Even though managing Arista switches is pretty great, sometimes performing things like software upgrades can be tedious and boring, especially when there are a lot of switches to upgrade at a time. Here at WAN Dynamics, we like to solve tedious problems with automation so to for this particular challenge.

What a great week at VMware's VMworld 2018 event in Las Vegas, the first VMworld conference for WAN Dynamics. Our primary interest at the show was to learn more about what is in store for the VeloCloud product as it is one of the key solutions for our managed SD-WAN product, DynaWAN. After this event, it's more clear than ever that VMware might just be the best organization for VeloCloud to have been acquired by.

WAN Dynamics has been spending a lot more time with Ansible when deploying and managing customer network environments. Arista is one of our closest partners so we use their gear a lot and have come to realize a few truths to automating Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS) environments with Ansible. Here are some reasons we’ve found why Ansible and Arista come together like peanut butter and jelly:

On the tail of a new report that details how SDN & SD-WAN are becoming a mainstream consideration within many organizations, we have been pondering on why SD-WAN and cloud based network solutions have struck such a chord. 2017 was an incredible year of transformation in the network industry and 2018 is shaping up to be even bigger!

WAN Dynamics Senior Network Engineer Kevin Giusti explains the dual datacenter DMZ configuration with VXLAN, VARP, VRF & OSPF.

Want to see SD-WAN in action? WAN Dynamics CTO Jason Gintert presents an impromptu video showing just how incredibly seamless access failover is using VeloCloud SD-WAN. Here Jason demonstrates failover from cable Internet to 4G/LTE in the middle of a hosted IP phone call, and the call does not drop! See it for yourself!

We recently sat down with Eric Nichols from Apple Growth Partners and talked about why Apple Growth chose WAN Dynamics for their SD-WAN needs, the various challenges facing their network, and how the team at WAN Dynamics were able to help Apple Growth resolve WAN issues by implementing the latest technologies. Check out the interview!

Though our name would imply we only work with wide area networks, WAN Dynamics has been working on some very interesting (and fun!) datacenter deployments as well, using primarily Arista Networks gear. First thing to note: this kit and company are fantastic. We genuinely enjoy working with Arista hardware, software and most of all, their people.

We recently sat down with Curtis McEwen from Saber Healthcare and talked about why Saber chose WAN Dynamics for their SD-WAN needs, the various challenges facing their network, and how the team at WAN Dynamics were able to help Saber resolve WAN issues by implementing the latest technologies. Check out the interview!

We're pleased to announce our recent case-study webinar event, Driving Rapid Healthcare Enterprise Growth with SD-WAN! Our CTO and Co-Founder Jason Gintert, in conjunction with VeloCloud Networks, hosted Curtis McEwen from Saber Healthcare to discuss the many advantages of utilizing SD-WAN in the healthcare industry.