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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO

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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Juniper Networks acquires Boston-area AI SD-WAN startup 128 Technology for $450M

TechCrunch

With 128 Technology, the company gets more AI SD-WAN technology. SD-WAN is short for software-defined wide area networks, which means networks that cover a wide geographical area such as satellite offices, rather than a network in a defined space.

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Securing the ever-evolving hybrid work environment

CIO

The WAN architecture must cater to the needs of office and remote workers with parity in terms of routing policies, security profile, and management of the WAN.” . “COVID-19 has accelerated a trend toward a massively distributed enterprise moving network functionality to the edge of the network,” IDC analysts advise.

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3 business benefits of stronger security using Zero Trust principles

CIO

The solution also needs to improve the prevention of both known and unknown threats as well as make and automate across-the-board zero trust policies to defend both OT assets and the network. investments because they deal with the security barriers that tend to slow down IoT, 5G, and SD-WAN adoption.

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5 reasons to move to a network platform

CIO

It’s a real, readily accessible approach that integrates software, security, policy, and open APIs with an intuitive user interface, advanced telemetry, and automation. On top of that, how do you build a resilient network that can protect your people, systems, and data from external threats? The answer is the network platform.

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The Top 3 Benefits of Next-Generation SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

Why Next-Generation SD-WAN Is Critical to Avoid Failure in Mainstream Deployments. The SD-WAN market is at a critical inflection point. We are past the early adopters phase and mainstream enterprises are now looking to deploy SD-WAN. Legacy SD-WAN. Enabling “anywhere work” by extending SD-WAN benefits to teleworkers.

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Where No (Enterprise) WAN Has Gone Before

Kentik

Enterprise WAN in 2023 Enterprise networking in 2023 is very much the same. I recently had the privilege of attending the WAN and AWS Summits in London. Not many years ago, all my WAN projects were IPsec tunnels to a headend, dual hub DMVPN designs, coordinating MPLS handoffs from last mile providers, etc. Of a flat universe.

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