Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Cisco is boosting network density support for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the network infrastructure its customers need for cloud architecture, AI workloads and high-performance computing. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 data center switches are a core component of the vendor’s enterprise AI offerings.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Networking skills are evolving to keep pace with broader technology trends, and network pros need to proactively develop new competencies in areas such as AI and automation to stay relevant. From AI and network automation to cloud computing and security, the critical networking skills needed to excel in 2025 are shifting.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A challenge for enterprises that operate large-scale network infrastructure has long been how to maintain performance while updating critical systems. The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is helping to address that challenge with the L3AF project, which is based on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter ) technology.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For network engineers and security leaders tasked with securing modern enterprise environments, the challenge of preventing lateral threat movement is critical. The emergence of IoT and OT devices, which are frequently deployed in factory and branch networks, has further complicated the issue.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

F5 is evolving its core application and load balancing software to help customers secure and manage AI-powered and multicloud workloads. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform combines the companys load balancing and traffic management technology and application and API security capabilities into a single platform.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

a significant update to the open-source distributed cloud platform designed for IoT, 5G, O-RAN and edge computing applications. This latest version introduces substantial improvements to networking capabilities, security features and management tools. The Open Infrastructure Foundation is out with the release of StarlingX 10.0,

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Information Week

JUNE 14, 2024

The rollout of Wi-Fi 6 will enable more devices to work simultaneously on networks. This could drive application development demands to new heights. Are CIOs ready?

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Extreme Networks is bolstering the access control features of its ExtremeCloud Universal Zero Trust Network Access ( ZTNA ) package, targeting customers that want to boost protection across distributed cloud environments. It ties together network, application and device access security from a single cloud-based dashboard.

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Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

SD-WAN which stands for software-defined wide area network has been around for a decade, pitched to enterprises as a way to cut costs and improve WAN flexibility. If network performance issues arise, SD-WAN users can identify and remediate those issues faster through advanced, AI-enhanced automation.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

DPU acceleration unlocks a variety of network and security services such as stateful segmentation, large-scale NAT, IPsec encryption, IDS/IPS, event-based telemetry, and DDoS protection, according to Kevin Wollenweber, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos data center and service provider business.

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Alkira is expanding its namesake network-as-a-service ( NaaS ) platform with new zero trust network access ( ZTNA ) capabilities. Alkira provides a SaaS service for on-demand network infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella.

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Network World

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Physical isolation from IT networks protects OT systems against threats, but it also prevents companies from driving more automation, efficiency, and intelligence into business operations. Why IT/OT convergence is happening Companies want flexibility in how end users and business applications access and interact with OT systems.

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Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

Cato Networks this week introduced its next-generation firewall as part of its secure access service edge (SASE) platform, saying the NGFW would mitigate security vulnerabilities left unpatched by manual efforts. 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

MARCH 3, 2025

Palo Alto Networks is looking to expand the role SASE plays in securing private 5G networks by collaborating with additional partners to offer end-to-end communications protection. 5G speeds can match what is typically available from traditional links but without the need to wait for weeks while the ISP deploys the circuit.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. Support for Cisco ThousandEyes network performance and intelligence platform is built in. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIO is looking to shake up the virtual infrastructure market with its approach to virtualization and software-defined networking. Rather than cobbling together separate components like a hypervisor, storage and networking, VergeOS integrates all of these functions into a single codebase.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

2024 was a banner year for Ethernet , which has been a foundational element of networking for more than 50 years and is poised for more advancements as 2025 kicks off. Rodgers, Ethernet Alliance events & conference chair, told Network World. That is a standard based on the IEEE 802.3cg specification that was finalized in 2019.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

OpenTelemetry, or OTel, addresses a key pain point for network managers who must prevent network outages and maintain high levels of application performance across increasing complex and opaque multi-cloud environments. And traces provide visibility into application layer performance in distributed cloud environments.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The FortiDLP platform provides automated data movement tracking, cloud application monitoring and endpoint protection mechanisms that work both online and offline. Fortinet has had network DLP capabilities in its portfolio before, including Network DLP capabilities integrated into its FortiGate NGFW.

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Network World

AUGUST 30, 2024

Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services. AppDynamics is Cisco’s core application management suite, providing real-time monitoring of application response times, error rates, and resource utilization, among other capabilities.

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Network World

JANUARY 9, 2025

Cybersecurity penetration testing, or pen testing, involves a security assessment in which a security professional acts like a malicious hacker would and simulates a cyberattack on a computer system or network to identify potential vulnerabilities. Pricing for the exam has yet to be determined.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Juniper EX4000 line of access switches is aimed at customers with enterprise branch, remote office and campus networks who want to upgrade their systems with more advanced features than the vendors current line of EX2000/3000 Series boxes.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

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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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The partnership ties Cisco’s networking technologies to NTT Data’s Transatel network. Cisco’s eSIM technology lets devices connect to cellular networks using a digital SIM, eliminating the need for physical SIM cards. NTT Data’s Transatel network spans some 180 countries and is offered with flexible pricing plans, NTT stated.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

These applications require AI-optimized servers, storage, and networking and all the components need to be configured so that they work well together. For example, Cisco unveiled its AI Pods in October, which leverage Nvidia GPUs in servers purpose-built for large-scale AI training, as well as the networking and storage required.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its no secret that more modern approaches to remote access have been usurping VPNs as organizations adapt to the realities of a more distributed workforce, increasingly cloud-based applications, and heightened security threats. Its really access to an individual resource or application instead of a whole network segment.

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Network World

JANUARY 22, 2025

The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. In recent years, organizations have increasingly moved workloads to the cloud, where they have not had the same network visibility. The libpcap library is an open-source tool for network traffic capture.

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Network World

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. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These units support 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and provide hardware acceleration for demanding storage and networking workloads. The Supermicro JBOF replaces the traditional storage CPU and memory subsystem with the BlueField-3 DPU and runs the storage application on the DPU’s 16 Arm cores.

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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

MAY 23, 2024

Gaining firm control over a multicloud network environment can deliver performance, efficiency, and security gains – but it won’t be easy. Managing a multicloud network is a highly demanding task, says Robert Orshaw, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting.

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Network World

JANUARY 22, 2025

Robbins said Cisco is seeing some enterprise customers begin to build applications in the healthcare industry and manufacturing world. Customer service is a real common application. Not only GPUs, CPUs, LPUs, but networking infrastructure, Robbins said. We were talking about contact center.

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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. Why SD-WAN is still critical to the enterprise SD-WAN connects users, applications, and data across locations within a hybrid environment.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Pressure to implement AI plans is on the rise, but the readiness of enterprise networks to handle AI workloads has actually declined over the past year , according to new research from Cisco. Enterprises are updating their infrastructure to prepare for AI, and then they’re preparing for pervasive deployment of AI applications.”

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Fortinet has melded some of its previously available services into an integrated cloud package aimed at helping customers secure applications. Managing application security across multiple environments isn’t easy because each cloud platform, tool, and service introduces new layers of complexity.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But how does an LLM apply to network operations? Network and infrastructure operations startup Selector AI today announced its Network Language Model (NLM) technology, which builds on top of an LLM to help optimize network operations.

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