Widening the connectivity net
With cloud use rapidly expanding a new, software-defined approach to networking is changing connectivity and promises tight security can be married to ease of use. Jason Walsh reports
When we think of networks, if we do at all, we tend to think at the two extremes: the local area network (LAN) in an office or other workplace or the global network of networks that is the internet.
Sitting between the two, though, is the wide area network (WAN), which is typically used to link organisations together across multiple sites. As with the rest of information technology infrastructure, this area has been undergoing no ...
