The relationship between applications and infrastructure has evolved a lot over the past few decades. We continue to see a steady move from centralized to distributed applications, data and infrastructure. With that move, we continue to see greater capabilities, more […]
Although the POTS line has served organizations well for over 100 years, the flexibility, scalability, and cost savings associated with VoIP make it a logical solution for enterprises. At the heart of VoIP implementations is the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) […]
Eric Barrett, Senior Director of Network Product Management, recently sat down to discuss our launch of Lumen® SD-WAN with VMware®. What follows has been lightly edited. What’s Lumen’s strategy in offering multiple SD-WAN vendor platforms? It starts with the reasons […]
Applications help organizations derive value from technology. IT departments can drive application efficiency and value by bringing applications and workloads closer to digital interactions and by using adaptive networking, high-performance compute, automation, connected security, and storage with edge computing. By having the right execution venue and management tools to orchestrate and operate […]
Throughout my career, I have seen technology achieve unimaginable levels of speed across our data networks. In so many ways, what we once considered network “latency” is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Now the real challenge might be […]
As we all continue to adjust to the new reality with which the world has been confronted in 2020, online video has been and will continue to be at the heart of many of the new ways of life. Whether […]
Most of today’s businesses operate in multiple cloud platforms. However, few apply clear management strategies to these platforms. For too many enterprises, this has resulted in a disjointed mix of vendors and inconsistently applied security and access policies. Managing the […]
Increased connectivity and more data being generated by things and people are prompting organizations to find new ways to process and store data where it is acquired, analyzed, and acted on. Edge computing fills that need by placing workloads closer […]
With many providers dropping PSTN functionality and ISDN from their service lists, the chances are good your company will soon be moving to a cloud-based phone system like VoIP or, better yet, a unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) platform that […]
