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Not-So-Hidden Costs Are Lurking in the LAN: Insist on Operational and Licensing Simplicity

Tech Republic Security

The wired and wireless local area network (LAN) forms the backbone of IT. It enables next-generation applications and can boost user productivity. As such, the LAN not only greatly impacts user experience, but is also the beginning or end of many security events.

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Six Building Blocks of a Next-Generation Software-Defined Campus LAN

Tech Republic

Digital acceleration, defined by initiatives that include ubiquitous connectivity, migration to the cloud, and investment in next-generation networking technologies, has driven many advancements in the IT industry. Wired and wireless networks are no exceptions.

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Getting a foothold in the 5G applications ecosystem

TM Forum

Application developers have a critical role to play in generating innovative uses of 5G networks, as T-Mobile in the US made clear with its recent. Yet there has been no stampede by communications service providers (CSPs) to repeat the attempts made during the early days of 4G to create an application ecosystem.

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5 best practices for making smart-building LANs more secure

Network World

Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.]. We also know from news stories that a hacker could use a successful smart building intrusion to sneak into other business applications, potentially compromising them and critical company information. Maybe, if we’re not very careful.

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Meta Networks builds user security into its Network-as-a-Service

Network World

Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is growing in popularity and availability for those organizations that don’t want to host their own LAN or WAN, or that want to complement or replace their traditional network with something far easier to manage.

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Digital ecosystems: setting new standards for integration

TM Forum

Networks become more complex, and carrier-to-carrier interoperability becomes more difficult. Moreover, as CSPs deploy 5G networks and edge computing they need to consider how to serve customers whose geographical footprints do not match their own.

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The Broadband Networks

IT Toolbox

Applications for SMDS include LAN interconnection; high-speed, remote database access; packet audio and video; resource sharing by educational institutions; image transfer; and teleradiology.

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