The 10 Coolest New Networking Products Of 2021 (So Far)

June 30, 2021, 03:15 PM EDT

The pandemic prompted a slew of new networking offerings to come to market that embraced emerging trends, such as multi-cloud, AI, edge networking and automation. Here’s 10 new networking products that solution providers should know about.

VMware Cloud Web Security

VMware, which acquired VeloCloud for its SD-WAN in 2017, in June announced the general availability of VMware Cloud Web Security. The latest offering is a cloud-hosted service that extends VMware’s VeloCloud’s SD-WAN and VMware Secure Access to users working from anywhere to their applications in the cloud, using the same points of presence that VMware uses to deliver it’s SD-WAN, according to the company.

VMware has an existing relationship with cloud security provider Zscaler, but the addition of Cloud Web Security “completes the picture” for VMware’s own SASE strategy, VMware told CRN at the time.

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Gina Narcisi

Gina Narcisi is a senior editor covering the networking and telecom markets for CRN.com. Prior to joining CRN, she covered the networking, unified communications and cloud space for TechTarget. She can be reached at gnarcisi@thechannelcompany.com.