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Cisco warns of attacks on network routers, firewalls

Network World

Cisco’s Talos security intelligence group issued a warning today about an uptick in highly sophisticated attacks on network infrastructure including routers and firewalls. That exploit targeted an SNMP vulnerability in Cisco routers that the vendor patched in 2017. To read this article in full, please click here

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Wi-Fi HaLow: Hands on with AsiaRF’s IoT network gateway

Network World

The HaLow standard was approved in September 2016 and published in May 2017. AsiaRF Wi-Fi HaLow IoT network gateway AsiaRF’s dual-band Wi-Fi mesh gateway (ARFHL-AP) is primarily designed for industrial IoT connectivity. The use of HaLow is transparent to the rest of the devices on the network.

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IDG Contributor Network: Will networks and security converge in 2017?

Network World

Zeus Kerravala looked into his crystal bowl for the networking space, and Taylor Armeriding did the same for security. We went rummaging through our fortune cookies and came up with this Yoda-like one for 2017: Security shall networking become. Could networking replace security (or vice versa) in 2017?

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Reflections from HPE Discover 2017

Forrester IT

From June 4 - 6, 2017, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise hosted an Analyst Summit in hot Las Vegas as part of their HPE Discover 2017 event. I have seen HP split into both HPE and HP Inc creating two powerhouses and then again spin-merge their services teams into CSC (now DXC) and HPE Software into Micro Focus finalized by September 1, 2017.

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Reflections On Huawei’s Analyst Summit 2017 — Past, Present, And Future

Forrester IT

In April 2017, Huawei hosted its annual Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China. Huawei's financial year 2016 was remarkable as the group grew revenues by 32% to US$ 75 billion, making Huawei the largest global network solutions vendor by revenues, way ahead of its traditional competitors Cisco, Nokia, and Ericsson. network infrastructure.

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Intent in autonomous networks

TM Forum

The concept of intent in autonomous networks is still very new and often misunderstood. The idea of intent-based networking has been kicking around telecoms since at least 2017, but serious industry conversations of intent as a driver of telecoms operations automation are only now progressing. Why intent is important.

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IT Priorities 2017: Buyers look for network privacy, visibility tools

Computer Weekly

The 2017 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey shows growing interest in network privacy, security and management, but SDN and NFV are still lagging

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