wan orchestration

As we have discussed in this series, enterprise and service providers are consolidating network services from dedicated hardware appliances into virtualized on-demand applications running on branch office software with centralized orchestration and management. Eliminating the hardware need for each…

A Day in Life of a Network Administrator “Fire drills. Box-by-box management. Sometimes, it’s about searching for a needle in a haystack,” says Nick[1], a network administrator, as he summarizes his typical workday over our coffee break. “I’m perpetually behind,” he adds. After a few sips, Nick star…