Reinventing the WAN

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Network World WAN Alert Apr 19, 2016 Reinventing the WAN While some organizations continue to make use of WAN services such as Frame Relay and ATM, the use of those services is quickly diminishing. As a result, we are rapidly approaching a time when IT organizations will have only two WAN services to choose from: MPLS and the Internet. Given that trend, a key question facing network organizations is how to best design a branch office WAN using just those two services. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Network woes? 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The cloud is coming to the rescue Nyansa, based in Silicon Valley, emerged from stealth mode on Monday with Voyance, a cloud-based SaaS (software-as-a-service) offering that analyzes inputs from wired and wireless LANs to gauge users' actual experiences on a network. Read More ▶ 5 must-have network tools IT pros are bullish on these five products Read More ▶ 5G wireless slowly, carefully taking shape 5G wireless is coming, but it has a lot of challenges to overcome, and we're not going to be enjoying its blazing speeds until 2020 at least. But, at cable industry group CableLabs' InformED Wireless event on Wednesday in New York, several experts helped provide new hints about the shape of the technology to come. Read More ▶ Tokyo hotel apologizes in advance of minute-long Internet disruption We all live in fear of the Internet going down, whether it be via a government kill switch or a nefarious hacking group. That might explain why this swanky hotel in Japan issued this warning... Read More ▶ Verizon to replace copper with fiber optic Internet in Boston Verizon and the city of Boston today unveiled a $300 million fiber optic cable replacement of copper cable throughout the city over the next six years. Read More ▶ Women in Computing group taps Princeton routing, SDN researcher as Athena Lecturer Jennifer Rexford, a professor of engineering and Computer Science Department chair at Princeton University, has been named the 2016-17 Athena Lecturer by the Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing in honor of her contributions to computer science. Read More ▶ AMC drops 'texting friendly' theaters idea faster than a box-office flop Mere days after the head of AMC movie theaters was quoted as saying he'd like to see his facilities become more "texting friendly," a backlash has forced the company to drop the idea. 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