SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
Understand the network behind Taiwan’s own backbone
Vendor targets SMBs with ‘instant’ partner provisioning
ISG says German firms are modernizing to meet sovereignty needs
ETM expands on Arista's VeloCloud estate with SASE germination
More moves for both parties
Calls the integration 'an operational mandate'
The latest test involves Aliro and zerothird
Analysys Mason predicts market opportunities
Connect service brings SD-WAN and SASE via satellite to power Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and HPE services
The updates include new AI data center networking, routing, agentic AIOps, and security systems targeting distributed AI-driven environments
The new service uses the SIM connection itself as the foundation for both connectivity and security
It's designed to give security teams a unified operational view of both access risk and cloud posture risk
The product launch also comes as growth across the broader private wireless WAN space slowed during the second half of 2025
The service will be available through AT&T Business’s broader SD-WAN portfolio and offered to customers worldwide
And VeloCloud is still being integrated
'We've done more in six months than, for example, Cisco Meraki has done in over 13 years to bring those together,' HPE's Jeff Aaron claims
The extender is positioned as a native part of its SD-WAN platform
“We think SD-WAN has to go away, it'll be replaced with zero-trust SD-WAN," Jay Chaudhry said.
The deal “will allow our customers to further replace VPNs beyond apps and networks and into infrastructure,” Cloudflare's Nitin Rao said
WillJam Ventures is now the majority owner of LevelBlue, with AT&T retaining a minority ownership stake and board representation in the new entity
'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
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
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