After all of the excitement caused (primarily by the price tag of) VMware's Nicira acquisition, we find that nobody including VMware/Nicira is the VMware of networking. VMware enabled server ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The early internet concept of an overlay network has an important role to ...

The boss as asked you to deploy telepresence and your job is the network. The first decision to make is: Do we implement an overlay network or converge the telepresence traffic on the data network? An ...

A logical network that runs on top of another network. For example, peer-to-peer networks are overlay networks on the Internet. They use their own addressing system to determine how files are ...

The increasing need for compute resources can strain traditional infrastructure, as well as the IT teams responsible for delivering on time and under budget. Previously, scaling a business required ...

Overlay networks and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems form a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, offering resilient, scalable frameworks for resource sharing and content distribution. By creating a ...

One way to ensure the security of business transactions, customer data and intellectual property is to use IPSec to provide data encryption and authentication services. However, the management of ...

An effort to apply blockchain technologies to create a network overlay that makes it possible to programmatically control how individual packets travel across an Ethernet-based network was advanced ...

Last week’s update about the Proxim-Avaya-Motorola voice-centric wireless roaming partnership made me wonder where the wireless overlay vendors fit into the “fast-roaming” craze. I’m talking about ...