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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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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 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. Advanced threat protection addresses these risks with various technologies, such as next generation firewall (NGFW) , Secure Web Gateway (SWG) , malware protection , and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).

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What is Network Visibility?

CATO Networks

Traditionally, network visibility within the WAN has been made possible by SIEM (security information and event management) solutions and network management systems that aggregate packet flow data from multiple security and network monitoring tools such as security appliances, firewalls, and endpoint sensors. Cato is powerful beyond belief.

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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. Security SD-WANs achieve significant gains in agility and cost reduction in large part due to their ability to leverage direct Internet access (DIA) at branch offices.

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4 Tangible Reasons for Considering SD-WANs

CATO Networks

Security meant protecting the companys central Internet access point and deploying endpoint security on clients. Once inside the enterprise, though, many WANs are flat-networks with all sites being able to access one another. The SD-WAN node will load balance the connections, maximize their use of available bandwidth.

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Optimizing Network Stability and Reliability Through Data-Driven Strategies

Kentik

Only then can we pinpoint why one of our data center ToR switches is overwhelmed with unexpected traffic, why our line of business application is experiencing latency over the SD-WAN, why an OSPF adjacency is flapping, or why our SaaS app performance is terrible despite having a ton of available bandwidth.

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