Buy One Steelhead, Get One Free: Creative Use of VRFs With Inline Deployment
Below is a very generic WAN diagram. It consists of L3 MPLS links in blue and point-to-point links in red. Not all these links actually exist (unless you’re made of money), but bear with me. My...
View ArticleInfineta and Parallelization, Part 1
1. Opinions are like… In the past 5 years I’ve participated in three proper evaluations of WAN acceleration products. Twice with Cisco’s products (an older and then a newer product) and once with...
View ArticleRiverbed Steelhead vs. Juniper WX Part I – Getting Nerdy About WAN Optimisation
After numerous false starts, begging, cajoling and a minor tantrum, I finally got myself on a Riverbed Steelhead training course. I’ve worked with Juniper WX (formally Peribit for those of you with...
View ArticleRiverbed Steelhead and Juniper WX Part II – When a Tunnel Is Not a Tunnel
In my previous post “Getting Nerdy about WAN optimisation“, I discussed some of the basics of WAN optimisation and how the Juniper WX and Riverbed Steelhead capture traffic. Now I’d like to get into...
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Fast Reroute Mechanisms
Network reliability is an important measure for deployability of sensitive applications. When a link, node or SRLG failure occurs in a routed network, there is inevitably a period of disruption to the...
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FAT or Entropy Label?
In this article we are going to see two features that improve the load-balancing in the MLPS Core. Why? In the networking when dealing with redundancy of links or paths we are facing the polarization...
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Policy-based Tunnel Selection (PBTS) on Cisco IOS-XR
Recently, I had to look after PBTS on Cisco ASR9K platform and faced some issues, here are some results about my tests. PBTS has the same goal as CBTS on Cisco IOS (Class-Based Tunnel selection) but...
View ArticleSilver Peak Launches EdgeConnect SD-WAN Product
Silver Peak gets into the SD-WAN market with Unity EdgeConnect, a new product that aims to make it easier to provision, manage, and monitor WAN connectivity for remote and branch offices. The post...
View ArticleJust How Big Is The SD-WAN Market? And Should We Care?
Incumbents and startups alike are rushing into the SD-WAN market. So how much of an opportunity is there? So far, the data points aren't very good. And maybe they don't matter anyway. The post Just How...
View ArticleSD-WAN Vendor Roundup
The SD-WAN vendor scrum grows; an increasing number of companies are contending for a place in your WAN traffic patterns. Here’s a list of the companies (some of whom are Packet Pushers sponsors) I've...
View ArticleRoute Optimization And SD-WAN: A Comparison
This post examines the pros and cons of Route Optimization and SD-WAN as options to manage performance across multiple network paths and providers. The post Route Optimization And SD-WAN: A Comparison...
View ArticleIs Cisco Hedging On SD-WAN With VeloCloud Investment?
Cisco, whose IWAN product is competing in the hotly contested SD-WAN market, hedges its bet with an investment in SD-WAN startup VeloCloud. The post Is Cisco Hedging On SD-WAN With VeloCloud...
View ArticleRiverbed Buys Ocedo To Sell SD-WAN Products Sooner
Riverbed is buying the German startup Ocedo, which makes hybrid WAN gateways, to get an SD-WAN product to market this March. Riverbed will also release internally developed SD-WAN appliances later this...
View ArticleBuy One Steelhead, Get One Free: Creative Use Of VRFs With Inline Deployment
Below is a very generic WAN diagram. It consists of L3 MPLS links in blue and point-to-point links in red. Not all these links actually exist (unless you’re made of money), but bear with me. My...
View ArticleInfineta and Parallelization, Part 1
1. Opinions are like… In the past 5 years I’ve participated in three proper evaluations of WAN acceleration products. Twice with Cisco’s products (an older and then a newer product) and once with...
View ArticleRiverbed Steelhead vs. Juniper WX Part I – Getting Nerdy about WAN Optimisation
After numerous false starts, begging, cajoling and a minor tantrum, I finally got myself on a Riverbed Steelhead training course. I’ve worked with Juniper WX (formally Peribit for those of you with...
View ArticleRiverbed Steelhead and Juniper WX Part II – When a tunnel is not a tunnel
In my previous post “Getting Nerdy about WAN optimisation“, I discussed some of the basics of WAN optimisation and how the Juniper WX and Riverbed Steelhead capture traffic. Now I’d like to get into...
View ArticleFast Reroute Mechanisms
Network reliability is an important measure for deployability of sensitive applications. When a link, node or SRLG failure occurs in a routed network, there is inevitably a period of disruption to the...
View ArticleFAT or Entropy Label?
In this article we are going to see two features that improve the load-balancing in the MLPS Core. Why? In the networking when dealing with redundancy of links or paths we are facing the polarization...
View ArticlePolicy-based Tunnel Selection (PBTS) on Cisco IOS-XR
Recently, I had to look after PBTS on Cisco ASR9K platform and faced some issues, here are some results about my tests. PBTS has the same goal as CBTS on Cisco IOS (Class-Based Tunnel selection) but...
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