SD-WAN is the hottest new technology on the network, and many distributed organizations are already or will soon adopt this technology. We will give you 10 main points about SD-WAN technology that will allow you to make a decision about using it in your company.

Large companies have ready-made solutions designed to work with a large number of users. For orchestration, as a rule, a software or hardware Wi-Fi controller is used. its tasks include not only managing the fleet of radio devices, but also providing some basic security functions, including user authorization and VPN

This switch has no competitor with the same number of ports and support for 2.5 G Base-T and 5GBase-T. We tested this model for compatibility with existing network cards and cables, as well as measured performance.

In the modern world, there is enough technology to send Wi-Fi to the entire territory of your office, without bothering with wires. For such cases, super-budget equipment from Tenda is used: do not fill your head with unnecessary parameters and settings: set up Wi-Fi even in those rooms where it is not possible to throw a cable, and when you see the estimate, you will cry with happiness.

This model is designed specifically for video surveillance systems, and the switch supports remote reloading of PoE cameras, continuous power supply, and most importantly - connecting cameras at a distance of up to 250 meters. This is the function we will test with passion.

Because the network allows you to access applications, exchange data, and connect to storage, good streaming telemetry can even detect application errors. Mellanox has decided that its ASICS are good enough to tell you the whole truth about where, when, and why packets are dropped on the network.

A simple device that you can use to disable your employees ' access to entertainment sites, block Internet access to entire categories of websites, set up a fast VPN and fault-tolerant operation of two providers.

SmartNIC uses DMA speed for fast memory access, works in an isolated environment, all calculations take place on the ARM processor of the network card, and all server computing resources remain available to users and applications.

For services like Microsoft Azure, reducing stored data by a few percent means saving millions of dollars. Microsoft announced the Corsica project this week as the culmination of the development of its zipline compression standard. As you might guess, this standard provides compression and encryption, reducing the size of files and encrypting them.

The main tool for analyzing and verifying data is packet capture. With a full packet Flow record, you can study and analyze the incident to the smallest level of detail. Each packet can be detected and checked using DPI (Deep Packet Inspection), and any stream can be recreated up to the exact time of passage of each packet.

The concept of SmartNIC goes beyond a simple connection and already implies that the network card itself, and not the server's Central processor or storage, processes not only network traffic and protocols, but even some calculations of the application itself. In other words, SmartNIC takes care of offloading everything related to communications, freeing up processor resources for useful power. Cool, right?

For more than 10 years, Intel has been trumpeting the benefits of silicon Photonics, which has been under development for two decades. Intel itself has long adhered to the concept of unbundled computing and storage devices for data centers, combined through optics. During Intel Interconnect Day 2019, the company revealed that its silicon Photonics has grown from a lab project to a product ready to go to customers.