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IP Wave: Understanding the Network is the Key to Guaranteed Service Delivery - Part 3 in the IP Wave Series

There’s little doubt that a lot has changed when it comes to network design, specification and build. The seemingly simple goal of carrying traffic from point A to point B might remain, but these days it comes with a long list of options and alternatives to cover a wide range of network architectures, content providers and service types, all of which might have different requirements for bandwidth, latency, and availability.

Enabling Service Providers to Rapidly Create and Deliver Innovative New Services through Automation, Optimization and Openness: Part 2 in the IP Wave Series

I am excited about the upcoming Optical Fiber & Communications (OFC 2022) Conference in San Diego for several reasons. Not only will it be the first in-person conference that I have attended in more than two years due to the pandemic, but the thing that I am most excited about is the fact that Ribbon will be showcasing our new IP Wave offering at the show.

Use Your Load Balancer to Monitor Application Health

HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise collect a vast amount of information about the health of your applications being load balanced. That data, which uses the Prometheus text-based format for metrics, is published to a web page hosted by the load balancer, and since many application performance monitoring (APM) tools can integrate with Prometheus, it’s likely that you can visualize the data using the APM software you already have.

Supporting, Extending, and Protecting Virtual Environments

Virtualization remains the key technology of the data center. It's also been the foundational technology that allowed cloud to proliferate. In modern environments, to get the most out of cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud, organizations need to stay on top of the latest developments in virtualization. Watch this On-Demand event to learn about the latest technologies in virtualization and virtualization-adjacent areas, like containers, software-defined storage, software-defined networking, the software-defined data center, and more!

Get to Know WhatsUp Gold Free Edition

We sympathize with the IT teams that keep their networks running – we really do. We understand it’s a thankless job where they’re ignored if everything’s working and blamed when everything’s not. That’s why we’ve tried to make our network infrastructure and application experience (AX) products as simple and intuitive as possible.

Insider Risk: The Call is Coming from Inside the House

In IT, we tend to think of threats as external. Hackers, scammers, bots, and DDoS attacks are all external in origin. But surprisingly, insider risk is often one of the biggest network security challenges facing IT. As they say, sometimes it’s the ones closest to you that can hurt you the most.

What a delayed SD-WAN or SASE decision could cost you

Winners make good decisions fast, execute them quickly, and see higher growth rates and/or overall returns from their decisions. That’s according to a McKinsey study, ‘Decision-Making In The Age Of Urgency’. But the same study also pointed out that ineffective decision-making has significant implications for company productivity today. On average, survey respondents said they spent 37 percent of their time making decisions.