'The idea of fully replacing VPNs with zero-trust network access has been the utopian promise by industry vendors for years,' said Netskope VP Naveen Palavalli

'We need certain radio base stations for private networks, different price ranges,' CEO Hans Vestberg said

TeleGeography found MPLS and access loops connecting to MPLS points of presence make up 60% of the market for large multinational enterprise WANs

The service provider win comes as Versa is recognized as one of just three unified secure access service edge vendors

Updates include improved application on-ramp support, enhanced telemetry, and support for more SSE vendors

The low-profile WiFi-6 router is imbued with Palo Alto Networks' security stack and now functions as a secure access service edge gateway

Platform adds secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and digital experience monitoring to Axis' zero-trust network access platform

Netconductor is a new feature within Aruba Central that promises to automate the creation and provisioning of security policy across complex network fabrics

Skyhigh remains focused on the red hot security service edge market, where it retains a leadership position, according to Gartner.

Channel partners are at the heart of the network giant's subscription-services push

Cisco's recent cloud and colocation partnerships are the foundation of a grander play leveraging ThousandEyes to shape SD-WAN routing policy.

Google said it intends to activate at least 15 zones across major U.S. cities during the next few years

The full-stack observability platform ties together ThousandEye's network monitoring and AppDynamics application performance monitoring capabilities

The company anticipates many employees will continue to work remotely even after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides

The goal is to build a repeatable platform that will foster a healthier ecosystem for virtualized and open radio access networks

Strategically, the acquisition stands to improve Aruba's standing in the crowded and highly competitive SD-WAN market

Fortinet celebrated a strong Q4 by announcing a partnership with colocation provider Equinix and launching its smallest SD-WAN appliance

Cisco announced it had 20,000 SD-WAN customers spread across its Viptela and Meraki SD-WAN platforms

Gartner's latest WAN Edge Magic Quadrant report has VMware and Silver Peak leading that market in 2019, while Cisco and Riverbed have slipped

MEF unveiled the first standardized definition for SD-WAN

Despite touting the advanced nature of its factory and the fact that it will be 'operational in early 2020,' Ericsson has not yet said where that factory will be

The vendor last year said it would open a software development center and ASIC design center in Austin, Texas

The move is the latest step in broader roll out of DNA and software subscription models

Talari inherited its WAN optimization technology by acquiring an unknown vendor