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What is Gateway in Computer Network – Types, Examples, Functions

The Crazy Programmer

Gateways are capable of being used for LAN and WAN network connections. These devices can be the firewall, router, server, and other devices used for the networking and allow the flow of the data from one device to another device through their network. Web Application Firewalls. Functions of Gateway. Conclusion.

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RMON: A Closer Look at Remote Network Monitoring

Kaseya

Network monitoring is critical to ensure stable, performant IT network operation. Typically, network administrators use network management tools that monitor the activity and performance of network devices and network traffic. Network engineers and admins use these tools to optimize network performance. What is RMON?

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

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. Performance takes center stage As enterprises converge networking and security, what used to be separate appliances are consolidated into a single solution.

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How to Monitor Packet Loss and Latency in the Cloud

Kentik

But before they migrated or adopted a few SaaS applications, they knew in the back of their minds that monitoring performance would be difficult. Firewall configured to drop packets (all ICMP is dropped). Performing a TCP traceroute to IP addresses and host names is just the beginning. Bad hardware (the switch or router port).

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Strategies for Managing Network Traffic from a Remote Workforce

Kentik

This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN). Another strategy is to increase visibility into the traffic flowing between the network edge and VPN gateways and optimize performance. The richest data sources are from the VPN devices or firewalls.

Network 69
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Talking Cloud and a Dose of Magic at Fortinet Accelerate 2019

Firemon

Fortinet is claiming a 10X performance increase with the FortiGate 100F SD-WAN ASIC Appliance. There was much more to explore, the Fortinet product portfolio covers a full spectrum of solutions, from VoIP systems, video surveillance, Next-Generation Firewalls, SIEM, email, IoT, wireless LAN, and much more.

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Kentik Detect for FinServ Networks: Real-World Use Cases

Kentik

One of the more obvious, yet powerful uses for Kentik Detect is a dashboard that provides a comprehensive overview of network traffic across the entire infrastructure: LAN / WAN, internal data centers and public cloud. Application performance problems are often blamed on the network unless ops teams can provide data to demonstrate otherwise.

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