The year is coming to an end, which means the holidays are here — and for sports fans, it also means the NFL and college football playoffs are around the corner.

Football stadiums will turn into mini-cities holding tens of thousands of people, all of whom want to be hyperconnected as they cheer on their favorite teams. Through their mobile devices, they can share photos and video with their friends but also check on other scores, watch highlights and more, creating an integrated physical and digital experience.

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Football playoffs are upon us. Is the Wi-Fi ready?

Recently, cloud security provider Zscaler introduced its Zero Trust Certified Architect (ZTCA) certification. The program is designed to help network and security professionals learn critical skills and also validate their expertise.

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Zscaler Introduces Zero Trust Certifications

This week, high-performance network vendor Arista announced the expansion of its popular 7050X4 and 7060X5 switches. The former has been deployed in enterprise environments, while the latter is commonly found in hyperscale backbones.

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Arista Rolls Out New Products Aimed at Supporting Next-Generation Compute

At most trade shows, the Expo Hall is a “must see” area for attendees as that’s the place innovation can be experienced, and that was the case at the recent AWS re:Invent show. In the Expo Hall, the cloud vendor set up several stations to show real-life examples of many of its advanced technologies.

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Advanced Technology on Display at AWS re:Invent

This week Dialpad announced the evolution of its “TrueCaaS” strategy, using the phrase “AI-Powered Customer Intelligence.”

The company had been using TrueCaaS to describe its single cloud software stack that can deliver Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS).

One of the primary benefits of a converged platform is having a single data lake with which to perform analytics to make business decisions. Most communications vendors offer UCaaS or CCaaS and then partner for the other capability. Dialpad is one of the few that has built a single, cloud native stack to deliver both.

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Dialpad Introduces AI-Powered Customer Intelligence