2026 Applications WAN 
Network World
DECEMBER 11, 2024
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. As years passed new technologies like secure access service edge (SASE) and generative artificial intelligence (genAI) burst onto the scene, and SD-WAN has fallen out of the industry limelight.
Network World
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025. What is SASE?
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CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 20, 2023
Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center. They rely on centralized security performed by backhauling traffic through the corporate data center, which impairs application performance and makes them expensive and inefficient.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2023
Today’s next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), which must protect all areas of enterprise, can filter layer 7 applications, block malicious attachments and links, detect known threats and device vulnerabilities, apply patching, prevent DDoS attacks, and provide web filtering for direct internet access.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 4, 2023
In fact, in a recent IDC study , 60% of CIOs stated they are already planning to modify their operating model to manage value, agility, and risk by 2026. It can automate tasks such as deploying a new distributed application for users in the home and office. When you have improved end-to-end visibility, you can react more quickly.
Network World
JUNE 24, 2024
By 2026, at least 45% of enterprises will use managed SASE services—an increase of three times from early 2023,” Gartner said in its report, How t o Choose Between Managed SASE Services. Cato applies optimization and acceleration to all traffic going through the backbone to enhance application performance and the user experience.
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