Cisco has extended its family of Catalyst networking gear with routers designed to integrate remote, industrial-edge network resources. The new Catalyst 5G Industrial Router family includes three modular routers and a gateway that run Cisco’s core operating system, IOS XE, and support a variety of network access technologies such as SD-WAN, Wi-Fi 6, 5G, 4G, Private LTE, FirstNet and Wi-SUN. The ultimate goal is to let customers tie together enterprise networks and SD-WANs with remote…

Applications and users are more distributed than ever, and the Internet has effectively become the new enterprise WAN. As organizations continue to embrace the Internet, cloud, and SaaS, network and IT teams are challenged to deliver consistent and reliable connectivity, application performance, and security over networks and services they don’t own or directly control. Network teams often carry the burden of proving the network innocent when something goes wrong. Application issues might manifest themselves as…

The global pandemic has accelerated enterprise IT teams’ desire to simplify the management of complex multi-cloud and edge environments and operate them holistically as a single WAN. It is also driving IT requirements for delivering the highest levels of application performance for all their cloud-hosted business applications, from any network in the emerging post-pandemic environment. This shift is intensifying the urgency to transform conventional data center and MPLS-centric and VPN-based networks to a more modern…

Philippines-based Asurion has spent decades protecting millions of personal tech devices for thousands of clients around the world. Asurion’s service plans provide end-to-end technical support and protection for household and personal devices—everything from flat-screen TVs, home appliances, laptops, and gaming consoles/headsets, to smart thermostats, home security systems, mobile phones, and more. Regardless of a device’s age or where it was purchased, when clients choose an Asurion device protection plan, they’re assured that it’s covered for…

 Three simple reasons you’re going to love our new portfolio to Unite Your Edge We’ve heard a lot about the edge over the last several years. The promise of digitizing the edge data for business value – like operational efficiencies, improved customer experiences, and business resiliency – has been delayed by the challenges of managing and securing that edge. With our new line of IoT industrial routing and gateway products launched today, we’re helping you…