Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Versa Networks has bumped up its secure access service edge ( SASE ) software with a variety of features, including AI to help customers better manage LAN resources at the edge of their networks.

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Network World

APRIL 28, 2021

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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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

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. What is NaaS?

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

At its most basic level, the definition of a router is a device that connects networks to each other, forwarding data packets from one location to another until they reach their destination. Digital content is delivered across the enterprise network and the global internet in the form of packets. What is a network router?

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

Palo Alto Networks is looking to expand the role SASE plays in securing private 5G networks by collaborating with additional partners to offer end-to-end communications protection. 5G speeds can match what is typically available from traditional links but without the need to wait for weeks while the ISP deploys the circuit.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Cato Networks today introduced digital experience monitoring (DEM) capabilities that will augment the company’s cloud SASE platform with application traffic and network performance data that IT operations teams need to optimize end-user experiences. The platform relies on a combination of real-time and synthetic monitoring.

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Network World

AUGUST 7, 2024

HPE’s Aruba Networks continues to build out its enterprise security portfolio, adding support for behavioral analytics to its threat detection and response platform and moving zero-trust controls to its campus products. The current announcements build on Aruba’s recent enterprise security announcements.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 24, 2022

The rapid growth of personal and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices connecting to enterprise networks has increased the need to have fine-grained control over what is allowed into the network and with what permissions. The post Ensure a Secure LAN Edge for All Devices appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 24, 2022

The wired and wireless local area network (LAN) forms the backbone of IT. As such, the LAN not only greatly impacts user experience, but is also the beginning or end of many security events. Today’s IT administrators need to build their next-generation networks with a focus.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2019

Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is growing in popularity and availability for those organizations that don’t want to host their own LAN or WAN, or that want to complement or replace their traditional network with something far easier to manage.

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Network World

OCTOBER 4, 2018

At that time being a network engineer, I had five floors to be looked after. Having a few virtual LANs (VLANs) per floor was a common design practice in those traditional days. It was for our new chief executive officer. Little did she know that she was about to share her traffic with most others on the first floor.

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Computer Weekly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Copper-based local area networks are increasingly unfit for purpose in a digital enterprise, but passive optical LANs may be a solution. Tech evangelist Paul Ryan, chair of the Association of Passive Optical LAN, explains why

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.]. Smart buildings are surely absolutely powerful in a way; are they absolutely corruptible? Maybe, if we’re not very careful. If corruption means overall bad-ness, then hacking a smart building surely qualifies.

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Network World

OCTOBER 7, 2024

AsiaRF Wi-Fi HaLow IoT network gateway AsiaRF’s dual-band Wi-Fi mesh gateway (ARFHL-AP) is primarily designed for industrial IoT connectivity. AsiaRF says each gateway (priced at $206 per unit) can support over 8,000 stable connections with their innovative star network topology. It measures about 5 inches x 3.5 inches x 1.2

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Network World

JULY 8, 2021

Modern ransomware variants will immediately attempt to identify and execute various operating system vulnerabilities to gain administrative access and spread to the rest of your LAN. To read this article in full, please click here

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 22, 2017

Even though the earliest LANs were of this genre, by 1989 it appeared that they were on the way out. By 1992, however, new life had been breathed into peer-to-peer networking by both Novell and Microsoft, along with the popularity of Artisoft's LANtastic.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 9, 2023

When you think of VPNs, chances are pretty good your thoughts go to the tried and true virtual private networks of old, which made it possible for you to securely connect to your company network (from a remote location) such that your local computer behaved as if it were within the company LAN.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2023

Fortinet continues to enhance its Secure Access Service Edge ( SASE ) package by adding support for microbranches, extending wireless LAN protections, and improving data loss prevention (DLP) and end-user monitoring capabilities. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Department of Justice would move to block HPEs proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks. Its not something that, I think, makes a lot of sense, Juniper CEO Rami Rahim said to Network World. Few would have predicted the U.S. When it happened late last month, the two vendors and many industry watchers were caught off guard.

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 30, 2017

Token Ring) LANs resulting in the capture of a much larger market share." These conclusions were largely based on assumptions, at the time, that growth in the marketplace will come largely in LANs based on international standards. In 1987 it was said, "throughout the 1990s we should anticipate that there will be a growth in 802.3

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IT Toolbox

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

the network system calls then provided under interrupt 21H gave all suppliers of network software the capability to standardize at least some of the access to LAN hardware. Most manufacturers of LAN software had announced or implemented support of NETBIOS for IBM LANs. When DOS was extended in Version 3.1,

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The vendor rolled out new EX Series Ethernet access switches – the EX4400-48MXP and EX4400-48XP – with support for Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 access points and managed by the Juniper Mist cloud, which offers a suite of tools for enterprise wired and wireless network management.

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IT Toolbox

APRIL 28, 2017

The appropriate solution was to have only the connection to the LAN with the LAN gatewayed to the larger network and providing the appropriate terminal emulation.

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IT Toolbox

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

In the past, if we wished to attach some other random LAN to this system, we typically needed a gateway to perform protocol conversion from whatever the LAN was using (assuming that it was not running the same DECnet protocol) to the DECnet protocols.

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IT Toolbox

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The NETwork Basic Input Output System (NET-BIOS) was introduced at the same time IBM announced the PC Network in 1984. The network microcode was the foundation for program control of the IBM LANs; it resides in ROM on the Adapter Card, on diskette, or on the PC's motherboard.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

LAS VEGAS – Cisco put AI front and center at its Live customer conclave this week, touting new networking, management and security products, along with partnerships and investments it expects will drive enterprise AI deployments. “AI Think of the AI evolution as like the cloud transition “on steroids,” Robbins said.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The report “Connected Solutions Are A Catalyst For Tech-Driven Innovation” highlights how technology-driven innovation by telcos and network equipment vendors can help CIOs from outside the telecoms sector with their innovation initiatives.

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Network World

MAY 28, 2024

WPA3 is the latest iteration of the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) standard, succeeding WPA2, which has been the de facto security protocol for wireless networks for nearly two decades. 192-bit security for Enterprise Mode: An optional 192-bit security suite is added for WPA3-Enterprise networks.

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Information Week

JUNE 8, 2023

Developments in network management options open the door to alternative ways that businesses can manage their LANs and data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

Integrating a new network after an acquisition can be a sizable headache for any CIO. Traditionally, to integrate its acquisitions, Koch would flatten the acquired company’s core network, says Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions at Koch. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says. Laying the foundation.

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Network World

MAY 31, 2021

With increasingly mobile workforces, it’s important to effectively backup corporate data that resides on laptops, which requires a unique set of features not found in traditional backup systems used for desktops attached to corporate LANs.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Cisco and Nutanix have significantly expanded their alliance with new management capabilities, AI components and networking extensions for their integrated hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) package aimed at easing edge, data center, and cloud operations. And it addresses the top barrier to GenAI projects being successful,” Kimball said.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Extreme Networks is rolling out an AI-infused networking platform that aims to help enterprise customers integrate, manage and automate a broad range of network and security technologies. Extremes AI Expert technology will let customers pose natural language queries about network issues, for example. Bukhari said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Today, the need for long-term solutions means that hybrid working is one of the top three trends driving network modernization – as reflected in the 2022-23 Global Network Report published by NTT. The burden on the network grows even as some employees start returning to the office. The network was never built for that.

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Tech Republic Cloud

JULY 1, 2020

With just a bit of cobbling together, you can have a networked instance of MS Code up on your LAN.

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Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Revenue in the latest quarter plunging 13% (27% in networking). Is this just a minor hiccup for the dominant player in enterprise networking or something else? Has Cisco gotten too big and unwieldy to compete against innovative disruptors like Arista, Palo Alto Networks, Netskope, Zscaler, and others? Shakeups in the C-suite.

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