Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This blog post goes over: The complexities that users will run into when self-managing Apache Kafka on the cloud and how users can benefit from building event streaming applications with a fully managed service for Apache Kafka. Key characteristics of a fully managed service that you can trust for production and mission-critical applications.

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Kentik

MARCH 15, 2023

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) DDoS attacks are cyber attacks that most often have the purpose of causing application downtime. These attacks aim to overwhelm a service’s bandwidth capabilities with prohibitively high traffic volumes. Application layer. Application layer. Protocol-based.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

Business critical applications Important question to ask: where are your business critical applications located — in an in-house data center or in the cloud? Depending on the answer, the bandwidth, speed, latency and performance requirements will differ. In recent years, we see cloud migration on a large scale.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

This phenomenon is highly applicable to many IT transformations such as cloud migration and move to hybrid work, but even more so to SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). It becomes a gateway to a broader transformation, as the initial project reveals the benefits of consolidating networking and security into a single cloud-native service.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Optimization has always been about overcoming latency, jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth limitations. However, in recent years bandwidth has become much less of an issue for most enterprises. Lower dollar-per-bit costs of bandwidth and apps that incorporate data duplication and compression are big drivers of this shift.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Performance is a key driver behind the movement, with 5G enabling: Greater throughput -- mobile broadband with bandwidth ranging from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps. In these cases, remote enterprise sites may not need the highest bandwidth but require a deterministic quality of service. Lower latency -- ultra-low latency down to 1 millisecond.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Its impractical to centralize a network around an on-premise datacenter when data and applications increasingly are in the cloud and users are wherever they need to beon the road, at home, at a customer site, in a branch office. SASE moves security out of the legacy datacenter and closer to where users, data and applications reside today.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overall, the company saved 95 percent on its annual costs, doubled its bandwidth and eliminated the complexities of MLPS all without sacrificing line quality. Current services include a next generation firewall , Secure Web Gateway , Advanced Threat Prevention , Cloud and Mobile Access Protection and network Forensics.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

Networking Glossary BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) The practice of employees using their personal mobile devices to do their jobs, typically requiring connection to enterprise networks and accessing enterprise data and cloud applications. This trend brings with it many challenges, which are described in detail here.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2024

However, the rise of SaaS applications, hybrid work, and global operations has created new challenges for MPLS-based networks, as their once-reliable architecture now fails to meet the demands of modern, cloud-centric environments. While SD-WAN eliminates limitations of MPLS, not all SD-WAN solutions are created equal.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2019

A communication hub is essentially a datacenter in the cloud, with an emphasis on connectivity to other communication hubs, cloud data centers, and cloud applications. Voice and video traffic is on the rise, and it requires high bandwidth, low latency transport. What is a communication hub? using secure tunnels.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

With this technology, an organizations sites are connected to a single, logical, global firewall with a unified application-aware security policy. This elastic capacity allows for the rapid deployment of additional sites and changes in bandwidth requirements. Thus, a separate firewall solution is required for the WAN.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

Accelerated Application Migration to the Cloud As more teams require access to applications and infrastructure in the cloud, IT teams need to find ways to manage user and service access, deal with Shadow IT and enforce cloud policies from legacy networks. This is essential for ensuring secure connectivity and business continuity.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

As critical business applications migrate to the cloud, and the mobile workforce continues to grow, networking and security solutions need to evolve in order to meet the changing business needs. Applications, data, and services lived within private datacenters and relied on remote access solutions to connect remote workers.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Moreover, traditional VPNs can introduce latency and bandwidth constraints, impacting application performance and user experience: Complexity : VPNs can be complex to manage, especially for large organizations with multiple locations and diverse user populations.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Youve been told to cut costs Its no secret that MPLS circuits cost a fortune often 3-4x the price of MPLS alternatives (like SD-WAN,) for only a fraction of the bandwidth. Youre going cloud and migrating from on-prem to cloud DCs and apps Migrating from on-prem legacy applications to cloud isnt generally an if but a when statement.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

The Challenge of Appliance-Based Network Security Network security was simpler in the past: there was a clear perimeter (or perimeters for multi-site companies) with networks, users, and applications firmly inside organizations. MPLS also has other challenges like the complexity of deployment and provisioning.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The market for SD-WAN has been driven in part by its ability to reduce bandwidth costs and improve the performance of cloud access. Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 25, 2024

SASE seeks to address these issues by converging various functionssuch as SD-WAN , secure web gateways , cloud access security brokers (CASB) , and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) into a single, cohesive platform. This platform needs to be cloud-native to handle the ever-increasing demands of bandwidth and innovation.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

SD-WAN adoption is seeing rapid growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications. Support For Cloud Applications Is Now a Requirement, Not a Luxury Its no surprise that the use of cloud datacenters and cloud applications has grown exponentially, especially for global enterprises.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

More specifically this meant: More capacity to improve application performance Reduced network costs by using affordable Internet access, not high-priced MPLS capacity. SD-WAN addressed those problems, creating an intelligent overlay that allowed companies to tap commodity Internet connections to overcome the limitations of MPLS.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

At the most granular, enterprises may strive to achieve visibility down to the packet, user, and application level. Additionally, network visibility can improve network analytics and application profiling. Similarly, capturing application-level visibility on traffic to and from cloud datacenters becomes a major challenge.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It created a platform that could be used for unlimited applications. Google used some of the capabilities of the smartphone, coupled with its own technology, to create a unique and high value application. High-Performance FWaaS – Firewall as a service is a multifunction security gateway delivered as a cloud-based service.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

This is a network architecture configuration where traffic is directed from a VPN client to the corporate network and also through a gateway to link with the Internet. Catos SASE solution enables remote users, through a client or clientless browser access, to access all business applications, via secure and optimized connection.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The bandwidth is expensive (relative to Internet capacity) and often limited or unavailable on some routes, forcing companies to either pay exorbitant fees to connect locations or, more likely, resort to Internet-based VPNs, complicating network design. Let ‘ s look at the various areas of savings SD-WAN can offer and the resulting ROI.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

Unlike dynamic routes, learned through dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) or EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol), static routes require the network administrator to specify the next hop or destination IP address. This predictability is beneficial for applications requiring reliable connectivity.

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Kentik

JUNE 20, 2016

For CIOs, the focus is on operational issues such as network and application performance, uptime, and workflows. From the CIO perspective, network issues related to bandwidth constraints, latency, congestion, and packet loss are all tightly interconnected. For CISOs, the stress is about malware, access control, and data exfiltration.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

Enterprises can choose how to securely connect remote and mobile users to their enterprise resources and applications. Cato Client is a lightweight application that can be set up on a users device in minutes. Catos clientless access solution allows optimized and secure access to select applications through a browser.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Its also no secret that traditional networks add latency to UCaaS sessions, backhauling all cloud (including UCaaS) traffic to a centralized, secured Internet gateway. Sophisticated upstream and downstream Quality of Service (QoS) ensure UCaaS traffic receives the necessary bandwidth to and from a branch office.

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Vedcraft

JUNE 16, 2024

Click here to read about the applicability of Generative AI by product companies. This indicates in 2024 and beyond, there will be a surge of technical initiatives to build Generative AI applications meeting diverse business use cases and internal efficiencies.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

Cloud datacenters are connected via an agentless configuration, and cloud applications are connected through our cloud-optimized routing. Enterprises manage and monitor networking, security, and access through a single application. Cato provides centralized administration via our management application. Whose cloud is it anyway?

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Designed before the dawn of the commercial Internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the Internet infrastructure. Protect the availability and uptime of your infrastructure and applications. BGP Basics: Routes, Peers, and Paths.

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Kentik

APRIL 19, 2023

They heavily rely on BGP (Border Gateway Protocol, the protocol that networks use to exchange routes) to define which cache an end user is directed to. Higher demand means the need for bandwidth will justify more servers, which again means more disk space will be available to cache more content.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Modern websites and applications are extremely complex, built on and integrating on a mix of frameworks, platforms, services, and tools. Third-party services and platforms are also used by websites and applications to support things like analytics, content management, and marketing automation.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 17, 2021

SASE is a Secure Remote Access Solution Designed for the Modern Enterprise SASE converges Zero Trust Network Access, NextGen firewall (NGFW), and other security services along with network services such as SD-WAN, WAN optimization, and bandwidth aggregation into a cloud-native platform.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Large files or low bandwidth. Application Servers. API gateway. At this point, we store 1 DR copy in public cloud and 1 copy with us but eventually we will use our data center as a pass-through cache as compute is cheaper in the cloud but bandwidth is expensive. Document store. Video Transcoding. Permissions. Hybrid Sync.

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