Jim participated in a recent Network World online chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration. The way these chats work is that for an hour Network World readers type ...

The group released the draft of its SD-WAN service definition standard, with the official publication of the standard expected in July following board approval.

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 ...

Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WANs) is arguably the hottest topic in the software-centric enterprise networking transformation, but recent research shows the industry is still struggling ...

Software that speeds up transmission in a wide area network. Various techniques are used including compression and the application of quality of service (QoS) parameters to packets. If an application ...

A wide area network (WAN) that uses both public and private transports. See hybrid network and SD-WAN. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.