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Four Questions For Life After MPLS

CATO Networks

Security – What do you need to secure the Internet access points at each of your offices? With security, for example, do you want to offload Internet traffic at the branch or backhaul traffic to the datacenter? But with Internet offload youll have another consideration — remote office network security.

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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. These drivers, though, also come with baggage: the reassessment of todays corporate security model. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities.

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What is Network Visibility?

CATO Networks

The fact that traditional monitoring tools, like SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) and many agent-based solutions, simply dont work in the cloud makes things worse. The backbone consists of 45+ Point of Presences (PoPs) across the globe and Cato strives to have a PoP within 25 milliseconds of any Cato user.

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

CATO Networks

As adoption of cloud services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery models grow, traditional MPLS network architectures become less effective. Cloud and SaaS traffic must be first brought from the branch to a secured Internet access point at central location. A standard SD-WAN does have its challenges.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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How SD-WANs Can Become Next Generation WAN Architectures

CATO Networks

Networking, security, and mobility technologies are deployed and operated independently. Integrated Security-Network Evaluation CIOs and IT leaders should pull together an interdisciplinary team to take a strategic approach to the new WAN and the dissolved perimeter.

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