Industry association MEF has completed what it claims to be the first global standard defining a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), along with its service attributes. Specifically, the ...

Industry association MEF today released the draft of its SD-WAN service definition standard, which describes the requirements for an application-aware over-the-top WAN connectivity service. This ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. State governments are looking to minimize overhead costs, enhance ...

The partnership is focused on ensuring that SD-WAN vendors are developing products that meet the needs of both enterprises and the service providers that serve them. “ONUG is eager to help define MEF ...

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 ...

Software-defined WAN offers a lot of potential benefits including price, efficiency, and performance, but it’s not right for all sites. This is an important question, with a simple answer: it depends.

Over the last two years, SD-WANs have been the hottest topic in networking. In that timeframe, SD-WAN solutions have evolved dramatically with many vendors recently implementing new, highly robust ...