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Palo Alto expands secure private 5G network partnerships

Network World

And its definitely not enough to protect enterprise, government or industrial businesses, wrote Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager at Palo Alto Networks, in a blog about the news. To truly safeguard enterprise, government and industrial operations, organizations need a holistic 5G security package.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware. Network as a service (NaaS) : NaaS is a cloud-based service that provides network infrastructure, such as routers, switches and firewalls, as a service.

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Wi-Fi HaLow: Hands on with AsiaRF’s IoT network gateway

Network World

HaLow’s sweet spot is industrial IoT, building automation, security, access control, utility smart meters and intelligent grids. Here’s our hand-on assessment of working with AsiaRF’s Wi-Fi mesh gateway, which features a star topology that enables 8,000 connections for industrial IoT use cases. It measures about 5 inches x 3.5

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

But for Koch Industries, a $115 billion global conglomerate that has acquired five companies in two years, including Infor for $13 billion in 2020, connecting those acquisitions’ networks to its own sprawling network has been a challenge of another magnitude. Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions, Koch Industries Koch Industries.

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The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023 — and how to hire for them

CIO Business Intelligence

Recruiting in the tech industry remains strong, according to the report. These IT pros typically have a bachelor’s degree in computer science and should be knowledgeable in LAN/WAN protocol, software, and hardware. The survey also reveals the average salaries for each role based on experience.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). Today, the service provider houses over 1,425 virtual servers running on 70 industrystandard Egenera servers, 370 terabytes of storage and 1,250 virtualized firewalls.