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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella. Network as a service comes in five distinct flavors depending on whether it’s offered by hardware vendors, telcos, cloud providers, muticloud vendors, or WAN-transport carriers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. Enter SD-WAN: cheaper than MPLS and designed for cloud-first traffic patterns. The days of MPLS backbones, VPN-heavy environments, and SD-WAN vulnerabilities are numbered. Sounds promising, right?

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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). No single hardware product had all the […].

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

NaaS can provide an alternative consumption model for a broad range of network elements, including wired and wireless LANs, WANs , and VPNs , as well as branch, data center , edge, multicloud , and hybrid-cloud environments. Managed service: Subscription-based hardware plus a managed service to operate it.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

Fortinet is also jumping on the generative AI bandwagon with enhancements to its FortiAI technology, which is getting updated to help manage and orchestrate SD-WAN infrastructure. The latest integration as part of Unified SASE is with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. What is sovereign SASE and why is it needed?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security. An SD-WAN overlays traditional or hybrid WAN infrastructures and locates the software or hardware nodes at each location and in the cloud. Organizations must also ensure their data is protected and compliant.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2022

has 300 new features including AI support to help stop network threats more quickly, sandboxing to help fight ransomware threats, and improved SD-WAN , branch, and edge orchestration. FortiOS is the vendor’s operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components. FortiOS 7.2, How to choose an edge gateway.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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. Enterprises can choose an appliance from a single vendor or install hardware-agnostic hyperconvergence software on white-box servers.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 1, 2013

Riverbed announced that it has extended its market leading Steelhead wide area network (WAN) optimization product family with the addition of a new hardware appliance and upgrades to its Steelhead software. Networking riverbed WAN'

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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). Optimize IT service management (ITSM) by handling basic troubleshooting (level 1 and level 2 support) such as password resets or simple hardware glitches.

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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

JUNE 4, 2024

Cisco Hypershield, a cloud hyperscaler security system announced in April as an extension to the Cisco Security Cloud, now supports AMD’s Pensando Data Processing Units (DPUs), a hardware platform designed to accelerate AI workloads. This is why Cisco is now focused on innovating across every layer of the hardware and software stack.

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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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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 25, 2022

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN has caught the attention of industry analysts. Our unique Security-Driven Networking solution consolidates security and networking in one FortiGate hardware appliance or virtual machine. FortiGate appliances deliver the world’s only ASIC-accelerated secure SD-WAN solutions.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In its place, enterprises are looking for a cloud-based service that features one-click provisioning, on-demand scalability, consumption-based pricing, a self-service portal, and, best of all, no hardware to own or manage. The service also enables enterprises to migrate their SD-WAN fabrics to the cloud.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Marvis can detect and describe countless network problems, including persistently failing wired or wireless clients, bad cables, access-point coverage issues, and problematic WAN links. The idea is to allow accurate root cause analysis of potential user experience issues, whether in the WAN, wireless, or a client, Matta stated.

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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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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. These two fundamental constraints force globally distributed systems to carefully replicate data close to where they are processed or served.

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Network World

JUNE 20, 2024

Essential skills that CompTIA includes as key parts of the program include: IP addressing Connecting networks Wireless standards and technologies Network Availability Securing and hardening networks Software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) are also covered with the Network+ cert.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

Three years ago, Gartner coined the term Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to describe an architecture that combines software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) with a portfolio of cloud-based security tools —including secure web gateway (SWG) cloud access security brokers (CASB), and zero-trust network access (ZTNA).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

These IT pros typically have a bachelor’s degree in computer science and should be knowledgeable in LAN/WAN protocol, software, and hardware. This position involves a lot of time spent troubleshooting, and network and computer systems administrators typically need to be on call in case of an emergency or failure.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Marvis can detect and describe countless network problems, including persistently failing wired or wireless clients, bad cables, access-point coverage holes, problematic WAN links, and insufficient radio-frequency capacity. Juniper has now extended its platform with a package of new features dubbed Operations for AI (Ops4AI).

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Network World

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Sovereign SASE goes a step further, with Versas SASE software running on customer-owned hardware and environments. The company provides the software and recommends the hardware, but the customer maintains full control over the deployment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global coverage: SASE solutions can offer cloud-delivered security services through SASE locations, which are physical data center locations with the hardware needed to complete security checks and ensure connectivity. Because of this, it’s critical to choose a SASE vendor that has a strong SASE location network.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 10, 2022

Similarly, Aruba Central provides network administrators visibility and management for the whole network—wired, wireless, WAN, branch, and remote offices—all from an AI-powered single pane of glass with deep visibility into total network and client health. Network as a service for greater flexibility.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. Only a few machines or key servers as well as possible a WAN optimizer would reside at the remote office. Uptime and resiliency. This is where cloud computing can really help.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

They require an ecosystem of hardware and software providers. We at Broadcom are good at building chips; someone else is very good at building physical hardware around the chips; and someone else is good at building the software. At the core of an ecosystem Even so, today’s modern networks need more than a networking chip.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

Each service pack includes the required switching hardware, licenses, management software (HPE Aruba Networking Central), and support components, along with Customer Experience Management (CEM), all bundled in a 3- or- 5-year monthly subscription.

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Spearline Testing

AUGUST 5, 2020

This makes for significant cost reductions and feature-packed services that don't require expensive hardware equipment. Jitter happens when the RTP packet stream traverses the network (LAN, WAN, or Internet) because it has to share network capacity with other data. Hardware capacity on source/destination.

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Spearline Testing

AUGUST 18, 2020

Bad Hardware: Internet networks typically consist of a number of distinct hardware pieces, at least a modem and a router, which often have switches. Bad hardware, including an outdated modem, a broken Ethernet cable, or a malfunctioning router, will quickly contribute to issues with call quality. Recognizing Packet Loss.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Telstra wanted to integrate established service domains, like wireless and transport, while enabling the easy introduction of newer domains, such as cloud and SD-WAN. shipping costs and hardware complications. Virtualization and consolidation of networks and services reduced time-to-market and delivery times for multi-domain services.

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Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Some of the recent highlights: Viptela for SD-WAN , Meraki for wireless and cloud management, Sourcefire for IDS, Duo Security for authentication and identity management , ThousandEyes for network intelligence and digital experience monitoring, and AppDynamics for observability. Says Bhagavath, “It’s single digits and that’s okay.”

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

AT&T taps Cisco fixed 5G wireless gateways for WAN service May 30, 2024 : Cisco Meraki has rolled out 5G fixed wireless access gateways , and AT&T said it will use them to offer a new service for business branch offices. Cisco, Nvidia target secure AI with expanded partnership Feb.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The new Steelhead appliance also enables organizations with larger data workloads to increase the amount of data it can lock within the appliance cache, increasing the ability of branch offices with larger data sets to maintain productivity, even during WAN outages. Riverbed Accelerates RiOS WAN Optimization. Featured Cloud Articles.

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