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The Internet Has a Moving Problem
Aalyria took the useful machinery from a failed balloon network and gave it a harder job: keep satellites, aircraft, ships and ground stations talking while everything moves.
Tufin’s Bet: The Firewall Is Fine. The Policy Sprawl Is the Problem.
Big companies do not have one firewall; they have a small parliament of them. Tufin built the policy layer that gets Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, cloud controls and SASE tools to follow the same rules.
MaiaEdge Wants to Turn the Internet’s ‘Big Middle’ Into a Push-Button Business
Private connectivity still gets negotiated by spreadsheet and activated on telecom time. MaiaEdge’s hardware-and-software bet is that operators can turn months of coordination into minutes - without handing the customer to somebody else.
Aviz Networks
Aviz Networks is a San Jose-based networking software company that helps enterprises run open, vendor-agnostic networks built on the open-source SONiC operating system and layered with AI. Its stack - ONES, Open Packet Broker, and the GenAI Network Copilot - lets organizations deploy, observe, and operate multi-vendor, multi-ASIC networks across the data center, edge, and AI factory without vendor lock-in, combining 24x7 SONiC support with orchestration, telemetry, and plain-language automation.