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Cisco, Google Cloud offer enterprises new way to connect SD-WANs

Network World

Cisco and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to integrate Ciscos SD-WAN with the cloud providers fully managed Cloud WAN service. That lets customers use existing Cisco SD-WAN security policies and controls in the Google Cloud, Cisco stated. The Cloud WAN service is designed to simplify those challenges.

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What is SASE? A cloud service that marries SD-WAN with security

Network World

Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that rolls software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security into a cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved efficiency and security, and to provide appropriate bandwidth per application. To read this article in full, please click here

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Juniper tunes AI to find and fix SD-WAN, WAN routing problems

Network World

Juniper Networks continues to deliver on its overarching enterprise AI plans, this time adding features that will help customers proactively spot and fix WAN routing, SD-WAN and SASE problems. Now operators can resolve SD-WAN issues before users even connect.”

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Fortinet consolidates SD-WAN and SASE management

Network World

Tighter integration between Fortinet's SASE and SD-WAN offerings is among the new features enabled by the latest version of the company's core operating system. FortiOS version 7.4 also includes better automation across its Security Fabric environment, and improved management features. To read this article in full, please click here

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Cisco adds AMP to SD-WAN for ISR/ASR routers

Network World

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. Cisco bought Viptela in 2017. .

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Cisco warns of critical vulnerability in virtualized network software

Network World

The worst of the vulnerabilities could let an attacker escape from the guest virtual machine ( VM ) to the host machine, Cisco disclosed. Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cisco's Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS). To read this article in full, please click here

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Why the cloud will never eat the data center

Network World

Companies are already committed to a virtual form of networking for their WAN services, based on VPN s or SD-WAN , rather than building their own WANs from pipes and routers. That was a big step, so what could be happening to make WANs even more virtual, to the point where the cloud could subsume them?