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The deal has the companies initially working to define a strategy that uses the Rakuten Communications Platform and corresponding ecosystem to support Ligado’s L-Band spectrum holdings in the 1.6 GHz band. Read more.

Paragon Automation now serves as the brand name for all of Juniper’s WAN automation products. Read more.

Fortinet gets hit by security flaws; Google Cloud scores a MEC, 5G deal with Telus; and Rakuten blames spectrum for its network performance woes. Stream now.

Over the past 14 years SD-WAN has evolved from wrangling WAN links to including security, quality of service, and artificial intelligence. Read more.

The new product joins Dell’s hybrid cloud service, which is also available through the Cloud Console, and it builds on the instance-based offerings introduced in the fall. Read more.