respects, its similar to the disruptions occurring in the CDN market, as startups such as Twin Prime push the
Pluribus Networks just landed $50M in Series D, raising its total funding to $92.8M, which helped them leapfrog Cumulus Networks in total funding raised. Pluribus Network is used by CloudFlare in their CDN infrastructure. Going back in time to 2007,
