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  • The Importance of Structured Cabling for Reliable Network Infrastructure

    In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are facing increasing pressure to balance security and performance for their distributed workforces. The growth of cloud adoption, remote work, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has pushed traditional network architectures to their limits. Enter SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)—a revolutionary approach designed to meet the demands of modern, cloud-centric business environments.

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  • What is SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) and Why Does It Matter?

    In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are facing increasing pressure to balance security and performance for their distributed workforces. The growth of cloud adoption, remote work, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has pushed traditional network architectures to their limits. Enter SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)—a revolutionary approach designed to meet the demands of modern, cloud-centric business environments.

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  • 4 Advantages of Cloud Computing for Businesses

    Following the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud computing has become the go-to model for IT in 2021. The shift to remote work and video conferencing accelerated the move to the cloud, according to IT industry news site ZDNet. This improves business continuity and collaboration as teams operate from home. Many businesses are now investing in cloud computing, and the industry is expected to reach over $300 billion in revenue within the next five years.

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  • Business Continuity Solutions with VMWare

    Unplanned events such as COVID-19 and travel restrictions make it nearly impossible to continue “business as usual.” To ensure your business can continue normal operations, you need to enable your employees to work remotely and maintain productivity, increase connectivity, and provide for continuous, secure access to applications across endpoints. We’re here to help.

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  • The 4 Key Considerations for Extending Your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to Home and Remote Employees

    It’s a challenge not to think of a spreading health crisis when you’re crushed into a crowded train or bus, clutching a germ-infested pole and dodging a nearby cough. As the current crisis develops, enterprise business continuity planning and risk management will lead to millions of enterprise users working full time from home.

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  • How Much Network Lag is Too Much?

    The latency of a network is the amount of time that is needed for data to travel between a sender and a receiver. Even though all computers have some amount of network lag, it can fluctuate from time to time and for a variety of different reasons. The major cause of network latency is the route that is followed by the traffic through the internet servers and other backbone devices.

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  • 5 Reasons Why To Invest In SD-WAN?

    Given how expensive, time consuming, and complicated it is to install, MPLS networks are rapidly being replaced by newer technology that is better and more capable of solving business needs.

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  • WAN Basics for Non-Technical Users

    A WAN connection is generally used for connecting branch offices to a central corporate network or it might also be used to connect the data centers that are located wide apart.

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  • Top 4 reasons why a software defined WAN is the best thing for your Business

    The driving factors behind the growth in adoption of the SDWAN infrastructure has been the decrease in the costs and better management capabilities of the new infrastructure. However, these aren’t the only factors that encourage business enterprises to move from the traditional WAN infrastructure to an advanced network system

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  • Your Right to Choose Your WAN Connectivity and Your Right to Security

    One of the best ways to move forward is to have a security solution that is suited to one’s SDWAN infrastructure. In choosing the right organization to help you with your security needs, you should choose a brand that is a leader in SDWAN and network security.

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  • The Difference Between MPLS and SDWAN

    SDWAN was introduced in the market with an aim to provide the benefits of software defined networking to the traditional hardware-based networking. This was an important upgrade to the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), which is a protocol that allows for efficient network traffic flow between two or more locations

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  • 5G, the IoT and SD-WAN: Glancing Ahead at Networking’s Future

    we have developments going on around the world for the introduction of commercial 5G networks and phones. The introduction of 5G is supposed to change the way we look at network infrastructure. There is going to be a significant difference between the 4G and 5G networks

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  • What Are the Main Drivers of SD-WAN Adoption?

    While most technological innovations are bound to face some amount of misgivings in the initial stage, SDWAN has been an outlier. Ever since its inception, SDWAN has been accepted because of the numerous advantages that it has to offer, namely, savings in the cost, improved performance and simplified management.

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  • Types of SDWAN Deployment Models

    SDWAN simplifies the procedure of network connectivity to various remote offices and branches, providing the needed flexibility, centralized control and monitoring as well as reducing the WAN costs.

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  • What is Digital Transformation, and How Can SD-WAN Help?

    Over the past few years, many organizations have been suffering due to fierce competition from peers, changing business models, alterations in user behavior and digital transformations. While the journey to digital transformation might not be the same for every organization, the collaboration between the Lines of Business (LoBs) and IT must be unyielding

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  • Securing the Cloud Edge with SD-WAN

    SD-WAN enhances the networks by connecting the data centers and cloud resources to the information fabric of a business that is distributed over vast sections. At the intersection of the network, cloud and security, which is referred to as the cloud edge, businesses face several security risks, increased complexity in usage and inconsistent performance of the applications

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  • Drivers of the Growth in SD-WAN Deployments

    The need for fast and secure access to the cloud applications, demand for agility in apps and services. Also, the desire to leverage the internet connectivity is boosting the demand for Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), which has better flexibility and lesser complexities than the traditional WANs.

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  • Why SD-WAN Helps to Keep Up With IoT Sensors

    With the rapid advancements made in the field of Internet of Things, it is expected that companies will spend a majority of their resources on solutions that focus on IoT. It is estimated that the number of internet users would rise to 30 billion by the year 2020 and out of this, nearly 24 billion would be using Internet of Things for their daily activities

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  • How SD-WAN Assures Uptime While Easing Complexity?

    For a global business company, it is a necessity to have an efficient wide area network (WAN) at the workplace. The reason why WANs are very popular is because of their use as an important business tool. WANs make it possible for large organizations to undertake internal communication at a faster rate and with greater efficiency. It also allows customers to enjoy numerous benefits from organizations, which was not possible earlier

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  • How SD-WAN Minimizes the Risk of Data Breach?

    Until recently, before the invention of SD-WAN network, the use of WANs and MPLS connections were at a risk of security breaches. Now, we have the opportunity to add an additional layer of security to prevent our data from security breaches. Most MPLS connected networks grant unrestricted user access to customers, which can be dangerous. In comparison, SD-WANs allow IT to utilize tunneling in order to segment traffic over the network. Also, in order to gain greater amount of protection, companies are fusing security into the SD-WANs.

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  • Why Agile IT Demands a Responsive WAN Edge Infrastructure?

    In this information age, one of our best resources is the data collected from different sources. The digital technologies and networking infrastructure have enabled us to identify customer’s buying trends and patterns, and to design their products and services accordingly, to increase revenue.

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  • What is SD-WAN and how can your organisation benefit from it?

    Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is an overlay connectivity option that functions with the utilization of broadband internet, 4G/LTE or MPLS access. SD-WAN holds a lot of opportunity for enterprises that use cloud computing for enhancing their technological and competitive advantage.

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  • How internet of things can help businesses?

    Internet of Things is changing the way that businesses are run. Companies are investing huge sums of money to develop products that successfully use Internet of Things. Access to such products is easier now than before.

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  • Real life examples of IoT. What can you do with internet of things?

    Even though IoT controls a large part of our life, many of us are unaware about using IoT on a daily basis. Below we highlight a few areas of our life where we use IoT on a regular basis without even thinking about it.

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  • Internet of Things Trends in 2019

    IOT tend to make mundane tasks much easier and this explains the exponential growth in the field of IoT. It can only be expected that IoT will grow to newer heights in 2019 and we will have more and more devices that use IoT on a daily basis.

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  • Internet of Things and how it works?

    The internet of things (IoT) refers to a computing concept that facilitates the idea of various everyday physical objects being linked to the internet and being able to identify these objects with other devices

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  • What is Software-Defined WAN or SD-WAN ?

    The software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN or SDWAN) is a specific application of software-defined networking (SDN) technology applied to WAN connections such as broadband internet, 4G, LTE, or MPLS. It connects enterprise networks – including branch offices and data centers – over large geographic distances.

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  • Why Edge computing is important for Internet of things

    In our Edge computing series, we saw how this cutting-edge technological advancement will shape up the next era. The future of Edge computing undisputedly lies in mobile edge computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT). But, is it so obvious? Though IoT and Edge computing are two separate topics and technologies, it cannot be denied that they share a strong relationship. IoT enables us to connect millions of physical devices making our daily tasks easier. Edge computing is a concept to process data nearest to the source device. The question arises - why we need to use Edge computing for IoT? Cannot it be done using cloud computing or some other method of data processing? Is this because of the huge amount of data being produced by the devices? Do we need Edge computing for achieving the optimum system performance and efficiency?

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  • Security and privacy of Edge computing

    Due to the sensitive nature of the data, privacy and security have become the top priorities for all the organizations. Methods that have been used so far for securing the sensitive information are not enough. In this era, where the organizations are making a shift towards wide-scale adoption of Edge computing, it will be interesting to discuss some important steps that should be taken for security and privacy of Edge computing ecosystem.

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  • Comparison of Edge Computing Implementations

    We have already discussed the benefits and importance of Edge computing for processing large-scale data and why it is preferred over cloud computing. For all data processing requirements, cloud computing has been the most preferred solution for the past 10 years. But with the growth of intelligent devices, the Internet of things, V2X communications and Augmented reality, this trend is shifting towards Edge computing.  The main reason behind such rapid adoption of Edge computing technology is the delays and latency issues associated with cloud computing that needs data to be sent to cloud for processing and brought back to the application for the response. To tackle the shortcomings, we need to process data nearest to the devices. There are several types of Edge computing implementations. Let’s discuss the comparison of Edge computing implementations in detail.

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  • Benefits of Edge computing

    Edge computing is one of the hottest topic these days. Everyone in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry is talking about Edge computing and its implementation for several reasons. Most of the big data solutions that are working currently in the market are using cloud solutions. In the cloud, the information is collected from the sensors and transferred to the remote data warehouses where processing is done. The processed data is sent back to the devices that are to be controlled. With the growth of IoT, the need for faster processing has gained importance. It is proven fact that Edge computing is comparatively more advantageous because it processes data within or nearest to the devices that produce this data. But the question remains – is this the only reason for the increasing prominence of Edge computing? Let’s delve deeper and find out why Edge computing is the perfect solution for IoT.

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  • What is EDGE Computing? Its architecture and examples!

    With the increase in the amount of data being transferred over the Internet, there was a high need for some reliable sources where we can store and process our data with ease, security, and reliability. Cloud computing was the best solution for these needs and companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft efficiently provided these services. But with increased technology innovations and IOT enabled devices there is a need for fast data processing. This is where Edge computing comes into action.

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  • IS EDGE COMPUTING THE NEXT PHASE OF IT

    Whether Edge Computing will complement the existing legacy infrastructure or entirely substitute it, remains a wide-ranging debate. It will be interesting to observe how enterprises adapt amid such radical technological innovation i.e. the next-gen services will be a combination of the data center, the cloud, and the edge or edge will rule the roost. In this data-driven economy, current data infrastructure will most likely undergo a drastic revolution.

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  • SD-WAN For Enterprises Is Preferred Over Traditional WAN

    For success of any company in this connected world having a fast and reliable network connection is very important. Essential applications like ERP, CRM, Video conferencing apps, cloud applications etc. are used by most of the companies. They need a reliable network connection to keep the process running smoothly and in efficient manner.

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  • 5 Keys to Building a Modern Cloud Network

    As technology continues to evolve, a relatively new development is the move back to massive centralized infrastructure for application delivery to enterprises large and small. The trend brings with it incredible value but also new complexity that many firms haven’t prepared for.

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  • SD-WAN Explained: The Three Flavors (by Matrix Networks)

    Most of us have heard of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and understand that it can have a huge impact on our networks and the way our businesses operate. What is SD-WAN? SD-WAN is best defined as traffic monitoring and management from physical devices to the application itself,

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  • SD-WAN is Fast Becoming a Replacement for Branch Routers

    Today’s network looks and behaves very differently than networks of decades past. The days of transmitting just data or simple files across private and public networks is over and now big packet requirements that enable video and voice is commonplace.

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  • SD-WAN Market Outlook for 2018-2023

    SD-WAN has evolved into a technology that is much more than just a tool to optimize connectivity. It is now a business enabler, a key differentiator for those providing networking functionality, and the tip of the spear powering the future of networking and the

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  • Grocery Stores Lower Costs and Improve Network Connectivity with SD-WAN

    Grocery shopping 40 years ago was easy. You gathered your groceries, you took them to the register, everything was rung up and you handed over your cash or check.Fast forward 40 years and the experience is radically different.

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