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Hi, I have blogged many maps to describe the Azure landscape. These have proven helpful and I've received a lot of positive feedback about them. The networking piece in…
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By shruthi_nair Mays_Algebary Inspection plays a vital role in network architecture, and each customer may have unique inspection requirements. This article explores common inspection scenarios in both Hub-and-Spoke and Virtual WAN (vWAN) topologies. We’ll walk through design approaches assuming a setup with two Hubs or Virtual Hubs (VHubs) connected…
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