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What is SASE? A cloud service that marries SD-WAN with security

Network World

Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that rolls software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security into a cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved efficiency and security, and to provide appropriate bandwidth per application.

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Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.”

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SASE success: Avoid confusion and embrace a single-vendor solution

CIO Business Intelligence

SASE supports multiple secure access use cases—such as private applications, cloud applications, and SaaS applications—with flexible connectivity options across any user, branch, campus, microbranch location. A SASE solution should empower customers with the flexibility to manage their solution across the cloud and on-premises.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises that pushed in early to the cloud fared far better than their competition, Grant Thornton chief among them. But the benefits of buying in early to cloud-based productivity services didn’t stop there for Grant Thornton. So, Swift signed on before the official launch of Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC roughly one year ago.

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Making self-service Network slice-as-a-Service a commercial reality

TM Forum

A new Catalyst project is all about demonstrating a faster and leaner way to commercialize and implement 5G network slices that can be deployed and assured with a very high level of automation and cloud native experience. The Catalyst, 5G slicing as a service for B2B2X over convergent cloud central offices. Open Digital Architecture.

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

The rise in CSPs moving services to the cloud has exacerbated this trend as the spending they make with cloud service providers is on a usage basis in an as-a-service model. The same is true of some of the cloud-native software that CSPs now regard as essential for moving to a techco model.

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In 2018, Telecom and Networking are Vital (Again)

The Investing Edge

Companies in optical networking and hardware switches were regularly closing major funding rounds, and Sycamore Networks, Ciena, JDS Uniphase, Cisco and others went public and grew to tremendous market caps. That said, the cloud doesn’t remove the need for a network—the opposite is true.

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