WAN Wednesdays WAN Summit
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Think you can spare 20 minutes of your week to keep up to speed with the world of WAN?
That's what WAN Wednesdays are for. Every week we'll host a quickfire podcast with a new guest each week dedicated to a different aspect of corporate network management. From security to MPLS migration, from single pane of glass to the impact of IoT - we'll cover it all, one week at a time. Guests will include network managers, analysts, solution providers, telecoms operators - anyone with a voice in where the WAN is heading.
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16: SASE (Craig Connors, VeloCloud)
Secure access service edge, or SASE as you might know it, has the potential to transform how network managers deal with their traffic - putting the cloud at the centre of the network, offering end-to-end security, and making user access policies easier to implement. We welcomed Craig Connors, CTO and VP for SD-WAN at Velocloud, now part of VMware, to discuss his organisation's take on SASE, how SD-WAN fits within SASE architectures, and what the move to remote working means for SASE implementation within enterprises.
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15: Global WAN Week (with Camela Cuison, WAN Summit)
We are taking a break in the schedule to update you on some exciting WAN Summit news.
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14: Covid and the Cloud (with Marco van den Akker)
In this week’s episode, Bill Yates welcomes cloud evangelist Marco van den Akker to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the internet and the future of cloud services.
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13: Covid-Proofing the WAN (John Isch & Laurent Perrin, Orange Business Services)
We don’t need to tell you that not much is predictable right now in the world of business – especially when it comes to enterprise networks. Each organisation, industry and country has different priorities when it comes to emerging to the other side of Covid-19. We welcome two guests from Orange Business Services – Director Connectivity Solutions John Isch and Director Application Driven Network Laurent Perrin – to discuss the impact of increased working from home, how Orange is supporting customers, and what the current situation means for enterprises and their transformation journeys.
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12: WAN Manager Survey (with Lizzy Thorne, TeleGeography)
We’ve heard from quite a few WAN managers on WAN Wednesdays, but now we’re about to hear from dozens of them in one go - thanks to the WAN Manager Survey, which is published by WAN Summit co-organisers TeleGeography. Co-author Lizzy Thorne, Research Analyst at TeleGeography, shares some previews of the findings and what they might mean for the future of the WAN.
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11: Standardisation (with Dan Pitt, MEF Forum)
SD-WAN brings great benefits to an organisation - not least the ability to scale bandwidth, sites and connections up and down when required. But for true ease of use, there needs to be some element of interoperability - and this means standardisation across the supply chain. Dan Pitt, SVP of MEF, President of Palo Alto Innovation Advisors, and veteran of the SDN/NFV movement, will join us on the podcast to discuss the progress made in SD-WAN standardisation so far, why it's so necessary, and what network managers and solutions providers can expect in the near future.