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The 10 Hottest New Network Tools Of 2019
Gina Narcisi
Networking tools are becoming more intelligent, automated and secure as enterprise networks become more and more complicated. CRN gathers up ten of the hottest new network tools Of 2019.

AT&T, Microsoft's Network Edge Compute (NEC) Technology
Telecom giant AT&T and tech leader Microsoft teamed up in July in a multi-year, multi-billion dollar deal to support each other in cloud and 5G as AT&T pledged to move most of its non-network workloads to the public cloud by 2024.
In November, the two companies opened up select availability for its Network Edge Compute (NEC), a technology that brings Microsoft Azure cloud services into AT&T network edge locations closer to customers. The new technology means that Dallas-based AT&T’s software-defined and virtualized 5G core; what the company calls its Network Cloud – is now capable of delivering Azure services. NEC is now available in certain parts of Dallas. The two companies plan to roll out NEC in parts of Atlanta and Los Angeles in 2020.