Ciena, a provider of industry-leading networking and security solutions for the cloud-native era, accelerates partners’ success with cutting-edge cloud solutions.
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Enterprises are shifting to a hybrid cloud environment while maintaining “work-from-anywhere” policies. This challenges enterprise IT teams, as they must ensure high-quality application performance - regardless of where employees access the cloud – all while hardening network security against increasingly cloud-based cyberattacks. With this in mind, it’s clear that legacy architectures no longer meet either the performance or security demands of the cloud era.
Rooted in its leadership converging next-generation optical networking and encryption security technologies, Ciena provides an industry-leading secure access service edge (SASE) solution that converges networking (SD-WAN) and security service edge (SSE) to meet the new demands of enterprises whose perimeters extend beyond the traditional branch to include multi-cloud providers, as well as work-from-home and mobile employees.
Secure SD-WAN integrates:
- Comprehensive premises-based security
- Scalable advanced routing
- Full-featured SD-WAN
- Genuine multi-tenancy
- Sophisticated analytics
This is all wrapped in a single, enterprise-class, carrier-grade system that operates at an exceptional scale to ensure application performance!
Secure Service Edge
Secure service edge - also known as SSE - consolidates multiple security products into a single, best-of-breed software platform that is cloud-delivered, managed, and controlled. With SSE, you can define once and consistently enforce a unified set of SSE policies and functions to protect users, devices, sites, applications, and workloads. SSE also includes in-demand enterprise security functions like cloud access security broker (CASB), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS).
Secure Access Service Edge
Secure access service edge– or SASE – converges all networking and security capabilities into a single-service, cloud-native, globally distributed architecture that shifts the security focus from “traffic-flow-centric” to “identity-centric,” which provides enterprises the ability to establish and enforce networking and security policies at a much more granular level than many competitors.
In conclusion, SD-WAN, SSE, and SASE can help organizations simplify their IT infrastructure, advance their threat prevention, better protect their data, and connect customers to the cloud cost-effectively, securely, and with optimized application performance.
To learn more about these technologies and how Ciena solutions can help you build and implement them, email TD SYNNEX’s Ciena team at Ciena@tdsynnex.com.