[PODCAST] Not Your Grandma's WAN—Where Networking's Headed

There’s no doubt SD WAN is cool, but Talari Networks claims to have been doing SD WAN since before it was cool. In this episode Mode’s Doug Case and Jo McDougald speaks with Talari Co-founder and CMO Andrew Gottlieb about his firm’s history with the technology, including its origination of “fail-safe” SD WAN technology, which even in today’s exploding market remains a rarity.

Attend to learn how Mode makes your SD-WAN ideal for the most demanding of Enterprise security and compliance needs. From key management to encryption, to always-on performance backed by an MPLS SLA, Mode Core is the choice of security and compliance-conscious CIOs who need more from their investments in SD-WAN.

In this Mode Cast from the Core, JoAnne McDougald speaks with Kelly Ahuda about Versa’s vision for network infrastructure, the key big problems facing network infrastructure, and how Versa and Mode together are working to solve them. Kelly is CEO of Versa Networks and a Cisco alumnus.

In this Mode Cast from the Core, JoAnne McDougald speaks with Sushil Nalawade about Tata Communications’ view of the future of network infrastructure, particularly regarding security. Sushil Nalawade is director of solutions engineering at Tata, a company responsible for a significant portion of the entire internet’s infrastructure today.

In this Mode Cast from the Core, JoAnne McDougald speaks with Steve Garson about Mode’s SD-Core and what it has to offer SD-WAN architectures. Steve is based in Denver and consults with firms on building SD-WAN systems.

In this Mode Cast from the Core, JoAnne McDougald speaks with Doug Case about the unique aspects of Mode’s approach and technology that brought him to the company. Doug is VP of sales for Mode and is a veteran of both major Silicon Valley firms and startups.

In this Mode Cast from the Core, Joanne McDougald speaks with Eric Hanselman about how the ONUG and broader IT communities have evolved in recent years, and what the future of network infrastructure will look like. Eric is chief analyst at 451 Research and has extensive experience in a broad range of IT subject areas.

Over the last decade, we have seen the gradual movement of critical business infrastructure – compute, storage, applications, and services – to the cloud. The cloud reinvention of traditional private WAN is still incomplete. SD-WAN has delivered powerful edge control, but its potential is limited by an unpredictable Internet Core that makes it difficult to keep businesses always-on. SD-CORE extends SD-WAN edge control to the network core and marks the final stage in the cloud metamorphism of private, high-availability business WAN.

In this webinar, we will discuss 3 key points:

The value of SD-WAN Edge Control
The case for Core Control™: #1 SD-WAN Enhancement
Choosing the ideal SD-CORE: performance, security, and cost

SD-WANs bring powerful adaptive control to the branch edge. Beyond the edge, they typically rely on the Internet to deliver much of this benefit. This dependency has a significant risk: Internet backbones can introduce a level of unpredictability that complicates the job of delivering reliable WANs. In this presentation, Steve Garson of SD-WAN Experts will detail three simple steps you can take today to mitigate Internet unpredictability, or even eliminate it entirely - all while preserving the key benefits of software-defined networking: flexibility, reliability, and economy.

Key points:
1. How to select the right ISPs and why
2. How to analyze what locations need QoS for latency sensitive applications
3. Why you should use SD-CORE as part of the network design

Presenters:
Steve Garson, President of SD-WAN-Experts
Nithin Michael, Co-Founder of Mode