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What is a network router? How AI networking driving its evolution

Network World

At its most basic level, the definition of a router is a device that connects networks to each other, forwarding data packets from one location to another until they reach their destination. Digital content is delivered across the enterprise network and the global internet in the form of packets. What is a network router?

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Return on investment for unified communications

Spearline Testing

Return on Investment: Unified Communications (UC) providers must ensure that their resources are being used efficiently. Importance of Unified Communications: Ofcom, the UK's communication regulator reported a 17% decline in the volume of calls made in recent years.

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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Network World

In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources. In response to these realities, Gartner coined a new term, secure service edge (SSE), which is essentially SASE minus SD-WAN , the network access part of the equation.

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CRM connectivity to digital phone networks to improve

IT Toolbox

The overlap between CRM systems and unified communications networks is about to get a major upgrade via a new partnership. Digerati says customers migrating

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO Business Intelligence

SaaS application management tools, which identify all SaaS apps purchased and used by the organization. They can also identify redundant applications or licenses. Network detection and response (NDR) technology, which creates profiles of all devices that it monitors on the network.

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IDG Contributor Network: Implementing secure WANs in the cloud age

Network World

Over the past few years most organizations have significantly increased their reliance on the Internet, primarily due to the outsourcing of utility applications like email, unified communications, ERP, CRM, etc. to SaaS providers. This is due to the fact that direct access at every branch introduces compliance issues.

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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO Business Intelligence

Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that includes infrastructure and applications outside of centralized, dedicated, and cloud datacenters located as close as necessary to where data is generated and consumed. Managing and orchestrating the resources flow between multiple devices, infrastructure and network at the edge.