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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise targets IoT, industrial networks with private 5G package

Network World

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has partnered with Celona to offer a turnkey private 5G package for industrial or IoT networks. The ALE Private 5G service includes technology from across ALEs platforms, including ruggedized OmniSwitch hardware, OmniSwitch LAN, and OmniAccess Stellar WLAN software for local and wide area connectivity.

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Campus NaaS market set for growth with startups leading the charge

Network World

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. CNaaS is for the most part a subset of public cloud-managed LAN,” Morgan said. Campus NaaS, or CNaaS, is part of the larger NaaS market.

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Cisco, NTT partner to simplify private 5G connectivity

Network World

Cisco and NTT Data are extending their partnership to offer customers more streamlined options for deploying private 5G services for enterprise connectivity. For example they support a managed private 5G package that uses Intel hardware to integrate private 5G into their preexisting LAN/WAN/cloud infrastructures.

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802.1X: What you need to know about this LAN-authentication standard

Network World

When devics on enterprise LANs need to connect to other devices, they need a standard method for identifying each other to ensure they are communicating with the device they want to, and that's what 802.1x is a standard that defines how to provide authentication for devices that connect with other devices on local area networks (LANs).

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AI, cybersecurity drive IT investments and lead skill shortages for 2025

Network World

AI and cybersecurity are driving enterprise tech investments and at the same time exposing the talent gaps that IT teams face. 2024 gave leaders the opportunity to pause, take a breath and see what kind of investment they need to make for best use scenarios in terms of talent and technology.”

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Security startup Airgap Networks brings telco technologies to the LAN

Network World

Ritesh Agrawal, CEO of cybersecurity startup Airgap Networks, noticed that many of the attacks that compromise enterprise networks fail to penetrate telco and service provider networks. To read this article in full, please click here

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What is NaaS? Providers, delivery models, and benefits explained

Network World

Network as a service (NaaS) is a cloud service model thats designed to let enterprise IT professionals order network infrastructure components from a menu of options, have them configured to fit their business needs, and have the whole thing delivered, running and managed in a matter of hours instead of weeks. But thats beginning to change.

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