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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

But there are a number of groundbreaking women who have been highly successful in networking, and were highlighting 20 of them (in alphabetical order). Fun fact: Co-founded the Silicon Valley CIO Womens Network and is a member of the Girls in Tech Board of Directors.

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Cisco IoT wireless access points hit by severe command injection flaw

Network World

The technology underpinning URWB came to Cisco in 2020 when it acquired Italian company Fluidmesh Networks. However, it’s not clear how easy it would be for an attacker to target the vulnerability directly, given that this type of access point is normally isolated on a dedicated IoT network segment.

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Optical networking challenges gain attention as AI networking demands rise

Network World

As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies is growing as well. But the use of fiber optics in networks is not without its challenges.

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How the Dark Web enables access to corporate networks

Tech Republic Security

The number of ads selling access to corporate networks has continued to increase from 2019 to 2020 and into 2021, says Positive Technologies.

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Rethinking the WAN: Zero Trust network access can play a bigger role

Network World

The WAN as initially conceived was about one simple job: the WAN was the network that “connects my sites to each other.” That is, the network connecting users in corporate sites to corporate IT resources in other corporate sites or perhaps colocation facilities. It was all inside-to-inside traffic.

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Is SD-WAN sill relevant in today’s technology landscape?

Network World

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) emerged in 2014 as a way to help organizations embrace the cloud and quickly became a hot commodity. Gartner predicts that 70% of enterprises will have implemented SD-WANs by 2026, up from around 45% in 2021. As a result, SD-WAN deployments must also grow to keep business humming.

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Notre Dame scores big with Wi-Fi 6E stadium upgrade

Network World

And now, thanks to a major network expansion, theres no shortage of high-bandwidth streaming. Designed for a maximum capacity of 40Gbps, the 6E network triples the bandwidth of the prior network. 28, the Wi-Fi was able to comfortably support a network load that hit 22.37 In the teams first game on Sept.

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