SASE systems working in tandem with SD-WANs now flourish as a means to achieve successful multicloud implementations.

As we look ahead to 2024, the question on everyone's mind in the industry is whether SASE will continue to be a hot topic in cybersecurity conversations.

“We are very much willing to work with customers to try to find solutions on how they want to use our technology," CEO Michael Glickman said.

“We are looking for partners to bring out latent value in assets that we have," Frontier's Vishal Dixit said.

To get a pulse on the changing security market, we analyzed over 750K pageviews. Our data reveals a major shift in how readers secure their IT infrastructure.

A lot of talk, some action, but still a way to go

With IDC predicting the SD-WAN market will reach $7.5 billion by 2027, SD-WAN remains one of the most important markets in enterprise networking.

“Don’t hold your breath on a true success story in which VMware remains unaltered and its own independent entity," Forrester's Tracy Woo predicts.

Verizon Business is integrating Zebra Technologies devices and software into the carrier’s private 5G and 4G LTE network offering to smooth enterprise adoption.

"There's no way we can deliver that kind of experience for our customers without millimeter wave," Verizon's Joe Russo said.

Carbon Black now operates as an autonomous business unit within Broadcom and no longer reports to VMware, VP and GM Jason Rolleston said.

Today's dispersed networks can be difficult to secure, which makes 5G and the emerging technology known as secure access service edge a strong pairing.

“A lot of what is being driven today is a fair degree of bespoke and the challenge is that this is not scalable," STL Partners' Yesmean Luk said.

The carrier's private 5G network will replace an existing Wi-Fi network at the Norfolk International Terminal.

And more fixed-wireless access traffic is a "good problem to have," CFO Tony Skiadas said.

As companies struggle to articulate AI's value proposition, IT leaders crave meaningful information and resources.

Netskope Next Gen SASE Branch is designed to converge networking, security and management into a unified SASE offering for branch deployments.

Although the open-source service mesh project Linkerd started with Kubernetes, that was never the final destination in mind, William Morgan said.

SDxCentral audience metrics show a rising interest in SD-WAN and SASE and a move from traditional networking vendors to those with a security-centric focus.

New VP Ankur Jain said the hyperscaler remains comfortable as a facilitator for private networks.

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The vendor expects dynamic spectrum sharing will be core to future shared licensed spectrum use.

The cable giant is looking to grow its private networks business in a market it sees as just now starting to gain momentum.

But does the deal also include secure access service edge? Of course it does.