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SD-WAN to gain AI-driven deployment, management capabilities

Network World

AI is set to make its mark on SD-WAN technology. For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. In addition, AI workloads have distinctive requirements that will influence SD-WAN connectivity choices.

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Cisco tool makes it easier to meld SD-WAN, security domains

Network World

Cisco has upgraded two of its core software programs to make it easier for enterprise customers to secure data-center and WAN -connected resources.

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AI networking draws a crowd at ONUG summit

Network World

The challenges of AI on WAN connectivity With the immense hardware and bandwidth requirements of AI, the challenges for AI connectivity across the WAN are numerous. Connecting these workloads across a traditional WAN is not feasible or cost-effective.

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Rethinking the WAN: Zero Trust network access can play a bigger role

Network World

The WAN as initially conceived was about one simple job: the WAN was the network that “connects my sites to each other.” That is, the network connecting users in corporate sites to corporate IT resources in other corporate sites or perhaps colocation facilities. It was all inside-to-inside traffic.

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Alkira expands NaaS platform with ZTNA capabilities

Network World

The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella. A user can directly terminate into a cloud exchange point and have the same kind of visibility, governance and control in terms of what resources that user can access on the network.”

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Juniper adds AI cloud services to its Apstra data center software

Network World

Juniper Networks continues to fill out its core AI AI-Native Networking Platform, this time with a focus on its Apstra data center software. 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

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Cisco launches intelligent Wi-Fi 7 access points

Network World

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, Matt MacPherson, wireless CTO at Cisco, told Network World in a recent interview.

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