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I guess they'll still have their office gear like SMB, firewall, WAN, etc. to lean for a while.
by brazzledazzle 10y ago
I guess they'll still have their office gear like SMB, firewall, WAN, etc. to lean for a while.
- sithadmin 10y ago> they'll still have their office gear like SMB, firewall, WAN, etc. to lean for a while. A while? More like forever. Short of corporations abandoning the notion of shared physical workspaces (which isn't likely to happen in the foreseeable future), corporate MDF, IDF, and edge gear will always be around in some form or another.
- wmf 10y agoPeople are already starting to talk about whiteboxing the branch office by running all the "value" as VMs (VNFs) on a generic x86 box.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoEven in that scenario they still have a bit of an edge because they can still take advantage of their lead on software by turning their stuff into virtual appliances.
- jodrellblank 10y agoWhich they already do offer: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/virtual-adaptive-security-appliance-firewall/index.html http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/virtual-adapt... http://www.juniper.net/uk/en/products-services/security/srx-series/vsrx/ http://www.juniper.net/uk/en/products-services/security/srx-... https://www.sonicwall.com/products/sra-virtual-appliance/ https://www.sonicwall.com/products/sra-virtual-appliance/ http://www.watchguard.com/products/xtmv/overview.asp http://www.watchguard.com/products/xtmv/overview.asp