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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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The Mobile Access Revolution: Visibility and Performance Remain a Challenge

CATO Networks

If mobile VPN seems a persistent pain in the-you-know-where, youre not alone. During the webinar, we asked participants about their mobile VPN challenges. With SD-WAN appliances, mobile users are still left establishing VPNs back to on-premises firewalls (or concentrators).

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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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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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What is Network Visibility?

CATO Networks

Traditional VPN solutions enable connectivity for mobile and remote employees but do little to enable the same visibility and control possible on-premises. The problem is today enterprise WANs are a mix of MPLS, Internet-based VPNs, mobile users, and cloud services.

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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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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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