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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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How Secure is Your SD-WAN?

CATO Networks

The market for SD-WAN has been driven in part by its ability to reduce bandwidth costs and improve the performance of cloud access. Any SD-WAN should build a virtual overlay of encrypted tunnels between locations. These drivers, though, also come with baggage: the reassessment of todays corporate security model.

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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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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. In addition to the encryption used to secure SD-WAN tunnels, branches also require URL filtering, anti-malware, IDS/IPS, sandboxing and more. Its also a security requirement.

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What is Network Visibility?

CATO Networks

Further, because they can obscure the data from network sensors, Network Address Translation (NAT) and encryption reduce the usefulness of the sensors and can stifle packet inspection efforts. I can even see down to a single person and how much bandwidth (s)he is using. Cato is powerful beyond belief.

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