In my last post in this mini-series, I covered why so many customers we’re talking to are considering migrating away from MPLS and the journey to SD-WAN. In this follow-up post on wide area network monitoring, we’ll look at the growing pains associated with migrating to Direct Internet Access (DIA).…
Working at ThousandEyes I frequently talk to customers looking to move away from MPLS wide area networks to direct internet access (DIA), typically as part of a branch/edge router refresh and often incorporating cloud proxy and SD-WAN technologies. The success of these network transformations generally depends on uncovering issues related…
On July 6, 2016, Pokémon GO, the augmented reality gaming phenomenon, launched in the United States, and millions became Pokémon trainers with the dream to “catch’ em all.” By July 7, Pokémon GO was the most downloaded and top-grossing game in the United States. At the time of this writing,…
Beginning at 10:55pm Pacific on May 3, 2016, the Level 3 network experienced severe network issues across several coastal locations in the U.S. and the U.K. The incident was mentioned on the Outages mailing list at outages.org, and by the time the issues ended around 12:05am over an hour later,…
In our second report from ThousandEyes Connect, we dive into Aldrin Isaac’s discussion about how the core of the Internet could be improved so that enterprises wouldn’t have to rely solely on private networks or CDNs to improve performance and reliability. Aldrin Isaac, from the CTO Office at Bloomberg, works…
