Network World

JANUARY 25, 2019

One option is to implement a software-defined WAN ( SD-WAN ). I recently talked with Hamza Seqqat, director of solutions architecture at Apcela , to get his take on how SD-WAN affects security strategy. In our discussion, he outlined four areas where SD-WAN offers new security benefits.

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2025

Infoblox and Google Cloud announced a partnership that powers new products from each company that they say will help enterprise organizations accelerate their cloud adoption with advanced networking and security capabilities. Gupta said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Its especially attractive as an alternative to MPLS, promising to do for wide-area backbones what the cloud did for compute, storage, and application development. Out with the old, in with the new Historically, enterprises relied on a MPLS for much of their wide-area connectivity requirements.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Palo Altos Prisma SASE platform combines SD-WAN with cloud-based security capabilities, including secure access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ). The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0,

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Its “backbone as a service” gives customers the ability to connect branch locations, cloud workloads and applications through Alkira’s fabric. The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella. Read more about NaaS Can NaaS mitigate network skills gaps?

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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 21, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. Paying a premium to backhaul traffic to a central data center made sense when that was where all applications lived. Enter SD-WAN: cheaper than MPLS and designed for cloud-first traffic patterns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

One area that merits attention is software-defined WAN or SD-WAN. This technology is gaining popularity as it provides organizations several benefits, including simplifying network management, enhanced application performance, and operational cost savings. SD-WAN is neither inherently secure nor naturally prone to attacks.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Many of the categories and terms in this years Best of Networking (BENNY) technology awards didnt even exist a decade ago: secure access service edge (SASE), SD-WAN, networking as a service (NaaS), and network detection and response (NDR). Read on to meet the winners and finalists, or download the PDF edition below.

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Network World

JULY 11, 2023

Enterprises over the past several years have embraced SD-WAN for many reasons, including the flexibility of cloud architecture, enhanced security, centralized management of distributed locations, and improved application availability and performance.

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Network World

MARCH 31, 2020

With an eye towards significantly bolstering its edge networking offerings, Palo Alto has entered into an agreement to buy cloud-based SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix for $420 million in cash. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Hybrid and multicloud initiatives will continue to shape enterprise IT in 2023, and the impact on data-center networking will be felt across key areas including security, management, and operations. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

The cloud-based Prisma SASE 5G package melds network security functions including secure access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ) with wide area network (WAN) capabilities such as SD-WAN.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Limited WAN Bandwidth. In a 2014 Next-Generation WAN Survey , 68 percent of respondents said demand for WAN bandwidth will increase over the next year. As the number of connected devices grows—from smartphones to tablets, and more—this strain on WAN bandwidth is inevitable. BYOD Will Fail to Live up to the Hype.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Cisco has strengthened some of its key security software packages with an eye toward better protecting distributed enterprise resources. The company also enhanced its SASE offering by expanding its SD-WAN integration options.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

By: Nav Chander , Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Today, enterprise IT leaders are facing the reality that a hybrid work environment is the new normal as we transition from a post-pandemic world. A key component of a SASE framework is SD-WAN.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Juniper is joining the Wi-Fi 7 march with new switches and access points that promise higher throughput, lower latency and extended range for enterprise wireless applications. Juniper joins a group of vendors offering Wi-Fi 7 products, however general enterprise use of Wi-Fi 7 is still likely a couple years off.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When deployed properly, SASE, which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security via SSE, enables all users and devices, regardless of location, to securely access an organization’s hybrid network. However, it’s still important to assess how well SD-WAN and SSE are connected within a SASE solution.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Cato Networks today introduced digital experience monitoring (DEM) capabilities that will augment the company’s cloud SASE platform with application traffic and network performance data that IT operations teams need to optimize end-user experiences. The platform relies on a combination of real-time and synthetic monitoring.

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Network World

AUGUST 8, 2017

Wrapping up an SD-WAN workshop session with a client last week, I reflected on how rapidly the branch office WAN connectivity and management model is changing. Some great opportunities are emerging for enterprise IT teams that can materially impact how the network is designed, paid for and managed. Here are some thoughts: 1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 billion in 2024.

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Network World

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Now it’s exciting to see Wi-Fi 7’s “deterministic” features come to fruition, because that means Wi-Fi can be used for next-generation networking requirements, including distributed data centers, SD-WAN and more, said Matt MacPherson, wireless CTO at Cisco. “One Wi-Fi 7 is changing the game. “Wi-Fi

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

Download our editors’ PDF SASE and SSE enterprise buyer’s guide today! Gartner had put its finger on a new set of challenges that enterprise IT faced as employees shifted to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and applications migrated to the cloud. As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before the start of the Covid epidemic, a traditional WAN architecture with centralized security worked well for Village Roadshow. When the pandemic led the company to transition to a hybrid workforce, with most people working from home or from a remote site , it prompted Village Roadshow to rethink its network and security approach.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization. 5G 5G is fast cellular wireless technology for enterprise IoT, IIoT, and phones that can boost wireless throughput by a factor of 10.

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Network World

JULY 12, 2023

The market for managed security services is shifting as enterprises weigh their requirements for cloud-based security capabilities and vendors refine their feature sets and product integrations. To read this article in full, please click here

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the realm of Wide Area Networks (WANs), traditional routers have long been the backbone of network infrastructure, albeit with their limitations. However, a transformative technology known as Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is making significant waves in India and globally.

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Network World

JANUARY 25, 2019

One option is to implement a software-defined WAN ( SD-WAN ). I recently talked with Hamza Seqqat, director of solutions architecture at Apcela , to get his take on how SD-WAN affects security strategy. In our discussion, he outlined four areas where SD-WAN offers new security benefits.

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The vendor’s new Secure AI-Native Edge offering and cloud-based Security Assurance service are designed to deliver a cohesive view of network health, performance, and security metrics with a goal of resolving problems quickly and centrally enforcing enterprise security policies. version of Juniper Apstra.

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Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

The Cato LAN NGFW offers application-aware segmentation from the Cato Edge Socket, providing distributed networks with the same level of protection for LAN traffic as for WAN and internet-bound traffic, the company stated. Operating at Layer 7, it allows for detailed control over LAN applications such as RDP and SSH, among others.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

New to the platform is Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, a suite of cloud-based, AI-enabled applications for the data center, released along with the new 5.0 support which application flows,” wrote Ben Baker, senior director, cloud and data center marketing and business analysis at Juniper, in blog post. “App/Service

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Network World

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Aryaka continues to build out its SASE platform, adding new capabilities aimed at enhancing security and simplifying the adoption process for enterprises that want to consolidate their network and security deployments. A CASB is used to help secure access to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. SASE for AI?

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

LAS VEGAS – Cisco put AI front and center at its Live customer conclave this week, touting new networking, management and security products, along with partnerships and investments it expects will drive enterprise AI deployments. “AI The company also extended its AI-powered cloud insights program.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Read more about SASE Cato Networks extends SASE platform with digital experience monitoring : Cato DEM gives IT teams visibility into application traffic and tools for optimizing network performance issues. Why is the transition from SD-WAN to SASE so painful?

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The platform works by gathering telemetry and user state data from Juniper’s routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and applications to offer actionable insights and automated workflows for proactive issue detection and resolution, Juniper says.

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Network World

MAY 4, 2018

It’s been a few months since VMware closed its acquisition of VeloCloud, a prominent SD-WAN provider. The result is that many enterprises are in a position where their applications are everywhere, and their data is everywhere. This has profound implications on the network that needs to support all of this.

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MAY 22, 2024

Today’s enterprises need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments than they ever have, Cisco concludes in its Global Networking Trends Report. Managing and controlling such widely distributed systems are core challenges enterprise network customers face, Davidson stated.

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