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Networking Glossary: Top 16 Networking Terms Everyone Should Know

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Hybrid Wide-Area Network (Hybrid WAN) a type of wide area network that sends traffic over two or more connection types. QoS (Quality of Service ) the capability of a network to provide better service to selected traffic, including dedicated bandwidth and controlled jitter and latency.

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How Alewijnse used SD-WAN Connectivity as an MPLS Alternative: A In-depth Profile

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The Dutch engineering company had built a global wide area network (WAN) out of MPLS and Internet services connecting 17 locations 14 in Europe and 3 in the Asia Pacific with about 800 mobile and field employees. Mobile security was an issue and another area ignored by MLPS. But they rejected the idea.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

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SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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The Future of the Firewall is in the Cloud 

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Jay made the right bet building his business around the Check Point Network Firewall and used this success and his entrepreneurial spirit to launch Zscaler. Zscaler offered a secure web gateway (SWG) as a service. With the public Internet being the underlying network, Zscaler only option was to build its solution as an overlay proxy.

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How Secure is Your SD-WAN?

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Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues.

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