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

TechCrunch

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. With 128 Technology, the company gets more AI SD-WAN technology. 128 Technologies was founded in 2014 and raised over $97 million, according to Crunchbase data. .

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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. An SD-WAN overlays traditional or hybrid WAN infrastructures and locates the software or hardware nodes at each location and in the cloud.

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

CIO

Starlink’s aim is to provide affordable internet access to everyone, anywhere in the world, and its service has grown rapidly over the past four years, with more than 3,000 satellites in orbit and over 500,000 customers since 2019. As a WAN access technology though, satellite communication does experience its fair share of obstacles.

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

TechCrunch

As described by Gartner in 2019, SASE combines software-based wide area networking and security principles like zero trust into a single service model. Cisco Systems acquired Viptela and VMware bought SD-WAN vendor VeloCloud, and more recently, HPE’s Aruba snapped up Silver Peak while Palo Alto Networks absorbed CloudGenix.

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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. In Gartner’s words: “The secure access service edge is an emerging offering combining comprehensive WAN capabilities with comprehensive network security functions, such as SWG, CASB, FwaaS and ZTNA, to support the dynamic secure access needs of digital enterprises.”

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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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As employees shift from office, Cloudbrink provides a strong, secure internet connection

TechCrunch

Cloudbrink , a startup launched in 2019, has built a solution to bring that same safety and speed found in the building to wherever the employee happens to be working (to the extent possible). The company has built a kind of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and the solution works to improve speed automatically in the background.

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