arista Why Arista + Ansible Is A Perfect Marriage For Network Automation WAN Dynamics has been spending a lot more time with Ansible when deploying and managing customer network environments. Arista is one of our closest partners so we use their gear a lot and have come to realize a few truths to automating Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS) environments with Ansible.
public cloud Connecting the Cloud: SDN, SD-WAN and Multicloud On the tail of a new report that details how SDN & SD-WAN are becoming a mainstream consideration within many organizations, we have been pondering on why SD-WAN and cloud based network solutions have struck such a chord. 2017 was an incredible year of transformation in the network industry and
arista Dual Datacenter DMZ With VXLAN, VARP, VRF & OSPF with Arista Networks Based on business needs, dual datacenter networks will evolve from an “active/standby” disaster recovery configuration that has an active primary datacenter carrying workloads and a site sitting on standby over to a “active/active” datacenter environment with workloads spread across both centers. Typically in the datacenters there will be
sd-wan SD-WAN Failover Demonstration: Yep, it's that easy! Want to see SD-WAN in action? WAN Dynamics CTO Jason Gintert presents an impromptu video showing just how incredibly seamless access failover is using VeloCloud SD-WAN. Here Jason demonstrates failover from cable Internet to 4G/LTE in the middle of a hosted IP phone call, and the call does not
qos How Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) Provides Reliable Voice and Video Services Over the Internet For as long as organizations have tried to make real-time services like voice or video work over Internet Protocol (IP) network pipes, there have been very basic requirements in order to make said services operate effectively. The first requirement for these sensitive applications was a dedicated, business class network line
arista 8 Lessons Learned - Arista Datacenter Interconnect (DCI) with VXLAN and vARP Originally written by Kevin Giusti for the WAN Dynamics site. Hosting to keep the knowledge alive! Though our name would imply we only work with wide area networks, WAN Dynamics has been working on some very interesting (and fun!) datacenter deployments as well, using primarily Arista Networks gear. First thing
sdwan Five Use Cases for SD-WAN A lot of folks I speak with about Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) are trying hard to understand how this rapidly emerging technology works and the places where it can fit with their clients or within their own network. As we acquire more experience with deployments inside many different
sd-wan Should your telecom provider manage your SD-WAN strategy? As interest in software defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) grows, many traditional telecommunications providers are jumping on the bandwagon to bundle their data and voice service offerings. I would caution those exploring their options with SD-WAN as a potential technology solution for their business to think carefully about going this
Why I left my job to co-found a managed SD-WAN services company I left my job of 13 years to found a new company. It’s the end of an era for me and it was not an easy decision to make. The reason? I believe a new technology space known as Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is one of the
isis The Service Provider IGP Question: OSPF or Integrated IS-IS? (Moved from my old blog, http://packetrancher.com, which I decided I didn’t have the time for so shuttered in 2011. This was one of the few blogs posts worth saving from it.) I had a choice to make recently in the decision of which open standards based IGP
