The Connectivity Transformation Blog

WAN Dynamics works with Arista for WAN Routing System

WAN Dynamics is proud to collaborate with Arista Networks on the development of their new WAN Routing System. As a leading provider of networking solutions, Arista Networks has a reputation for delivering innovative and reliable products, and we are honored to work with them on this exciting project.
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Remote Packet Capture over SSH on Arista EOS

Packet Captures or PCAPs are often necessary for network engineers to get to the root cause of issues in a network. As an esteemed friend and talented network engineering friend likes to say, “PCAP or it didn’t happen.” That said, getting a packet capture can be fraught with issues. How do you get mirrored packets for capture to a laptop or other computer that can review them onsite? Can you easily get a remote desktop session going to it? What if that host goes to sleep or goes offline for some reason? Is there a user that has the technical capability at the location in question to set up a capture?
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WAN Dynamics on Prestigious Weatherhead 100 List

WAN Dynamics is proud to announce fourth-place in the Upstart category of the Weatherhead 100. This award, given out annually by the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, recognizes the fastest-growing companies in Northeast Ohio. To be eligible for the award, companies must be privately held and headquartered in Northeast Ohio. They must also demonstrate significant revenue growth over the past four years. This year, WAN Dynamics was among a highly competitive group of companies vying for a spot on the Weatherhead 100 list.
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WAN Dynamics on the INC5000!

Inc. 5000 announced that WAN Dynamics, a leading provider of managed and professional network services for medium and large enterprise customers globally, has made its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
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SCP on Arista Switches

It’s the year 2022 so can we collectively agree to stop using insecure protocols like FTP and TFTP to transfer files to and from your network devices? One of the many advantages of Arista switches is that you can use Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) which is an encrypted protocol to move files to and from them and also use the switch itself as an SCP source or destination. Years ago if you were remote and performed a firmware update to a network device you’d have to set up an FTP or TFTP server and then deal with the headaches when doing active vs. passive FTP if going through a firewall etc. With SCP it runs over port 22 (same as SSH) so in theory if you can SSH to the device you should also be able to SCP to it.
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WAN Dynamics Rises Up List of Top Global MSPs

WAN Dynamics is proud to announce placement in the prestigious Channel Futures MSP 501 list of the top Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in the world. This year listed at #105, up from #291 last year, WAN Dynamics is thrilled to ascend the world’s most comprehensive MSP survey and ranking list in the channel.
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WAN Dynamics Added to Sandler Partners Portfolio

WAN Dynamics is excited to announce our addition to the Sandler Partners Portfolio! WAN Dynamics has signed with a Sandler Strong Evergreen agreement, becoming part of the Sandler Partners community. Sandler Partners will now be able to help their customers make their networks more agile in order to reduce operating expense, lessen time to deployment, prevent outages and eliminate costly configuration errors. WAN Dynamics designs custom network solutions as well as provides both professional consulting and managed services across a range of diverse, essential enterprise networking areas for their global list of clients.
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Practical Uses for Palo Alto Panorama Templates

Palo Alto Networks Panorama is a great tool that enables organizations to manage and analyze many firewalls at scale. Our customers often ask for improvements that make deploying or maintaining firewalls a more repeatable, consistent process. Templates can certainly help with this. However, if not properly planned and executed it can lead to the opposite effect by introducing unnecessary complexity, additional deployment tasks, and the potential for issues down the road. The best time to plan a template strategy is at the time of a new deployment. It’s much easier to build out with the right approach than have to rebuild it once already in production. There are a few template strategies that we encounter in the field:
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What is Network as a Service (NaaS)?

Organizations are moving at a more furious pace than ever to provision and manage their increasingly complex networks. With rapid growth of cloud and remote workforce connectivity making things ever more diverse, the demand for self service provisioning and simple network management is growing. Enter the latest buzz in the connectivity world, something known as Network as a Service (NaaS). Like most new technology solutions developing from the primordial ooze, the specifics around the feature sets of solutions in this space are still emerging. That said, it’s still important for network practitioners to understand the fundamentals and be aware of what is coming to market. While the solutions are so young, customers who are having early conversations with vendors can help shape the direction of this space.
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