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Remote Office In A Box (ROBO) Is Back, And It’s Called SD- WAN

Forrester IT

These companies tried various combinations of routers, wide area network (WAN) optimization, security, Wi-Fi, switching, and voice over IP (VoIP). Over the last decade and a half, networking vendors have been using various methods to bundle wired, wireless, voice over IP, and security products into a solution sale.

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Busting 4 common SD-WAN misconceptions

CIO Business Intelligence

Legacy network shortcomings led to the rapid growth of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). Cost savings and ROI: SD-WAN routes traffic efficiently over multiple channels—including existing MPLS circuits and the public internet via LTE, broadband, and 5G. This reduces latency. They are not equally effective solutions.

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Minimizing Jitter for VoIP calls

Spearline Testing

To most organizations, Voice Over Internet Protocol or VoIP mobile services are a perfect option. While VoIP has many important aspects, one of the most widespread and common problems that it faces is Jitter. The simple fact that the service is provided over an internet link is part of what makes VoIP Telephony so efficient.

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Do your VoIP services have a case of the 'jitters'?

Spearline Testing

Since the global adoption of VoIP and video as primary communication solutions, Unified Communications (UC) has never had a more valuable asset. The 'VoIP approach' provides organizations with feature-filled telephony service at a fraction of the standard company telephony price, proving highly effective.

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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Network World

In response to these realities, Gartner coined a new term, secure service edge (SSE), which is essentially SASE minus SD-WAN , the network access part of the equation. As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN. Palo Alto has a strong ZTNA offering, and it can provide SD-WAN for organizations that want to take the single-vendor SASE route.

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The VoIP connection: Don’t be jittery with bad audio quality

Spearline Testing

This issue is a common cause of poor VoIP conversations. What is VoIP? Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) allows individuals to make calls over the internet. A great solution for most businesses, VoIP telephone systems allows more flexibility than ever before. A buffer is a caching system for receiving data packets.

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What Is: Packet Loss

Spearline Testing

The end result of these packets failing to reach the opposite end of the network communication leads to missing data, in a VoIP call it would lead to missing pieces of the conversation. Insufficient bandwidth/ the bandwidth cap to handle a VoIP call will lead to packets being dropped or delivered out of order.

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