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Cisco talks 2017 SD-WAN predictions

Network World

There certainly was a ton of hype in Software Defined-WAN arena in 2016 but to be fair there was a lot of actual deployment of technology and services as well. In December Gartner wrote that spending on SD-WAN products will rise from $129 million in 2016 to $1.24 billion in 2020.

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Cisco adds AMP to SD-WAN for ISR/ASR routers

Network World

Cisco has added support for Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) to its million-plus ISR/ASR edge routers, in an effort to reinforce branch and core network malware protection at across the SD-WAN. Cisco last year added its Viptela SD-WAN technology to the IOS XE version 16.9.1 Cisco bought Viptela in 2017. . More about SD-WAN.

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Cisco’s acquisition history has shaped its evolution

Network World

Other significant acquisitions by Cisco include AppDynamics in 2017 for application performance monitoring and Acacia Communications in 2021 for optical networking. Also in 2017, Cisco expanded its SD-WAN portfolio with its acquisition of Viptela for $610 million.

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MWC 2017: Standard allows for LoRaWAN roaming

Computer Weekly

A LoRa Alliance draft standard will allow wider collaboration and cross-border use cases for long range WAN IoT network operators by enabling roaming

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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. It has a detachable SMA dipole antenna for the sub-GHz, an Ethernet port for WAN/LAN connection, USB port (for storage or a camera), and a 12V / 1A power input. Uptake was initially slow, with few products certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. inches x 1.2

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Seattle-area Star Wars collectors among group planning museum for film-related memorabilia

GeekWire

They’re joined in the museum effort by three others: Steve Sansweet: The executive chairman and founder of Rancho Obi-Wan, a nonprofit museum located in Petaluma, Calif., He was a GeekWire Geek of the Week back in 2017. north of San Francisco, that opened to the public in 2011.

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How NaaS deployment is shaping up

TM Forum

Telstra is generally acknowledged as the first CSP to implement NaaS, starting at least as far back as 2017, when it lamented that there was no standard way to expose network services. Early examples focus on SD-WAN. And even if in our example all does not go well, any fallout can be handled as a manual exception rather than the rule.

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