Category Archives: SDN Engineering

SD-WAN & SASE: Secure your network and your information at the Edge

By: Mark Abolafia, Chief Operating Officer, Datavision, Inc. The advent of SD-WAN, enabled with APIs to orchestrate the controller and cloud-delivered security functions, offers an unprecedented level of control and management over your security environment. The connectivity cost reduction advantages of the SD-WAN approach are well known. But along with those reduced costs, SD-WAN, combined…

Protecting Your Information and Your Organization with SD-WAN and SASE

About SASE Recently, the driving forces of digital transformation, and the need to more fully secure subscribers at the network edge or when they are remote, have given impetus to transitioning from discrete appliances and disparate hardware-and-software combinations to software services and cloud-based applications in what is being termed as ‘SASE’ or Secure Access Service…

Datavision uCPE/SD-WAN Reference Solution at MEF18 (and Beyond!)

Datavision, Enea and partners demonstrate uCPE and SD-WAN reference solution at MEF18 Technical partnership between Datavision, Cloudify, Enea, Kontron and Fortinet, to drastically decrease operational costs for edge and customer premise deployments Los Angeles, CA, October 29, 2018 – Datavision, a global service integrator of SDN/NFV-centric orchestration solutions, Kontron – Communications Business, a provider of…

The Advent of NFV and Best Practices for Deployment

Traditional telecom OSS systems are being disrupted due to massive complexity, slow development time and legacy design concepts – the same is true on the enterprise side of the demarcation as well. Enterprises are looking to reduce operational expenditures and increase network agility and flexibility. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) benefits organizations on multiple levels, offering…

Operationalizing IT Services: SDN Federation/Operability Orchestration

In enterprise network and datacenter environments, the management of networking devices is still highly vendor specific with multiple element management systems communicating with, and controlling their respective families of devices. With the advent of “open” approaches driving the replacement of these devices with commodity hardware, the cost of that replacement relegates that approach to a…

What can SDN and NFV do to help transform the back-office operations of your business and increase your agility? Part 2

[Uh-jil-i-tee]: n, the power of moving quickly and easily, the ability to think and draw conclusions quickly, intellectual acuity. Agility: We always look for it in athletics, the handling of the cars we drive, the way performers dance and move on a stage, and in the sense of intellectual prowess, the ability to think on…

What can SDN and NFV do to help transform the back-office operations of your business and increase your agility?

Part 1: Transformation [trans-fer-mey-shun]: n, A complete or major change in someone’s or something’s appearance, form, nature, etc. Transformation is occurring in many facets of the Communication Service Provider’s (CSP’s) network, product offerings, service definitions and business operations.  Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been at the forefront as a catalyst…