May 9, 2019
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an internet routing protocol built 20 years ago. It is used to exchange route reachability of one party with another party. For example, let’s say there is an enterprise which has reachability in Bangalore and has a local ISP. Now the traffic is destined to somewhere...
May 7, 2019
SNMP is a widely used protocol in Network Management and network monitoring. SNMP provides granular visibility to data of variables managed and organized in MIB (Management Information Base). Three significant versions of SNMP have been developed and deployed. SNMPv1 is the original version of the protocol. More recent versions, SNMPv2c...
May 2, 2019
To put simply, load balancing means to distribute workloads (data) intelligently between different computing services to improve connectivity – Reliability, redundancy and network performance. Load balancers are like traffic police. They manage traffic between enterprise servers. Load balancers are crucial today to manage evolving traffic patterns ensuring there’s no overload...
April 30, 2019
Network security remains a prime concern as enterprises helm forward towards digital. 95% of CIOs expect cybersecurity threats to increase and impact their enterprise. Are enterprises doing enough to mitigate new age network security threats? Traditionally, WAN and network security was considered two different aspects. IT networking teams focused...
April 25, 2019
Enterprises relying on MPLS can significantly reduce networking cost by implementing software defined wide are networks. In addition to cost saving, SD-WAN enables automation, intelligence and centralized management which makes enterprise networks cloud ready. Weighing all these factors into consideration, SD-WAN cost savings in enterprises can surge higher than 60%. ...
April 23, 2019
According to a study, enterprises that have converted more than 90% of their sites to SD-WAN are realizing significant improvements: 20% reduction in staffing required for the WAN, and 33% reduction in the amount of time WAN staff spend on troubleshooting. They are likewise seeing a 69% reduction in the...
April 18, 2019
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you...
April 16, 2019
In our last blog, Network Segmentation: Segregating Traffic in the dying age of Perimeter, we discussed the importance of network segmentation at a granular level using modern era segmenting solution which can allow each segment to scale without compromising on enterprise network security. Here we discuss how intent based segmentation can...
April 11, 2019
As traditional perimeter defences become easy to crack automated and policy based network segmentation solves two biggest challenges for CIOs - security and complexity. Enterprise Networks are subjected to meet sudden business changes and requirements. In doing so, networks become vulnerable. In worst cases, it turns out to be the...