IT Toolbox

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A wide area network (WAN) is a connected collection of telecommunication networks distributed across a large geographic area that allows the component networks to exchange data within the group. This article discusses types of WAN, the architecture components of a WAN, and ten best practices for WAN implementation.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

One area that merits attention is software-defined WAN or SD-WAN. Along with the rise of SD-WAN is the growing use of edge devices, which are now targeted by threat actors. SD-WAN entails using multiple connections, which results in more potential attack points for hackers.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Secure access service edge (SASE) architecture rolls networking and security into a cloud service, making it easier for enterprises to provide simple, secure access to corporate resources, but it’s still in its infancy. To read this article in full, please click here

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Secure access service edge ( SASE ) is a network architecture that rolls SD-WAN and security into a single, centrally managed cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved security, and better performance.

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Network World

JULY 27, 2020

READ about SD-WAN : How to buy SD-WAN technology: Key questions to consider when selecting a supplier • How to pick an off-site data-backup method • SD-Branch: What it is and why you’ll need it • What are the options for security SD-WAN? To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

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. The CNaaS technology tends to use public cloud-managed architectures.” CNaaS is for the most part a subset of public cloud-managed LAN,” Morgan said.

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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. When networking and network security requirements are managed by separate IT teams independently and in parallel, do you achieve the best architecture for digital transformation?

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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). Cost savings and ROI: SD-WAN routes traffic efficiently over multiple channels—including existing MPLS circuits and the public internet via LTE, broadband, and 5G. This reduces latency. They are not equally effective solutions.

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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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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 31, 2025

At a high level, NaaS requires a scalable cloud-native architecture thats flexible, incorporates a high degree of automation, and makes great use of AI and machine learning (ML) to facilitate self-healing, streamline management, and boost observability. It can be used to deliver new network models such as secure access service edge ( SASE ).

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

These companies tried various combinations of routers, wide area network (WAN) optimization, security, Wi-Fi, switching, and voice over IP (VoIP). Over the last decade and a half, networking vendors have been using various methods to bundle wired, wireless, voice over IP, and security products into a solution sale.

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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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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 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

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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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Network World

JULY 12, 2023

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. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

JANUARY 28, 2020

Similarly, a model known as SD-Branch is providing network and security functionality at the WAN edge on a single platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

To answer this, we need to look at the major shifts reshaping the workplace and the network architectures that support it. The Foundation of the Caf-Like Branch: Zero-Trust Architecture At the heart of the caf-like branch is a technological evolution thats been years in the makingzero-trust security architecture.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

The research, released this week, analyzes the networking challenges, IT and business priorities, architectural maturity, and investment strategies of 2,052 IT professionals across 10 global industries. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

AI networking is specific to the network itself, covering domains including multi-cloud software, wired and wireless LAN, data center switching, SD-WAN and managed network services (MNS). It’s critically important to select the right architecture for your enterprise to ensure the best outcomes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Enterprise IT groups struggling with this complexity can transform their environments through new cloud-based networking architectures that stress simplicity across multi-environment connections, while also providing additional flexibility that can help reduce overall costs.

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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.

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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. Moreover, the simplicity of Zero Trust SD-WAN made it easier for our IT team to monitor and control all branch connections from a single management console.

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Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

Each data center offers customers a range of SASE capabilities including cloud firewalls, secure web gateway (SWG), inline cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access (ZTNA), SD-WAN , secure service edge (SSE), and threat protection.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

SASE Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that rolls software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security into a cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved efficiency and security, and to provide appropriate bandwidth per application. standards for communications.

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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). Aryaka accomplishes this with its OnePASS Architecture.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Some even say it is replacing legacy network and security architectures. Drew Robb, writing for TechRepublic Premium, lays out what it is, how it fits within the security and networking landscape, whether it is replacing SD-WAN, its benefits, its challenges, and how to implement.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

By: Nav Chander , Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing. SASE, or the Secure Access Services Edge framework, is the term Gartner created to explain the convergence of WAN and network security functions into a single, cloud-delivered model. However, a robust SD-WAN is critical to creating an effective SASE framework.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

Cisco Security Cloud Control A new AI-native management architecture, Security Cloud Control, is also on tap. Within the Security Cloud, Cisco added the 1200 Secure Firewall 1200 Series, which combines advanced security features and SD-WAN connectivity in a single appliance, Patel said.

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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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Network World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Plaza said that the PDEM feature is designed to seamlessly integrate with Netskope’s SASE architecture. The SASE architecture is all about bringing the idea of security and the network together,” he said. Going a step further, as part of a complete SASE architecture, Netskope can also manage the experience.

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Network World

MAY 20, 2024

In particular, a network team was more likely to swap tool vendors if it was struggling to monitor the health and performance of the cloud points of presence where SASE vendors host their security functionality.

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