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Generative AI set to reshape SD-WAN market

Network World

There are baseline security and connectivity requirements for any SD-WAN service, and then there are optional, emerging product capabilities that indicate how the market is maturing and customer requirements are expanding. There’s a trend toward AI capabilities that enable networking decisions to be made with little or no human intervention.

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Cisco security upgrades strengthen access control, risk analysis

Network World

The company also enhanced its SASE offering by expanding its SD-WAN integration options. Specifically, Cisco added more intelligence to its Duo access-protection software and introduced a new application called Business Risk Observability that can help enterprises measure the impact of security risks on their core applications.

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Campus NaaS market set for growth with startups leading the charge

Network World

It’s a service that delivers LAN equipment to enterprises and excludes the WAN and any cloud/storage services, Siân Morgan, research director at Dell’Oro Group, told Network World. Not surprisingly, the startups tend to agree with Morgan’s analysis. Campus NaaS, or CNaaS, is part of the larger NaaS market.

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What is AI networking? How it automates your infrastructure (but faces challenges)

Network World

For day 2, AI can be used to allocate resources, identify and quickly address (and predict) problems in the network, centralize problem identification, automate recommendation and response, resolve lower-level support issues and reduce trouble ticket false positives through confirm-reject analysis, among other capabilities.

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Cisco sounds warning on 3 critical security patches for DNA Center

Network World

Cisco DNA Center controls access through policies using Software-Defined Access, automatically provision through Cisco DNA Automation, virtualize devices through Cisco Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and lower security risks through segmentation and Encrypted Traffic Analysis. More about SD-WAN.

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US Justice Department sues to block HPE’s $14 billion Juniper buy

Network World

Marvis can detect, describe and help fix myriad network problems, including persistently failing wired or wireless clients, bad cables, access-point coverage holes, problematic WAN links, and insufficient radio-frequency capacity. networking infrastructure.

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Fortinet targets branch offices with upgraded firewalls

Network World

Three new boxes in the FortiGate G Series portfolio the 70G, 50G, and 30G include integrated firewall, intrusion prevention, malware and ransomware protection, SD-WAN, and switching capabilities, all of which can be managed via the vendors FortiManager centralized management platform.

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