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How Zero Trust is supposed to look

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the last few years, it has become more and more apparent that the status quo for networking and security is no longer viable. Endlessly extending hub-and-spoke networks to more remote users, branch offices, and cloud apps increases risk, harms the user experience, and is prohibitively complex and expensive.

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Amazon reveals a secret about its Project Kuiper satellites: They’re using laser links

GeekWire

“With optical inter-satellite links across our satellite constellation, Project Kuiper will effectively operate as a mesh network in space,” Rajeev Badyal, Project Kuiper’s vice president of technology, said today in a news release. “This sounds roughly comparable to the capability demonstrated by Kuiper.”

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Order management at the heart of modern service operations

TM Forum

This changed during the initial rollouts of network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN), which created new service orchestration possibilities, raising the question of how the next generation of OM functions will support them. . Service orchestration centric. Based on standards. Based on standards.

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Zero Trust Security for NIS2 compliance: What you need to know

CIO Business Intelligence

Over 100,00 organizations are expected to be impacted by Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) cybersecurity standards that European Union (EU) member states must implement by October 2024. [i] Zero Trust network security offers cybersecurity benefits vs. traditional perimeter-based network security models.

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Telcos’ IT strategies for vertical enterprise revenues

TM Forum

As we enter the 5G B2B era we are approaching the point at which new technological changes are brought about in the network and in operational and business support systems (OSS/BSS). Autonomous network management and orchestration. Multi-access edge computing (MEC) and edge cloud. Service level focus.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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CSPs make advances in assuring critical services

TM Forum

Service assurance, a key component of customer experience management (CEM), addresses how services - and the networks and applications supporting them - perform for customers. The maturity model helps define the path to this level of control from customer, service and network points of view.

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