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Four Questions For Life After MPLS

CATO Networks

Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth has experienced the surreal. While at home you might spend $50 for a 50 Mbps Internet link, MPLS services can cost 10 times more for a fraction of the bandwidth. Security – What do you need to secure the Internet access points at each of your offices?

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Juniper Networks selected for radio astronomy project

DCNN Magazine

telescope, supported by Juniper infrastructure, will give ASTRON a factor 10 increase in the network bandwidth available at each LOFAR station. Juniper’s solutions are instrumental in enabling ASTRON to meet the increasing demand for bandwidth and to provide the new era of digital services within the astronomical discovery sector.

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What’s Really the Best Approach for Replacing MPLS Connectivity?

CATO Networks

Users continue to require ever increasing amounts of bandwidth, an expensive resource for MPLS networks. And companies continue to have to figure out how to secure the many Internet access points created by SD-WAN. Mobile users are still ignored by MPLS infrastructure. Mobile users are still ignored.

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How SD-WANs Can Become Next Generation WAN Architectures

CATO Networks

The path-selection process for loss-sensitive applications, such as VoIP and video, for example, is no different from those that are bandwidth intensive. Research shows that DIA bandwidth costs can be as much as 90 percent less than MPLS bandwidth costs. But to improve uptime DIA will also require dual-homed links.

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Why Traditional MPLS Networks are Ill-Suited for UCaaS

CATO Networks

Furthermore, leveraging SD-WAN services that offer security management can reduce operating costs, and headaches, saving enterprise customers from the expense and complexity of managing distributed Internet access points.

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MPLS, VPN Internet Access, Cloud Networking or SD-WAN? Choose Wisely

CATO Networks

For your business to stay ahead of the pack, you should be looking to improve network and security infrastructure to have the flexibility and strength to handle not just todays bandwidth demands, but tomorrows demands as well. Cloud and SaaS traffic must be first brought from the branch to a secured Internet access point at central location.

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What is Network Visibility?

CATO Networks

The traffic is then routed on to a local Internet access point or across the WAN to a centralized and secure Internet access point before making its way to its destination in the cloud. I can even see down to a single person and how much bandwidth (s)he is using. Cato is powerful beyond belief.