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Private 5G Will Transform Healthcare

CIO Business Intelligence

This approach also enables far more sophisticated visibility into the entire LAN and, where applicable, WAN. When the LAN is stretched too thin. And yet LANs can be stretched too far, when patients are moved to areas that never before needed LAN access.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, convergence is happening with SASE, which converges cloud-delivered security and networking, as well as Secure SD-WAN, zero trust network access (ZTNA), network access control (NAC), secure access points, and secure switches. We predict that the convergence of networking and security will continue to expand to more areas.

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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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