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Juniper Networks acquires Boston-area AI SD-WAN startup 128 Technology for $450M

TechCrunch

Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million.

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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO

Three-quarters (74%) of banks experienced a rise in cyber crime since the pandemic began in 2019. SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security. Its design provides for fast, efficient movement of data on the network while ensuring security and data integrity.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering.

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Signals from space: SD-WAN marks the next stage in commercialized space-based comms

CIO

For the everyday consumer, space-based communications are largely limited to phone packages for use during localized emergencies when network coverage is down, or on remote camping trips via specialized “sat” phones. As a WAN access technology though, satellite communication does experience its fair share of obstacles.

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Pioneering next-gen AI-powered networks for connected business and customer centricity

CIO

With an increasingly decentralized workforce and unprecedented demands from both business and the economy, the network as always is the all-important component of a modern IT infrastructure of an organization. A primary technology driving this evolution is the network industry, the substrate on which global organizations function seamlessly.

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Lessons from Google on Converging Network Technologies with SD-WAN

Kentik

Today, SD-WAN is an overlay. However, these systems are evolving, and as they do, we can see the future coming together where SD-WAN becomes increasingly intelligent and driven by multiple signals. Google is a perfect example of a company that is often 5 to 10 years ahead of the industry, including for SD-WAN innovation.

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Better Together: Security + SD-WAN by Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

By Koroush Saraf, VP, Product Management for SD-WAN. Applications moving to the cloud and increased user mobility are changing the way networking and network security services must be delivered. In order to solve the complexity of networking and security, a single, unified platform for cloud access is needed.

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