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Channel partner spotlight: Sciens

Kentik

Wireless security: Rogue access point detection and blocking. We also offer internet infrastructure construction. This part of our business helps our customers build new network access for their end users, with specialized, tailored IT infrastructure solutions. Converging customer needs. Network planning. WEP cloaking.

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

CATO Networks

Cloud and SaaS traffic must be first brought from the branch to a secured Internet access point at central location. As such, traditional MPLS architecture find it difficult to offer low latency/high performance access to cloud and SaaS applications and services. A standard SD-WAN does have its challenges.

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Four Questions For Life After MPLS

CATO Networks

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. Start by addressing the core questions to know if the Internet can play a role in part or entirely as your next backbone. Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth has experienced the surreal.

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How Secure is Your SD-WAN?

CATO Networks

In order for companies to realize SD-WANs cost savings and cloud performance benefits, branch offices must be connected directly to and communicate across the Internet. To do that, we must think about network security at three levels traffic protection, threat protection, and securing mobile and cloud access.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet. Keep in mind however, that unless SD-WAN is deployed as part of SASE, it cant support global connectivity, network optimization, WAN and Internet security, cloud acceleration, and remote users.

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How SD-WANs Can Become Next Generation WAN Architectures

CATO Networks

As mobile users connect directly to the internet through unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and offices access cloud resources via direct internet access, the attack surface grows. When the portals sit near or within the path to the Internet destinations, the performance impact of such an architecture is usually nominal.

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What is Network Visibility?

CATO Networks

The problem is today enterprise WANs are a mix of MPLS, Internet-based VPNs, mobile users, and cloud services. 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.

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