Heard of Talari before?

[dlots]

Have ya'll heard of Talari before?

The idea is that you get a bunch of crappy home connections (Cable, ISDN, etc) and Talari constantly monitors them constantly and send your traffic over the best link, so you have a connection that kinda sucks due to loss?  FTP and stuff that can handle packet loss goes that way, another link that doesn't have much bandwidth but low latency/jitter? Voip for that link.  So you get good reliability and generally more bandwidth for less money than an enterprise connection

They sound REALLY cool, I wish I had something I could do with them.

[deanwebb]

We had a project with Talari not too long ago. I think Riverbed has an offering in this area.

[dlots]

I think Talari is a river-bed spin-off but I could be wrong very easily

[that1guy15]

I have but have not looked into them or this whole SD-WAN space. Seems like a pretty interesting concept.

[config t]

Does this sound like SDN to anyone else? I haven't read anything about that black magic yet.

[that1guy15]

Does this sound like SDN to anyone else? I haven't read anything about that black magic yet.

It kinda has that same feel. I dont lump it in with everything else SDN because it really dosent fit.

Basically the concept is a device (controller?) is dropping in at the edge of your network and all remote sites. All WAN, MPLS, dial-up and Internet circuits are connected directly to this device. This device then controllers traffic flow, load-balancing and fail-over auto-magically.

This really isn't anything new, as we have had this ability in our routers for decades. But what I like about SD-WAN solutions is they simplify these complexities from an administration/management perspective.

The more I read and see in this space the more Im looking forward to getting my hands on some of the gear.

[routerdork]

There are talks about us going to Talari though I haven't been a part of the webinars yet.

[NetworkGroover]

Does this sound like SDN to anyone else? I haven't read anything about that black magic yet.

It kinda has that same feel. I dont lump it in with everything else SDN because it really dosent fit.

Basically the concept is a device (controller?) is dropping in at the edge of your network and all remote sites. All WAN, MPLS, dial-up and Internet circuits are connected directly to this device. This device then controllers traffic flow, load-balancing and fail-over auto-magically.

This really isn't anything new, as we have had this ability in our routers for decades. But what I like about SD-WAN solutions is they simplify these complexities from an administration/management perspective.

The more I read and see in this space the more Im looking forward to getting my hands on some of the gear.

A controller driving traffic flow, LB, and failover?  Sounds like SDN to me. ;P

[config t]

The more I read and see in this space the more Im looking forward to getting my hands on some of the gear.

Me too. I used to have an irrational fear of SDN being a disruptive technology that would cost network people their jobs. Now it's just another new sexy.

[NetworkGroover]

The more I read and see in this space the more Im looking forward to getting my hands on some of the gear.

Me too. I used to have an irrational fear of SDN being a disruptive technology that would cost network people their jobs. Now it's just another new sexy.

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