Talari Networks Highlights Adaptive Private Networking

Talari Networks recently worked with the Webtorials Analyst Division to create both a white paper and a webcast to explore the benefits of Adaptive Private Networking (APN).

"The Compelling ROI of Adaptive Private Networking" by Jim Metzler, Webtorials Editorial/Analyst Division, provides an overview of a networking infrastructure that can indeed provide a "better, cheaper, faster" networking architecture that's quite scalable. The paper explains, "Adaptive Private Networking (APN) is an emerging way to create virtual WANs. When compared to traditional WAN services such as Frame Relay and MPLS, APNs provide both higher levels of reliability , dramatic cost savings, and significantly more bandwidth. An APN is based on packet-by-packet, real-time traffic engineering that leverages the reliability and bandwidth of multiple active paths through the Internet. The reliability improvement that APN delivers by leveraging multiple active paths allows an APN to exploit the superior price/performance of consumer-oriented ISP services."

Additionally, Steven Taylor recently conducted a technically oriented interview with Talari executives concerning their "APN technology. In this webcast, we found that APN provides the capability to use multiple inexpensive WAN links to provide a service level that's comparable with MPLS services. This goes beyond traditional load balancing by measuring latency and other key parameters for optimization.
Additional resource: Special Webcast

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Webtorials | October 21, 2009 4:56 PM | Reply

We had some great questions during the webcast, but there were some that we didn't have time for. Can you please address the question, "Moving equipment and services to colocation facilities is becoming more popular. So, does Adaptive Private Networking allow for moving some or all services to colocation?"

Webtorials | October 21, 2009 6:33 PM | Reply

Another question that we were not able to address during the webinar is, "What happens if the Service Provider has a problem, outage or DOS attack, what happens then?"

Keith Morris - Talari | October 28, 2009 1:03 PM | Reply

Colocation facilities have been popular for Internet facing services because they usually have excellent Internet connectivity via multiple Tier-1 networks, and for disaster recovery because they are remote and secure. However, until recently reliable connectivity to a colocation facility was possible only via expensive private WAN services such as MPLS.

With Adaptive Private Networking (APN), an enterprise can take advantage of very inexpensive and diverse Internet connectivity to reliably connect remote sites to colocation facilities at a small fraction of the cost of MPLS and with 10 to 20 times as much bandwidth to each site. With such dramatic changes in cost and bandwidth, combined with server virtualization technology to reduce the computing footprint, it makes enormous sense to position more internal facing services at these locations. In addition, security functions such as Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems can be centralized to reduce complexity at each site by inexpensively back-hauling Internet traffic to a small number of colocation facilities worldwide using APN.

Keith Morris - Talari | October 28, 2009 1:04 PM | Reply

APN continually monitors all of the paths between every location in the network and directs customer traffic away from congested or bad paths, sub-second. Since it uses diverse sources of connectivity via different Service Providers, it will thus naturally and automatically detect and avoid connectivity outage or severe degradation as the result of an attack.

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