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The pandemic-driven demand surge has pushed federal agencies’ IT infrastructures to their limits. But these challenges are also revealing new opportunities to move forward stronger.

Today’s federal COOP measures aren’t enough to ensure network uptime during a disaster. Here’s how IT leaders can increase resilience and agility with carrier diversity and network redundancy.

Today’s enterprise networks exist to support the business. Whether the imperative is driving a superior customer experience, enabling business growth through acquisition or any other number of goals, the business looks to the network (and...

The wide area network (WAN) is the key determinant of application performance, user experience and other key IT success measures. According to Forbes, 83% of workloads will run in the cloud by the end of...

Digital applications have become a critical component of a business’s image and reputation. As more customers interact with online systems, application outages or impairments are more than just a black eye—missed opportunities, abandoned shopping carts...

Cloud-based and mobile apps put traditional networks to the test by making last mile connectivity a mission-critical component. And, with 83% of enterprise workloads expected to run in the cloud by next year1, the need...

Successfully completing any project of significance requires thoughtful planning and execution. In most cases, the execution phase will be achieved more efficiently and cost-effectively when more time is invested in the planning phase. Sooner or...

I enjoy my job immensely. Having the responsibility to evaluate new technologies for introduction into our network at a time when the pace of change is unprecedented and only accelerating, ensures I’m constantly exposed to...

For wide area networks (WANs), viable options include IP-VPN, MPLS VPN, carrier switched Ethernet and SD-WAN. While each of these technologies supports baseline data connectivity between multiple locations, there are key requirements for each that...

Software defined WAN (SD-WAN) is fast becoming the new standard in wide-area networking, with rapid adoption driven by improved flexibility/functionality, accompanied by cost reduction and simplified management. However, SD-WAN is far from all or nothing....