Next-gen NAT is coming; Why aren't more people using Cisco's IP SLA?

From Cisco Subnet; Why aren't more people using Cisco's IP SLA? Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by Fortinet Webcast: When Good Applications Go Bad Register today to hear Andrew Jaquith, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, and Anthony James, VP Products at Fortinet, discuss the challenges posed to enterprises by application security threats. Additionally, hear a customer testimonial on how CKE Restaurants, responsible for operating many of the USA's most popular quick-service and fast-casual dining restaurants, reduced the risk of application-borne threats. Register now. Spotlight Story Large Scale NAT Architectures Jeff Doyle writes, "Traditional NAT has been used for fifteen or so years to enable the sharing of a small number of public IPv4 addresses by a larger number of privately-addressed devices. As we approach the depletion of public IPv4 addresses, broadband providers are looking at how to continue giving their customers public-facing IP addresses when there are no IPv4 addresses left to hand out. The answer seems rather obvious: If NAT has been effective at the provider-facing customer edge, it should also be effective at the customer-facing provider edge. That's the basis of Large Scale NAT (LSN). LSN adds another layer of translation, so that just as private IPv4 addresses are used on the inside of the CPE NAT they can also be used to assign addresses to the outside of the CPE NAT. " Read full story Related News: From Cisco Subnet This is Network World's Cisco Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your daily source for Cisco news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more. Why aren't more people using Cisco's IP SLA? Brad Reese: Cisco IP SLA has been embedded in most Cisco switches and routers for the past decade. 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