Network World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cisco has broadened the scope of Cisco SD-WAN software by growing its reach and security, and expanding its support for deploying multi-region WAN fabric. Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

MARCH 8, 2021

Latency and reliability concerns set car rental company Sixt on a path to rearchitect its WAN. That led the global company, which has locations in more than 100 countries, to become an early adopter of the network-security architecture dubbed secure access service edge ( SASE ) by research firm Gartner. Tech Spotlight: Security.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As modern networking deployments across the cloud and edge become increasingly complex, it can be a non-trivial exercise for teams to get proper visibility. IP Fabric is updating its automated network assurance platform to version 7.0 with the goal of helping organizations to answer the challenges of hybrid networking environments.

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Network World

APRIL 11, 2023

The transition from software-defined WAN ( SD-WAN ) to secure access service edge ( SASE ) is proving to be difficult for many enterprises, according to new research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). To read this article in full, please click here

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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.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2020

Cisco has issued five warnings about security weaknesses in its SD-WAN offerings, three of them on the high-end of the vulnerability scale.

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Network World

APRIL 12, 2022

Cisco has tweaked its flagship SD-WAN software package to increase customer application flexibility and improve visibility into the performance of distributed resources. The company announced Cisco SD-WAN release 17.8, SD-WAN buyers guide: Key questions to ask vendors. SD-WAN buyers guide: Key questions to ask vendors.

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Network World

JANUARY 25, 2019

Cisco has patched security vulnerabilities in four packages of SD-WAN Solution software that address buffer overflow, arbitrary file override and privilege access weaknesses that could have led to denial-of-service attacks or access problems.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

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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Network World

AUGUST 3, 2023

Fortinet has added new features to its SD-WAN software and a next-generation firewall series that promise to help customers better monitor and protect distributed enterprise resources.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Startups with campus-focused network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings are positioned to capture a substantial portion of the greater NaaS market in the coming years, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. Nile, Meter and Ramen Networks all have plans to continue to accelerate growth moving forward as well. “We

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Network World

MAY 5, 2022

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cisco's Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS). NFVIS is Linux-based infrastructure software designed to help enterprises and service providers to deploy virtualized network functions, such as a virtual router, firewall and WAN acceleration, Cisco stated.

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Network World

JANUARY 25, 2019

One option is to implement a software-defined WAN ( SD-WAN ). I recently talked with Hamza Seqqat, director of solutions architecture at Apcela , to get his take on how SD-WAN affects security strategy. In our discussion, he outlined four areas where SD-WAN offers new security benefits.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Juniper Networks is advancing the software for its AI-Native Networking Platform to help enterprise customers better manage and support AI in their data centers. Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is aimed at unifying its campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine.

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Network World

JUNE 14, 2019

Mirai – the software that has hijacked hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices to launch massive DDoS attacks – now goes beyond recruiting just IoT products; it also includes code that seeks to exploit a vulnerability in corporate SD-WAN gear.

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Network World

MAY 9, 2019

Cisco has added support for Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) to its million-plus ISR/ASR edge routers, in an effort to reinforce branch and core network malware protection at across the SD-WAN. Cisco last year added its Viptela SD-WAN technology to the IOS XE version 16.9.1 More about SD-WAN.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has started to ride off into the sunset (which is long overdue). For some time, you might see some vendors wandering around aimlessly, hoping to sell you a SD-WAN solution, but for the most part, the networking market is moving on. I thought the SD-WAN acronym […].

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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

JANUARY 3, 2017

There certainly was a ton of hype in Software Defined-WAN arena in 2016 but to be fair there was a lot of actual deployment of technology and services as well. In December Gartner wrote that spending on SD-WAN products will rise from $129 million in 2016 to $1.24 billion in 2020.

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2025

Infoblox and Google Cloud announced a partnership that powers new products from each company that they say will help enterprise organizations accelerate their cloud adoption with advanced networking and security capabilities. Reduce on-premises hardware and virtualization software for critical network services with a cloud-delivered option.

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Network World

JUNE 14, 2019

Mirai – the software that has hijacked hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices to launch massive DDoS attacks – now goes beyond recruiting just IoT products; it also includes code that seeks to exploit a vulnerability in corporate SD-WAN gear. More about SD-WAN To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

JUNE 25, 2024

It said that Hosted Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), offered in partnership with unified SASE platform vendor Versa Networks, “converges software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) and secure service edge (SSE) capabilities in a single pass technology.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Called software-defined perimeter (SDP), it is based on the relatively simple idea of throwing a virtual barrier around servers, routers, printers, and other enterprise network components. The goal of SDP is to protect networks behind a flexible, software-based perimeter. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In many ways, networking is a mature, stable industry, based on established technologies like Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. But networking vendors are constantly innovating to keep pace with skyrocketing volumes of traffic that need to move securely and reliably across complex multicloud environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

One area that merits attention is software-defined WAN or SD-WAN. This technology is gaining popularity as it provides organizations several benefits, including simplifying network management, enhanced application performance, and operational cost savings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Multiple business imperatives are driving CIOs to re-examine and re-invent their approach to network infrastructure, including the mission critical backbone that supports highly complex, bandwidth-intensive, multi-cloud environments. The service also enables enterprises to migrate their SD-WAN fabrics to the cloud.

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IT Toolbox

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Increasingly used in large network setups, SD-WAN uses web-based tunnels, firewall software, and virtual technologies to connect remote endpoints. The post What Is SD-WAN (Software-Defined WAN)? Definition, Solutions, and Benefits appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

Today’s enterprises need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments than they ever have, Cisco concludes in its Global Networking Trends Report. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

Fortinet has made available a new release of its core FortiOS software that includes features the vendor says will help enterprises more tightly meld security and networking controls. FortiOS 7.2, FortiOS is the vendor’s operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to fill out its core AI AI-Native Networking Platform, this time with a focus on its Apstra data center software. version of the Apstra software. In addition, Apstra performs regular network checks to safeguard configurations.

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Network World

AUGUST 12, 2019

Secure software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has become one of the hottest new technologies, with some reports claiming that 85% of companies are actively considering SD-WAN to improve cloud-based application performance, replace expensive and inflexible fixed WAN connections, and increase security.

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Network World

MAY 20, 2024

Nearly 74% of IT organizations are at least somewhat likely to replace a network management tool over the next two years, according to new research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). “I Tools aren’t as “sticky“ as they once were For a variety of reasons, network management tools have historically been sticky in IT organizations.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to expand its AI technology in an effort to ease network management tasks and simplify customers’ network operations. At the core of the platform is the firm’s cloud-based, natural-language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology.

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Network World

APRIL 11, 2017

Fortinet has rolled out a new version of its FortiOS operating system that gives customers the ability to manage security capabilities across their cloud assets and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) environments. With FortiOS 5.6, With FortiOS 5.6,

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Secure access service edge (SASE) architecture rolls networking and security into a cloud service, making it easier for enterprises to provide simple, secure access to corporate resources, but it’s still in its infancy. To read this article in full, please click here

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