The Defense Information Systems Agency is on the forefront of federal network development and is considering how Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) can help it provide network capabilities across the Defense establishment.
As technical director of DISA’s Infrastructure Directorate Bryon Doyle said, his job is to have an oversight of the organization’s architecture. That means outreach to both vendors and customers to see how services, Defense Department agencies and other federal partners can best use the environment.
Doyle said DISA started with legacy technologies but as it modernizes into the future, the agency wants to mimic the commercial environment in terms of capacity, routing optimization and other core functions.
“So as we get capacity, there’s demand, right? Demand’s never going to go away,” Doyle said on Federal Monthly Insights – Network Modernization and SD-WAN. Core technologies and fiber optic transmission are helpful in this area, he said. “There’s a notion on availability, right? So we want to make sure we’re super available. If we’re doing things like cloud computing, where the network is tethered, we become incredibly critical to the cloud environment.”
Cybersecurity is absolutely critical, he said. That means an emphasis on supply chain risk management and security of the internal backbone, as well as on customer connections. The challenge comes when the act of putting all those pieces together “exceeds what people can do on the keyboard.”
“So in the past, folks would type commands into routers or optical switches or telephone switches. But in this converged environment, we really can’t do that without a helper systems, right?” Doyle said on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. “And tho ..
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