SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
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News - Connectivity, Industry
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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Zscaler CEO details edge over large security firms and niche SASE rivals
“We think SD-WAN has to go away, it'll be replaced with zero-trust SD-WAN," Jay Chaudhry said.
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Verizon joins AT&T’s 5G satellite orbit, extends coverage to hard-to-reach areas
Verizon is committing $100 million to ride AST SpaceMobile's satellite plans
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T-Mobile buys struggling rival UScellular, looks to boost private 5G business
UScellular has attempted to stem its consumer connection losses by focusing on the more stable enterprise space
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Akamai to acquire Noname for $450M to reduce API security threats
The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2024.
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AT&T Cybersecurity becomes a separate business, rebranded as LevelBlue
WillJam Ventures is now the majority owner of LevelBlue, with AT&T retaining a minority ownership stake and board representation in the new entity
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Mavenir scores $100M to pad open RAN efforts
The funding round was led by its largest shareholder Siris, 'along with investment from two highly strategic ecosystem partners,' the vendor added
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SD-WAN a sliver of large enterprise WAN market
TeleGeography found MPLS and access loops connecting to MPLS points of presence make up 60% of the market for large multinational enterprise WANs
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Versa SASE slides into S-Net Communications
The service provider win comes as Versa is recognized as one of just three unified secure access service edge vendors
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Palo Alto Networks doubles down on WFH security with SASE gateway
The low-profile WiFi-6 router is imbued with Palo Alto Networks' security stack and now functions as a secure access service edge gateway
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McAfee's SASE Biz Gets Respun as Skyhigh Security
Skyhigh remains focused on the red hot security service edge market, where it retains a leadership position, according to Gartner.
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Cisco puts MSPs at heart of NaaS push
Channel partners are at the heart of the network giant's subscription-services push
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Cisco looks to ThousandEyes for WAN-on-demand strategy
Cisco's recent cloud and colocation partnerships are the foundation of a grander play leveraging ThousandEyes to shape SD-WAN routing policy.
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AT&T 5G edge shimmers on Google Cloud, leaves AWS on-prem
Google said it intends to activate at least 15 zones across major U.S. cities during the next few years
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Cisco melds ThousandEyes, AppDynamics for full-stack observability
The full-stack observability platform ties together ThousandEye's network monitoring and AppDynamics application performance monitoring capabilities
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Masergy brings SD-WAN, SASE home
The company anticipates many employees will continue to work remotely even after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides
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HPE swallows Silver Peak in $925M bid to bolster SD-WAN
Strategically, the acquisition stands to improve Aruba's standing in the crowded and highly competitive SD-WAN market
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Fortinet caps big Q4 with Equinix SD-WAN deal, small hardware
Fortinet celebrated a strong Q4 by announcing a partnership with colocation provider Equinix and launching its smallest SD-WAN appliance
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Fortinet leapfrogs Cisco with 21,000 SD-WAN customers
Cisco announced it had 20,000 SD-WAN customers spread across its Viptela and Meraki SD-WAN platforms
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VMware, Silver Peak lead SD-WAN pack; Cisco, Riverbedo lose ground
Gartner's latest WAN Edge Magic Quadrant report has VMware and Silver Peak leading that market in 2019, while Cisco and Riverbed have slipped
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Cisco expands DNA, software subscription to wireless management
The move is the latest step in broader roll out of DNA and software subscription models
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Ericsson hints at tighter re-org focus on telecom, networks
Cisco's plans to give Ericsson 'space' hints at vendor's current struggles
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Juniper to lay off 570 and drop that Riverbed idea
Juniper to cut 6% of company and will also drop its ADC ambitions as CEO Shaygan
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Open Networking Summit: Apr 17 top 5 highlights
In contrast to Google's experience, top SDN startups Nicira and BigSwitch both warned of limitations in the useful domain of SDN applications