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Red River unveiled a fully managed software-defined wide area network solution. Red River Managed SD-WAN leverages the company's award-winning Managed Services and Cisco SD-WAN technology to deliver advanced enterprise networking capabilities to the public sector and enterprise markets.

Masergy announced that it is strengthening its SD-WAN Secure solution to offer Secure Access Service Edge capabilities. Masergy is taking a best-of-breed approach to SASE, combining security technologies from leaders in their respective Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrants to deliver a converged network and security solution.

Three security bugs in the Citrix software-defined-WAN platform would allow remote code-execution and network takeover, according to researchers. The first vulnerability allows unauthenticated RCE with root privileges in Citrix SD-WAN Center, according to Citrix.

Silver Peak's Unity Orchestrator, a software-defined WAN management platform, suffers from three remote code-execution security bugs that can be chained together to allow network takeover by unauthenticated attackers. The issues are present In Silver Peak Unity Orchestrator versions prior to 8.9.11+, 8.10.11+, or 9.0.1+. Orchestrator instances that are hosted by customers - on-premise or in a public cloud provider - are affected, Silver Peak said.

Corporate WANs are failing to deliver on businesses' priorities, with 55% of respondents citing security is the biggest pain point, 43% service flexibility, 36% supplier performance, and 35% network congestion, according to a survey from Telia Carrier. The research was conducted in four of the world's biggest markets - the US, the UK, Germany and France - and provides insights into the evolution of the corporate WAN and cloud adoption from the top of business.

Windstream Enterprise announced updates to its WE Connect portal, giving customers heightened visibility across their SD-WAN networks. "With the enhancements to WE Connect Insight Engine, customers now have even more perspective and analysis across their SD-WAN environments, allowing them to easily visualize, identify and respond to anomalies before they become business or network problems," said Mike Frane, vice president of product management at Windstream Enterprise.

The new offerings extend the value of Masergy's Managed SD-WAN Secure solutions to the remote workforce, supporting their network connections with built-in security, dual-link redundancy, load balancing, and dynamic traffic steering capabilities. Businesses of all sizes use Masergy's SD-WAN to provide secure and reliable cloud application performance to office employees, and now their users at home or on the go have access to the same level of security and performance.

Windstream Enterprise has added new Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa voice command features to its SD-WAN solution, enabling network administrators to work more efficiently. WE already includes Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa integration in its award-winning OfficeSuite UC® solution.

The global wide area network optimization market size is estimated to reach $4.88 billion by 2027, registering a CAGR of 9.5% from 2020 to 2027, according to Grand View Research. The growing need for efficient network optimization across business organizations is the major factor in driving the market growth.

Cisco patched a critical flaw in its wide area network software solution for enterprises, which if exploited could give remote, unauthenticated attackers administrator privileges. The flaw exists in Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services, which is software that Cisco describes as a "WAN optimization solution." It helps manage business applications that are being leveraged in virtual private cloud infrastructure.