Browsing posts tagged with: WAN
Update Your WAN for the IPv6 Transition
August 17, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
No one would blame you if you can’t muster up much enthusiasm for IPv6. After all, IPv6 has been “the future” of internet protocols since its inception in 1998, without much evidence it’s happening. Even though you’ve been reading about the impending downfall of IPv4 since 2007, here we are in 2017 watching adoption just…Continue reading
Solve Your Last-Mile WAN Challenges
August 1, 2017 by Alec Pinkham
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Today, there is a lot of effort toward speeding up cloud-hosted app performance through the use of solutions like SD-WAN, but not enough attention afforded to the so-called last mile of these connections. This last mile is the final network step that gets data coming into a particular office to the user requesting that data.…Continue reading
6 Tips for Better SD-WAN Adoption
July 25, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
Emerging technologies are making it easier for IT teams to manage the remote offices under their control. SD-WAN deployment is growing quickly, and so are remote locations, which are increasingly a part of many distributed businesses in a whole variety of industries. At its simplest, SD-WAN pairs multiple existing networks and routes their traffic depending…Continue reading
Use Caution When Considering Managed SD-WAN Services
July 20, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Whether you’re just starting to learn the basics or you’re researching more specific benefits, you can’t go far without seeing stories about SD-WAN technology. The market for SD-WAN solutions is set to explode and IT publishers are feeding the hype. Sometimes, you might just want to sit back and ignore the hype. You have plenty…Continue reading
SD-WAN or WAN Optimization? Why This Question Doesn’t Cut It
July 17, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Have you joined the rising crowd of IT pros claiming WAN optimization is dead in recent years? It’s the same story with all types of technology at this point. You spend 10 or 20 years relying on yesterday’s innovation, and as soon as something new comes along, the industry is ready to move on. For…Continue reading
SD-WAN Won’t Push MPLS Out
June 30, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
It may have seemed for a moment there that MPLS was on its way out as SD-WAN came onto the scene and businesses with remote locations used more public internet. That’s probably not the case, though. A recent Nemertes Research survey found that about 21% of organizations are deploying some kind of SD-WAN technology. Notably,…Continue reading
Avoid Cloud Disasters, Embrace the SLA
April 21, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Networking Technology
Talk of IT disasters can spark equal amounts of fear of them happening to us, and gratitude that the big one hasn’t happened to us yet. Network World offers some tips on what not to do when migrating to the cloud to avoid disasters—or, at the very least, grumbling users. They recommend splitting apps into…Continue reading
An IT Nightmare – A true story from the IT trenches
December 11, 2013 by Jason Hislop
Eight-alarm fire guts South Boston building Firefighters battled an early morning blaze on Summer Street in Boston, just two doors down from AppNeta’s Office. The blaze was discovered around 4:29 a.m., according to the Boston Fire department’s official Twitter account.
A T1 Isn’t What It Used To Be: Why Remote Site Bandwidth Affects Application Performance
February 4, 2013 by Christine Cignoli
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
This past summer, I wrote about T1s and three best practices for WAN Performance. As I mentioned in that post, T1-class WAN services are a popular way to connect branch offices to corporate data centers and the Internet for voice and other application services. While the 1.54Mbps definition of a T1 hasn’t changed over time, it’s now…Continue reading
How was yesterday’s Olympics video content streaming on your WAN?
July 29, 2012 by Team AppNeta
We averaged 3Mbps throughout the day from YouTube, for a total of 14GB. It would have maxed out our 3Mbps bonded T1 service at the old office, but our Comcast business connection held up well, even as traffic peaked at over 12Mbps in the early morning hours.