Cricket Wireless (do check our review of the carrier here), the prepaid subsidiary of AT&T, is kicking off the holidays (also explore our early holidays guide) by launching a new special offer that promises four Cricket Unlimited 2 lines of service that each come with unlimited minutes of voice calls, text messaging, and access to high speed data, for only a hundred bucks every month. from https://www.wirefly.com/blog/news/cricket-wireless-has-new-4-lines-100-unlimited-offer The market predictions for SD-WAN growth show a hockey-stick. What is most interesting about this growth is it’s literally across the spectrum from the SMB or small business all the way up to the enterprise. It’s unusual for a technology to be applicable to all segments of the market at once. To learn more, we decided to seek out and interview Kevin Suitor the CMO of TELoIP as his company serves brings quality SD-WAN solutions to companies of all sizes. When and how did you get into the SD-WAN market? TELoIP was an early mover in software-defined networks, and we’ve been providing innovative SDN/SD-WAN solutions for business since 2002. Our initial focus was on delivering the promise of the internet for business and we earned 21 patents to-date focused upon increasing the speed, reliability and performance for voice, video and data services over broadband. Beginning around 2010, many of our multi-site customers ran managed VPN solutions using our solutions delivering a software-defined performance boost as a cost-effective MPLS replacement, by today’s standards these were early SD-WAN deployments. Further TELoIP innovation led to the official launch of VINO SD-WAN product line in March of 2016. VINO SD-WAN combined our patented last-mile broadband optimization solution (VINO SD-Internet) and orchestration portal (VINO Portal) with a multi-tenant control plane that provides secure end-to-end multi-point encryption scalable to over 10,000 end-points. Tell us more about your particular offerings in this space. TELoIP offer software-defined solutions as a Virtual Intelligent Network Overlay (VINO™). VINO solutions are sold as a per site licenses which are based on the throughput capacity for the customer location on a 1, 2, or 3 year basis. Each site license is a Network-as-a-Service solution including the premises appliance, the SD-WAN overlay license, North America wide WAN connectivity, centralized orchestration, management and provisioning through the VINO Portal, plus professional design services, certified installation and ongoing 24/7/365 support. VINO is available in two offerings, VINO SD-Internet and VINO SD-WAN. VINO SD-Internet provides broadband optimization for voice, video, data and public cloud applications for customers who require faster speeds, better performance and seamless fast-failover to prevent downtime. VINO SD-WAN combines all the last-mile optimization advantages of VINO SD-Internet, plus a fully managed and encrypted end-to-end SD-WAN transport between remote business sites and a public/private multi-cloud environment. VINO SD-WAN also offers optional add-on VINO RAS licenses to securely connect remote and mobile workers or IoT devices into the encrypted SD-WAN cloud overlay network. What is driving enterprise interest in SD-WAN? For almost 20 years, enterprises have relied on a hardware-centric approach to networking with sites and data centers being interconnected by MPLS. Today, several interconnected external forces that are collectively driving the legacy WAN to the breaking point; cloud computing, bandwidth demand, security and IoT. As applications move to the cloud they require more bandwidth. The insatiable demand for bandwidth cannot be sustained by MPLS, which is driving enterprises to low-cost broadband. Broadband WAN leads to increased security risks which drives enterprises toward the centralized orchestration and encryption of SD-WAN. While IoT is driving a similar cycle that also involves cloud computing, bandwidth and security with the added element of billions of devices. If we take an internal view, enterprise interest is being driven by the agility of SD-WAN. Enterprises want to embrace innovation and improve the customers experience, and the digital initiatives that achieve this increasingly relate to cloud computing, IoT or both. The big inhibitor for enterprise innovation is the legacy WAN because it makes digital transformation seem too costly or too complex. SD-WAN eliminates these excuses so when it comes to digital innovation, you absolutely can do it. What is the biggest pain your solutions take away for customers? Fear. Customers are apprehensive about SD-WAN because the network is increasingly at the core of everything they do. MPLS has provided a security blanket because it’s been the de-facto standard for enterprise networks. Enterprises are hesitant to relinquish that security because of the fear, uncertainty and doubt related to SD-WAN and specifically the concerns about running mission-critical applications over broadband. TELoIP VINO solutions provide the confidence customers need to embrace SD-WAN. Our Network-as-a-Service model includes the professional engineering to build a custom designed solution, plus the certified installation and ongoing support. VINO solutions have been in the market for 15 years, and our experience team understands how to seamlessly integrate your legacy hardware, software and access networks into your SD-WAN. We also offer multiple deployment scenarios including the versatility to keep using MPLS if that’s what you want. Additionally, our market-proven broadband optimization technology protects mission-critical applications against broadband brownout and outages, even during peak periods of network usage. Patented VINO performance protects you from latency, jitter and packet-loss by conditioning the broadband circuits and intelligently routing packets across all available connections. The result is stunning broadband performance, with pin drop voice quality and no dropped calls on failover. Taken together, Network-as-a-Service plus broadband optimization give customers the peace of mind to embrace SD-WAN with confidence. What is your target audience? TELoIP solutions are highly scalable and affordable, which makes them appealing for many SMB and enterprise customers. VINO solutions are highly affordable with surprising low entry prices points starting from $51/month for a 25Mbps plan, which creates a great fit for the SMB and Mid-Market enterprise segments. Mid-market enterprise customers who run MPLS are our sweet spot, they have limited pricing power with the MPLS carrier and they have limited IT resources to take on the SD-WAN migration. These customers appreciate that our Network-as-a-Service include professional services and support and that VINO broadband optimization enables the to fully replace MPLS without sacrificing quality or reliability. How do you go to market? Direct? MSPs? Carriers? Etc. TELoIP partners with MSPs, Cloud Service Providers and Carriers. Our architecture is purpose built to accelerate time-to-market for our partners. Our multi-tenant network of distributed SDN controllers is built to carrier class standards, and this infrastructure is included with all VINO licenses. VINO Portal is a role-based multi-tenant cloud orchestration portal that brings efficiency to order entry, provisioning and support with seamless collaboration between TELoIP operation and service providers. What synergistic technologies and markets are aided by SD-WAN? VINO SD-WAN natively provides seamless failover and optimization for all branch internet traffic which creates added synergy for all public clouds and SaaS applications. VINO SD-WAN provides synergy with any third party hosted VoIP services with broadband optimization and no dropped calls on failover. VINO SD-WAN also provides peering to Microsoft clouds which further enhances the performance of popular applications such as Skype for Business, SharePoint and Office 365. Additional areas for SD-WAN synergy include private cloud services, managed IT services, VoIP phones, virtual desktop, cloud storage and broadband carrier management. What regions of the world will be most disrupted by SD-WAN? North America, Asia and Europe as already being substantially disrupted by SD-WAN. There is also significant opportunity in South America and Africa, but there is less disruption here because the MPLS market is less developed. In these areas SD-WAN is perceived as a way to enhance existing broadband networks with enterprise features. How do you differentiate your company from others in the market? VINO solutions are more than SD-WAN, they create a unified software-defined enterprise network that optimize both internet and WAN traffic. VINO further differentiates on performance and price. We see the battleground as the edge, where our legacy technology has been delivering multi-patented performance and reliability over broadband for many years. VINO solutions are built on a carrier-class multi-tenant infrastructure which keeps down the costs for our partners and customers. Additional differentiation for VINO SD-WAN is the support for remote and mobile workers and IoT devices, where VINO RAS licenses provide a simple and secure access solution that connects directly into the VINO SD-WAN through the cloud gateway controllers. What is driving the competitive SD-WAN landscape? Why are so many vendors and providers throwing their hats in the ring? Everyone agrees that traditional hardware-centric WAN is no longer viable and that SD-WAN offers compelling value. WAN is a big market and it’s clearly ripe for disruption. Once you get beyond the initial common marketing claims, it’s less clear what an SD-WAN actually is. The SD-WAN landscape is being classified in a few ways that can help customers identify the right fit. One important distinction is between Do-it-Yourself SD-WAN and SD-WAN-as-a-Service which offers customers predictable pricing and frees up skilled IT resources. Another distinction is between appliance-based SD-WAN solutions versus SD-WAN cloud overlays, this is key because cloud overlay solutions have better integration for customers who use both public and private clouds. The good news for customers who prefer the SD-WAN cloud overlay option and want it delivered as-a-service, there really aren’t that many of us. How will the competitive landscape change in the next year? There will likely be some market consolidation as SD-WAN crosses the chasm to mass market adoption. We expect new offerings from traditional providers who are looking to defend their customer base, and some downward pressure on MPLS pricing. As a market innovator, we know that SD-WAN is here to stay and many great SDN innovations are coming soon. What is the future for your organization? TELoIP is currently expanding into Europe and Asia while continuing to innovate SD-WAN, SDN and IoT solutions with virtual network functions that create value for business networks. The best way to learn more about SD-WAN and related activities and see TELoIP and the entire SD-WAN ecosystem in action is to be at the world’s only SD-WAN Expo @sd-wanexpo, Feb. 14-16, Fort Lauderdale, FL. We hope to see you there! Tags: channel partner, cisco, cybersecurity, mpls, networking, nfv, sd-wan, sdn, sdwan, sip, sip trunking, teloip, ucaas, velocloud, wan Related tags: broadband optimization, software defined, multi tenant, cloud computing, cloud overlay, broadband
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from http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/networking/teloip-brings-sd-wan-to-companies-of-all-sizes.html
Here is our interview: What is driving enterprise interest in SD-WAN? The business and technology drivers are many but these I believe are the top five:
What is the biggest pain your solutions take away for customers? Compared to other SD-WAN vendors:
For the multi-location enterprises, one of the biggest pains is managing multiple vendors and network types in conjunction with an SD-WAN project. As a nationwide network operator and aggregator, AireSpring is uniquely suited to address this customer pain point. Most multi-location enterprises are normally forced to work with multiple network vendors. The larger and more geographically dispersed, the larger the number of vendors which could be dozens or more, including broadband providers, metro Ethernet vendors, telco carriers, etc. Each of these vendors have their own service contract, SLAs, and terms and conditions. Each location would also tend to need a network manager and staff to look after the network and deal with any issues that come up. With SD-WAN gateways installed throughout AireSpring’s core network, you are able to fully mesh and interconnect your SD-WAN with any carrier, circuit or technology via AireSpring’s network, which acts as the “glue” over multiple transport types—Ethernet, Fiber, Broadband, LTE, EOC, TDM and more. Additionally connect with a wide range of AireSpring solutions, including MPLS, UCaaS, SIP Trunking and Internet. What is your target audience? Our ideal target audience is multi-location enterprises in vertical industries such as transportation and logistics, financial services and banking, retail, and healthcare. These might be companies that are trying to augment an existing MPLS network with less expensive SD-WAN or to combine dissimilar connectivity to optimize bandwidth. Another key audience is SMBs looking to optimize the voice quality of their VoIP/hosted voice solutions when they are running over the public internet. How do you go to market? Direct? MSPs? Carriers? Etc.- AireSpring is 100% channel focused. We have no retail division or direct sales team that competes with our channel partners. Our GTM (go to market) strategy involves partnering with large master agencies, independent telecom agents, communications consultants, and VARs from both inside and outside the telecom industry. What synergistic technologies and markets are aided by SD-WAN? SD-WAN isn’t built to uproot the world of connectivity and networking. In fact, it works to support existing technologies, rather than replace them. MPLS is the first technology that comes to mind. We view the relationship between SD-WAN and MPLS as a marriage not a divorce. Many talk about the rise of SD-WAN and the fall of MPLS as if the two technologies are incompatible or competitive instead of what they truly are to each other: complementary. Why? Because there’s no replacement for guaranteed quality of service (QoS) end-to-end in a network and that’s what MPLS delivers. For this reason, some of the largest carriers in the world, including AT&T and even AireSpring, are built on MPLS as their IP Core. Augmenting MPLS with SD-WAN means:
What regions of the world will be most disrupted by SD-WAN? According to Forrester Research, the U.S. represents 82% of global SD-WAN sales today, with European and APAC markets expected to grow more in 2018. US Multi-national corporations have many offices in many countries across the globe hence the potential to be disruptive over all regions but particularly in Asia and Europe. How do you differentiate your company from others in the market? AireSpring is a nationwide network operator and managed services provider and offers more than one SD WAN vendor to its clients. AireSpring believes that the One Size Fits All approach fits none, when it comes to SD-WAN. AireSpring is also carrier agnostic with SD-WAN gateways installed throughout AireSpring’s core network, we are able to be fully mesh and interconnect SD-WAN with a wide range of AireSpring solutions, including MPLS, UCaaS, SIP Trunking and Internet and/or connect any carrier or circuit via AireSpring’s network, which acts as the “glue” over multiple transport types—Ethernet, Fiber, Broadband, LTE, EOC, TDM and more. Single carriers clearly cannot offer this option. AireSpring also provides a catalog of professional services that are included FREE with our SD-WAN solutions such as free 3rd party circuit support; Free WRITE Access to the SD-WAN Cloud-Based Orchestrator’s “single pane of glass view” which is currently not offered by any other carrier, as well as Free READ access; AireSpring will provide implementation design and engineering services where we will design, configure, deploy and support our SD-WAN solutions for no additional cost; free network monitoring; an escalation list that goes up to our CEO. What is driving the competitive SD-WAN landscape? Why are so many vendors and providers throwing their hats in the ring? The WAN technology and engineering talent necessary to enter this market has been widely available at many hi-tech virtualization and networking companies. Hence both established players like Cisco and startups like VeloCloud, whose founders hail from VMWare, can easily enter a very hot and lucrative market. The foundational technology required to design a fully functional, branch-office WAN edge solution is readily available. As the adoption of cloud services and real-time applications accelerated, the threshold was met and the flood gates opened the door to more and more SD-WAN wannabees. SD-Wan has reached a point in the market adoption curve making it very attractive through 2020. Consolidation in this industry has already begun. SD-WAN is a hot market because its features continue to drive compelling use cases that not only save money but open up entirely new ways to grow revenue. It’s a competitive edge which combined with its amazing ability to be provisioned quickly, makes it very appealing How will the competitive landscape change in the next year? There will be more consolidation among the 35 or so SD-WAN vendors and larger tech giants will look to acquire a strong SD-WAN provider to round out their own product offerings. Also SD-WAN vendors will merge together. Organizations are more concerned about how SD-WAN will solve their business problems, save them money and improve their own competitive position and don’t care so much about hitching their wagon to a particular SD-WAN vendor. There is a low loyalty factor and SD-WAN vendors will probably look to be acquired by larger tech giants with whom the Global 2000 do have established relationships and on whose platform they have standardized such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. Speculation that some SD-WAN vendors could fall by the wayside during a forthcoming round of consolidation is causing concern and fueling the drive for standardization and interoperability. What is the future for your organization? We’ll continue to grow with the same price leading rich feature set we always have with an emphasis on perfecting our domestic operation in the USA and continuing our international expansion which will gain a lot of momentum in 2018. And a continued focus on the Channel as our partners. The best way to learn more about SD-WAN and related activities and see Airespring and the entire SD-WAN ecosystem in action is to be at the world’s only SD-WAN Expo @sd-wanexpo, Feb. 14-16, Fort Lauderdale, FL. We hope to see you there! Tags: airespring, channel partner, cisco, cybersecurity, mpls, networking, nfv, sd-wan, sdn, sdwan, sip, sip trunking, ucaas, velocloud, wan Related tags: location enterprises, multi location, nationwide network, cloud services, airespring solutions, airespring
from http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/sd-wan-is-booming-and-airespring-is-providing-its-customers-innovative.html
When and how did you get into the SD-WAN market? TPx entered the SD-WAN market in February 2015. After an introduction to VeloCloud at the BroadSoft Connections conference, we saw how this could really work for our customers and began intensive testing of the technology because we could see its game changing potential. We tested for a 18 months before bringing our product to market. Tell us more about your particular offerings in this space. TPx offers a use-case driven SD-WAN powered product. ITx for WAN brings scalable, tested, and supportable features to market vs. supporting any and every feature offered by the OEM. We’re definitely focused on quality and reliability. TPx operates and maintains its own network to deliver the completed service and only leverages the SD-WAN vendor’s technology to enable the service. TPx is constantly taking feedback from customers and partners and refining our offer based on that feedback. We introduced a new 4G LTE primary access in Q3 2017 that broke the traditional barriers for broadband access – really making it available most locations across the country with no need to wait for fiber buildouts! What is driving enterprise interest in SD-WAN? Cost savings over expensive MPLS access and increased visibility into application usage and performance. What is the biggest pain your solutions take away for customers? Quality of service concerns when using Internet-based access technologies. In addition, giving customers insight and business intelligence into what their users are doing and how their applications are performing. What is your target audience? The SMB to sub-enterprise space, with a real expertise serving multilocation businesses. Our customer set is national in scope, encompassing businesses, not-for-profits and government. How do you go to market? Direct? MSPs? Carriers? Etc. All of the above. We have a very active Direct and wholesale business as well as a thriving channel business where our agent partners drive about half of our overall sales. What synergistic technologies and markets are aided by SD-WAN? UCaaS, Managed Security, Managed IT What regions of the world will be most disrupted by SD-WAN? It is applicable everywhere, however, regions that have problematic access will certainly see a big benefit from the capabilities that SD WAN brings. How do you differentiate your company from others in the market? TPx is the premier managed services carrier – which means we bring a long and proven corporate DNA of guaranteed reliability, resilience and industry-leading customer service to the table. We bring a focus on customers and their use cases rather than simply being all about the technology itself. We provide a completely managed service and we really don’t care if the access is over our own network or another providers. Our customers don’t need to worry either way because we will manage it end-to-end. We are one of the early movers who saw the potential of SD WAN, tested it, rolled it out and refined it in concert with our technology partners and customer feedback. We have a great track record already, and continue to add to that proof point every day. What is driving the competitive SD-WAN landscape? Why are so many vendors and providers throwing their hats in the ring? SDN is allowing mature technologies, such as DMVPN and WAN optimization, to be seamlessly managed. This means that scaling these solutions is much easier and no longer requires expensive and dedicated engineers for a customer to maintain internally. How will the competitive landscape change in the next year? You will see consolidation of the SD WAN software vendors. It’s already happening with Cisco buying Viptela and VMWare buying VeloCloud. The best startups will be absorbed by organizations with deep pockets and broader complimentary offers. What is the future for your organization? We see SD WAN as an enabler for our managed services. We can take an access-agnostic approach and push our services out anywhere an Internet connection is available. To stay ahead, we will continue to innovate and drive differentiated services in the market. The best way to learn more about SD-WAN and related activities and see TPx Communications and the entire SD-WAN ecosystem in action is to be at the world’s only SD-WAN Expo @sd-wanexpo, Feb. 14-16, Fort Lauderdale, FL. We hope to see you there!
Tags: mpls, networking, nfv, sd-wan, sdn, sdwan, telepacific, tpx communications, velocloud, wan Related tags: managed services, market, managed, access, customers, services
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from http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/networking/tpx-communications-successfully-adds-sd-wan-to-its-portfolio-of-servic.html Verizon Wireless has recently revealed that it is planning to officially launch its first ever 5G residential broadband offering within the second half of next year. The plan is to debut its 5G service in Sacramento, the capital city of the state of California, before launching in up to four other markets in the United States. from https://www.wirefly.com/blog/news/verizon-s-5g-debut-late-next-year-sacramento-plus-4-other-cities According to a recent report published by FierceWireless, Verizon Wireless should be on track to debut its 5G broadband offering in several markets within the United States by next year. As pointed out by Nicola Palmer, the chief network officer of the mobile operator, the Big Red has been busy conducting field tests with customers (albeit of the non-paying kind) in 11 markets. Verizon is taking full advantage of 28 GigaHertz spectrum and 120+ nodes. from https://www.wirefly.com/blog/news/5g-updates-verizon-wireless-and-sprint A team of researchers working for the world’s biggest vendor of smartphone devices have found a way to achieve both fast charging abilities and high capacity charging. Joining forces with South Korea’s Seoul National National University, Samsung’s crew found that by wrapping the electrodes with a thin layer of graphene, they were able to offer a battery that is capable of fully charging in only a dozen minutes, with as much as 45 percent more capacity. Needless to say, this research effort could pave the way for faster charging and lighter batteries that can be used not only smartphones and tablet devices, but even in electric vehicles. from https://www.wirefly.com/blog/news/samsung-s-new-battery-material-allows-5-times-normal-charging-speed According to a report recently released by Rosenblatt Securities, this year’s Black Friday weekend saw consumers purchase 6 million units of Apple’s iPhone X. The flagship device’s total tally in terms of estimated units sold is now at 15 million, which is an impressive number not only because it has only been three weeks since the handset has hit store shelves everywhere, but also because the device happens to be the most expensive smartphone ever released by Apple. from https://www.wirefly.com/blog/news/6-million-iphone-x-units-sold-during-black-friday-weekend Getting rid of an addiction is never easy, but for some, substituting it for something similar (but less damaging) may do the trick. And in this day and age where mobile devices rule the land, some people find that they have become too attached to their smartphones, for better or worse, causing them to lose some sleep, sustain eye strain, or suffer nomophobia (the fear or feeling of anxiety of not being able to check one’s smartphone for new messages), whether they admit it or not. from https://www.wirefly.com/blog/news/substitute-phones-answer-mobile-addiction-sort |
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