Competition generally ends up being good for the consumer. It keeps prices down and forces innovation as vendors compete for market share. A great example of this has been the explosion of vendors and features in the SD-WAN market—and from my perspective, one of the best things to come out of this has been the visibility offered from the enhanced metadata exports of the key players.
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Support criteria for SD-WAN vendors
As OEMs continue to invest in WAN optimization, what differentiates vendors’ capabilities so that enterprises seek to scale their infrastructure? In this blog, we’ve created a matrix defining functionalities that help enterprises save money, manage their application performance, and secure their network. The matrix displays the strengths and benefits of each SD-WAN vendor and how they can evolve their WAN ecosystem.
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I’ve had the opportunity to work alongside two completed VeloCloud deployments over the past 6 months. This blog covers what I’ve learned about the setup and prerequisites within VMware’s VeloCloud interface and Plixer’s Scrutinizer interface for metadata/IPFIX analysis via flow collection. Once setup is complete, I will highlight how Plixer’s Scrutinizer platform uses that data to demystify the process of bandwidth allocation for carrier and edge selection.
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