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Cloud Therapy: EP 024 – How SD-WAN Improves VoIP Call Quality
Learn how to improve your company’s VoIP call quality by adding SD-WAN to your Hosted VoIP service. Listen to Vonage Business‘ Sales Engineer, Jake Fry, explain how SD-WAN performs voice improving tasks like Forward Error Correction, Deep Packet Inspection and Multi-Path…
Cloud Therapy: EP 014 – Local Causes of Cloud Latency
If you are afraid of latency with your company’s cloud applications, the easiest “first step” is to understand the possible causes within your own local environment. Matrix IBS Director of Sales Engineering, Rich Erickson, discusses the most common local culprits of…
Cloud Therapy: EP 009 – The Time James Cancel Learned How to Prepare for a VoIP Install
Today, James Cancel is in charge of Globalgig’s (formerly Velis4) N.O.C. in Los Angeles but prior to working at Velis4, James was once a Hosted PBX repair engineer… and boy did he learn a painful technical lesson once on a…
Cloud Therapy: EP 005 – Improving your Cloud Server Implementation with Raj Palat
In this episode, Evolve IP‘s Manager of Sales Engineering, Raj Palat, outlines his insightful “Data Center Diamond” approach to cloud implementation. It’s a holistic approach to evaluating your cloud decision from every angle, which is exactly what your boss will…
SD-WAN, MPLS, P2P or VPN? [Infographic]
Which WAN technology is the best fit for your company? We made this nifty step-by-step infographic to help you decide. CLICK HERE if you’d like to download a copy (with links to WAN technology definitions), to save for later… and no,…
Cloud Therapy: Ep 003 – 5 Ways to Prepare for an SD-WAN Install
So you’ve decided to move to SD-WAN. What should your IT department do to make sure you have a smooth installation? To answer these questions, we invited an expert SD-WAN engineer, Jack Dolan from Aryaka Networks, to speak…
Cloud Therapy: Ep 002 – Questions for Service Providers for MPLS, SDWAN, P2P & VPN
Your company is shopping for a WAN service, such as MPLS, SDWAN, EPL (a.k.a. Point to Point), or IPsec VPN. And you want to pick the right technology and best provider…quickly. Well your ability to do the above is going…
Cloud Therapy: Episode 001 – What is SD-WAN? [Podcast]
What is SD-WAN and what are the benefits? How does it compare to MPLS and other business WAN services? We bring an extremely experienced, long-time provider engineer, David Kline from TPx (formerly TelePacific) Communications, to answer all of these questions for…
MPLS vs. SD-WAN
So you are contemplating replacing your MPLS network with an SD-WAN network. But you’re wondering, “What’s the difference?” Well, as I explained in a previous blog, SD-WAN can bring a ton of benefits, like increased network speed, more link uptime,…
Six Benefits of SD-WAN
You’re an IT manager for a company with multiple locations. Your MPLS WAN contract is coming up and you’re thinking… “Do we still need MPLS? Should we just go big bandwidth at all sites and run an IP-Sec VPN? Should…