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AT&T taps Cisco fixed 5G wireless gateways for WAN service

Network World

Cellular gateways transpose a cellular signal into wired WAN Ethernet connectivity, enabling high-speed, always-on cellular network connectivity for business-critical operations, wrote Pratik S. Desai, product marketing lead for 5G fixed wireless access and WAN application assurance for SD-WANs at Cisco, in a blog about the new devices.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

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. For example, 5G is now used in more situations, such as in factories and for drone operations. And NGFWs aren’t done evolving.

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The Role of SD-WAN in Securing the Expanding Network Perimeter

CIO Business Intelligence

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 billion in 2024. Key considerations.

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IDG Contributor Network: Can SD-WANs meet standards requirements?

Network World

I find SD-WANs to be facing a similar battle. It’s inconceivable to many that an SD-WAN could replace MPLS. At one recent client, a chemical company, the team was looking to transition from MPLS to SD-WAN. CFATS professionals assume MPLS and firewalls to be mandated by the standard. MPLS being the de facto transport.

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IT pros need to weigh in on that ‘sassy’ security model

Network World

Similarly, a model known as SD-Branch is providing network and security functionality at the WAN edge on a single platform.

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Enabling Digital Transformation, Securely

CIO Business Intelligence

SASE is SD-WAN-as-a-service and security-as-a-service. Offering more flexibility at low cost, software-defined networking, or SD-WAN, abstracts network control from the connectivity layer and enables real-time monitoring, reporting, and analytics across network nodes. Let’s look at each: Software-defined wide area networking.

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Best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO Business Intelligence

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). But even with all the hype, most considered SASE as something to put into practice in the future. What is SASE?

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