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Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure

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Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure - Gartner Published 18 October 2018 - ID G00351467 - 61 min read WAN edge infrastructure is changing rapidly as I&O leaders responsible for networking face dynamic business requirements, including new application architectures and on-premises and cloud-based deployment models. I&O leaders can use this research to identify vendors that best fit their requirements. Strategic Planning Assumption By year-end 2023, more than 90% of WAN edge infrastructure refresh initiatives will be based on virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE) platforms or software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) software/appliances versus traditional routers (up from less than 40% today). Market Definition/Description WAN edge infrastructure enables network connectivity from distributed enterprise locations to access resources in both private and public data centers as well as cloud (as a service). It is typically procured by senior networking leaders wit...

Script to retrieve Google Network ip block

This is the script to retrieve the Google Network IP block. This is useful if you need to only trust google incoming ip. I use this script to update the ip list daily. So that my nginx only allow traffic from google. #>cat UpdateGoogleNetworkBlock.sh blocks=`dig -t txt _netblocks.google.com |grep -oP '[^_]*v=spf1 \K.*' |sed -e "s/ ~all\"//" ` IFS=' ' read -a block_array <<< "$blocks" echo "" > /etc/nginx/conf.d/Google_Network for i in "${block_array[@]}" do echo "allow ${i//ip4:};" >> /etc/nginx/conf.d/Google_Network done service nginx restart