Heavy Networking 484: Cloud And SD-WAN Are New Opportunities To Rethink Your Network (Sponsored)

Today on Heavy Networking our subject is: Stop treating your wide area network like a network.
What does that mean? Is it a Zen koan? If we meditate on the inherent contradictions in that sentence, will we achieve enlightenment?
Maybe not. But maybe we will learn to let go of old notions about how to design and run a WAN as more and more of our applications and infrastructure vanish into the cloud.
Open Systems is our sponsor for today’s episode and our Zen master for this discussion is Silvan Tschopp, head of solutions architecture at Open Systems.
We discuss:

* What Open Systems means by not treating the network like a network
* How SaaS and public cloud affect WAN design
* Using SD-WAN to get around traditional WAN limitations
* Benefits of integrating SD-WAN and security controls
* Potential tradeoffs that come with weighing down SD-WAN with features
* More

Show Links:
Open Systems
Silvan Tschopp on LinkedIn
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Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. Described by one listener as "verbal white papers," the weekly episodes feature network engineers, industry experts, and vendors sharing useful information to keep your professional knowledge sharp and your career growing. Hosts Greg Ferro, Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray cut through the marketing spin to explore what works—and what doesn't—in networking today, while keeping an eye on what's ahead for the industry. On air since 2010, Heavy Networking is the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.