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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 31, 2023

Legacy network shortcomings led to the rapid growth of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). This next-generation technology enables a more agile network and provides high-performance access to cloud applications for users on-premises and off-premises. This reduces latency. They are not equally effective solutions.

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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

JULY 11, 2022

Customers want to be able to transfer money to anyone, anywhere; get an answer instantly regarding their loan application; and have access to their deposits right away, with no hold on their funds. SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security.

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Network World

MARCH 7, 2023

The company has added a feature to its Secure Private Access that ties SASE resources together with SD-WAN -based applications through a Fortinet SD-WAN hub located in a nearby point-of-presence (PoP). To read this article in full, please click here

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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 3, 2024

AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization. It’s particularly well-suited for applications that require rapid data transfer, such as scientific computing, financial modeling and video rendering.

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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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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

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 Marvis VNA for Data Center is a central dashboard for customers to see and manage campus, branch, and data center resources. version of the Apstra software.

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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 20, 2024

Our acquisitions left us with a fragmented network comprising several WANs and dozens of VPN solutions, making management, monitoring, and policy implementation extremely challenging. The shift to ZPA was seamless, and our remote employees could access the resources they needed to do their jobs without the cumbersome and risky connections.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

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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Network World

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A CASB is used to help secure access to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. The new CASB capability is directly integrated into the Aryaka platform in a bid to enable organizations to have more control and visibility over network traffic in and out of cloud applications.

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

Edge computing will play a “pivotal role” in the deployment of AI applications, according to research firm IDC , which expects worldwide spending on edge computing to reach $232 billion in 2024, an increase of 15.4% Traditional applications are centered in a company’s data center or cloud.

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Network World

AUGUST 8, 2024

Its authors note in the paper that “WAN bandwidth is never too broad — and the speed of light stubbornly constant. Such systems provide a standard interface to the resources, an interface that mediates between users’ needs, budgets and system goals.”

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

Hypershield support for AMD Pensando DPUs and Intel IPUs Cisco added support for AMD Pensando DPUs to its new AI-based HyperShield , a self-upgrading security fabric that’s designed to protect distributed applications, devices and data. The company also extended its AI-powered cloud insights program.

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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).

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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 22, 2024

One in five (21%) organizations surveyed are currently using multiple, separate management systems when managing their campus, branch, WAN, data center, and multicloud domains, according to the report, while 39% are leveraging a platform architecture across some networking domains.

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Network World

JANUARY 16, 2025

SASE essentially is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and several security functionalities into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some switches can operate on Layer 3, and some routers can perform switching tasks, but in general switches operate on the LAN, and routers typically connect LANs to the Internet and other routers on wide-area networks (WAN). These networks utilize Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to send and receive data from other LANs and WANs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

It started with the “Starbucks problem” where employees, partners, and customers could access corporate resources completely outside of the corporate network. SWG and CASB cover general internet and specific application access, while DEM enables IT teams to see the network and application experience through the eyes of the user.

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Network World

JULY 24, 2024

SSE – secure service edge – is a cloud-based way to deliver secure access to corporate systems, SaaS applications, and the Internet in general. The five elements of SASE are CASB, secure web gateway, ZTNA, firewall as a service, and integrated SD-WAN. SSE is essentially SASE minus SD-WAN, the network access part of the equation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 18, 2022

The WAN architecture must cater to the needs of office and remote workers with parity in terms of routing policies, security profile, and management of the WAN.” . “COVID-19 has accelerated a trend toward a massively distributed enterprise moving network functionality to the edge of the network,” IDC analysts advise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

Zero trust eliminates these issues, allowing every branch or employee to serve as an independent entity while enabling secure access only to the specific resources each person or device requires. While this approach worked well when applications and data were centralized, it became increasingly inefficient as workloads shifted to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

This digital transformation requires businesses to bring together data, applications, and users in a secure way—across digital and hybrid environments that are distributed, complex, and expanding. The shift to the public cloud from private data centers has been swift and sweeping, and cloud-based applications are the new standard.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

The pandemic also exposed the limitations of virtual private networks, which enable remote access to secure computing resources. Even more alarming was when frustrated users disconnected from the VPN entirely to log in to their SaaS applications, thus bypassing any of the security controls and increasing the overall threat surface.

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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.

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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. An AI-based Radio Resource Management package is purpose built for Wi-Fi 7 to automate channel/power/multi-link operation. What’s going on with Wi-Fi 7?

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This Catalyst aims to help communication service providers (CSPs) find practical business models to support applications that need edge compute. It offers a service catalogue to manage SD-WAN service provision, edge compute and partner-provided applications. Agnostic approach.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

Enabling a leading manufacturer to streamline global operations comdivision works with customers of all sizes, across multiple industries, delivering solutions that range from cloud infrastructure, management, and automation to digital workspaces, data center virtualization, software-defined networking (SD-WAN), and more. Cloud Computing

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 10, 2022

These common areas require robust, ubiquitous Wi-Fi to support an increased appetite for bandwidth-hungry, low-latency business applications such as video conferencing and Wi-Fi calling. As a key business tool and an enabler of a successful hybrid workplace, a modern, flexible network should provide: .

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2023

It can automate tasks such as deploying a new distributed application for users in the home and office. For example, with a cloud-managed SD-WAN, a company can establish connectivity and security in about an hour. With a traditional siloed approach, those same steps could take NetOps, DevOps, and SecOps teams days.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). But even with all the hype, most considered SASE as something to put into practice in the future. What is SASE?

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