Meraki solutions support BYOD, guest networking, application control, WAN optimization, application firewall and other advanced networking services.

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Most firewall vendors include a VPN application as a part of the firewall itself.

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When deploying a new internal application, network, or server, several new rules have to be added to the firewall.

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Companies can buy a 10-processor system, for example, and allocate one processor to a firewall, one to caching, two to a database, and six to balancing application workload, thereby making those applications highly available.

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As you listen to Francois, compare his story to that of the so-called Next Generation Firewall vendors who have settled on a subset of network protections to define NGF, namely IPS and application awareness.

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