Palo Alto Networks who recently acquired SD-WAN provider GloudGenix announced 20% year over year growth for their Fiscal Q3 coming in at $869.4 million. Palo Alto Networks is nearing the $1billion quarterly threshold on strong product performance and seizing the remote work trends driven by COVID-19. “The last month of this quarter saw the majority […]
Windstream started flexing their Kinetic brand into the SMB in late 2017. Today they announced that they are extending SD-WAN services to that same market powered by our top ranked provider VeloCloud (VMware). Their use-cases are compelling. As SD-WAN becomes more prevalent, SD-WAN solutions allow SMBs like Bar owners to control when and how their […]
Can GTT get out of their own way and turn the corner. They have expanded Silver Peak SD-WAN to the Americas
Fortinet announced earnings growth with year over year gains of 30%. This beat caused Fortinet stock to rise nearly 7%. Fortinet chairman was quoted as saying “Our proprietary FortiASIC security processing unit can deliver 10 times the VPN throughput capacity of comparable competitor solutions to support teleworkers,” Fortinet Chief Executive Ken Xie said in a […]
TL:DR SD-WAN deployments for high value remote workers require: Security Access to Cloud and Remote applications Reliability and Bandwidth SD-WAN is incredibly easy to deploy. The issue with SD-WAN for the home offices is that it’s still incredibly complex and may be cost prohibitive for all employees. The home office has a variety of challenges […]
AT&T CEO Stephenson Out Stevenson took over in 2007 and drove significant growth, but has encountered many challenges as digital transformation initiatives have increased.. “It has been a chaotic few weeks for all of us and the COVID pandemic had a significant impact to our first quarter,” Stephenson said during an earnings call. The COVID-19 […]
Juniper Networks is partnering with T-systems (Subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom) to deliver SD-WAN to its Enterprise Customers. T-systems will focus on digital transformation and modernization of enterpise networkign with the Secure, managed Juniper platform. Their goal is to deliver multicloud and standardized managed SD-WAN services. Called Smart SD-WAN, the cornerstone product will be a primary […]
Nuage Networks, the SD-WAN provider from Nokia (hint: mobility) has partnered with Asavie to provide what they’re touting as SD-WAN 2.0. This partnership allows Nuage to leverage mobile technology to easily manage remote devices, specifically Internet of Things (IoT). The goal of this partnership is to remove the need for VPN when connecting mobile devices […]
SD-WAN revenue reached almost $640 Million for the fourth quarter of 2019, a 75% increase ($365m over the same period in 2018). The main driver for the growth appears to be Service Providers embracing the fact that they are no longer carriers allowing them to bundle various other services including Unified Communications (UCaaS) and managed […]
Fortinet, long considered to be a dark horse in the SD-WAN arena is combining their Next-Gen Firewall Security, Routing, and Open Fabric Ecosystem to scale through their Managed Service Providers. Momentum for SD-WAN and SD-WAN like technologies has become more than a swell. As stated yesterday, AT&T has seen 700% growth with their “SD-WAN” like […]