Why Graphiant?

Why Graphiant?

Graphiant is my sixth startup. Fortunately, four of my previous ventures proved successful: Nile, Viptela, Timetra, and Fore Systems. The first three were leadership roles, where I helped early-stage companies transform into thriving ones. Sacrifice, hard work, and...
Graphiant Delivers the Best of MPLS and SD-WAN

Graphiant Delivers the Best of MPLS and SD-WAN

We had it pretty good when MPLS came to market. It was fast, secure, and reliable. But it could have been better, and it was expensive. So, we developed SDWAN to allow us to use inexpensive public transport. Nice and affordable. Unfortunately, we lost the fast,...
Wild Horses

Wild Horses

When I retired three years ago, I didn’t really know what would come next. But I did know it wouldn’t be a C-level role in another tech start-up. After a long career of helping companies like Cisco change the world, I had “been there, done that.” It would take wild...
Legacy license models in networking are broken.

Legacy license models in networking are broken.

Whether you use a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), secure access service edge (SASE), or even good old multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), the requirement to buy “feature” tiers and bandwidth or throughput tiers and hardware within these license types is...
How did we go from SD-WAN to SASE to SSE?

How did we go from SD-WAN to SASE to SSE?

A decade ago, enterprise branch offices had a primary connection (usually MPLS) to the data center and other internal sites. Some large or high-value locations utilized multiple connections or backup links during outages. Then Viptela introduced the software-defined...