CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud. ” Many businesses today are expanding globally, relying on data and applications in the cloud, and are driven by an increasingly mobile workforce.

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

What changed Over the last 15 years, though, the quality of the public internet has improved significantly. Yes, there’s something to say about how applications are written, but on the public internet side, we’ve seen a decrease in latency, cost, and a massive increase in available bandwidth. So where are we today?

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Engineering at Meta

MAY 22, 2024

Today, the internet (like most digital infrastructure in general) relies heavily on the security offered by public-key cryptosystems such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman (DH), and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). But the advent of quantum computers has raised real questions about the long-term privacy of data exchanged over the internet.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Which architectural approach will best serve your needs MPLS, public internet or cloud networks? With the rise of SaaS, the cloud, and continuous migration of business-critical applications to mobile and globalized business environment, secure and reasonably priced connections become vital for maintaining international business operations.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Not as difficult as time travel, but it’s difficult enough so that for 30+ years IT professionals have tried to skirt the issue by adding more bandwidth between locations or by rolling out faster routers and switches. Over the last few decades network managers have focused on adding bandwidth and reducing the network outages.

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Kentik

MARCH 26, 2018

SD-WANs are the confluence of four technology trends: software-defined networking in wide area networks (WANs), commodity hardware for customer premise equipment, Internet connectivity for business applications, and enterprise IT hybrid multi-cloud migration. The benefits of SD-WANs are compelling both economically and operationally.

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CATO Networks

MAY 4, 2020

While WAN optimization and acceleration are still important, increased bandwidth availability, cloud, and mobile have significantly shifted the paradigm. What is a WAN accelerator Simply put, a WAN accelerator is any hardware or software appliance that provides bandwidth optimization across a WAN. Here, well answer those questions.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 30, 2018

As our networks have evolved so to have the challenges of optimizing application performance. Bandwidth was expensive, which made every bit of performance essential (and, yes, pun intended). Bandwidth was expensive, which made every bit of performance essential (and, yes, pun intended).

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

SD-WANs reduce bandwidth costs, no doubt, but enterprises are still left having to address important issues around cloud, mobility, and security. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services. Bandwidth upgrades and changes can also take weeks.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 29, 2018

Where SD-WAN Falls Short And yet for all of the good cheer promised by SD-WAN, anyone whos tried to deliver a global network using the Internet must confront the problem of unpredictable SD-WAN performance. Few enterprises can risk sacrificing application performance and worker productivity in exchange for lowering their telecom costs.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 22, 2017

Per user bandwidth consumption has likely grown significantly since your organization adopted an MPLS-based WAN. Cloud services are as popular among users, if not more popular, than the corporate applications in the MPLS-connected, datacenters. Internet bandwidth, for example, can be a tenth of MPLS circuit bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

For SD-WAN s, the Internet has been their weakness. The lack of a global, SLA-backed backbone leaves SD-WANs unable to provide the consistent, predictable transport needed by real-time service and business-critical applications. Bandwidth was still provisioned in the old T1/T3/OC-3 increments.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

In this article, we will discuss some of the various policy objects that exist within the Cato Management Application and how they are used. Understanding Catos Management Application from Its Architecture To understand policy design within the Cato Management application, its useful to discuss some of Catos architecture.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The Dutch engineering company had built a global wide area network (WAN) out of MPLS and Internet services connecting 17 locations 14 in Europe and 3 in the Asia Pacific with about 800 mobile and field employees. Users increasingly complained about their Internet performance. MPLS was also limiting IT agility.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

Born alongside the expensive MPLS data service, WAN optimization appliances allowed organizations to squeeze more bandwidth out of thin pipes through compression and deduplication, as well as prioritizing traffic of loss-sensitive applications such as remote desktops.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 27, 2019

UCaaS offerings move unified communications capabilities integrated calling, conferencing, and messaging applications normally delivered from on-premises servers, into the cloud. Those seeing rising network costs typically purchase additional MPLS bandwidth from their existing WAN supplier(s).

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

Usually, one network service is MPLS while the other is typically an Internet connection. While some enterprises will have an active MPLS connection with an Internet/VPN connection for failover, hybrid WAN actively uses both connections. Regulatory constraints mandating MPLS can continue to be met.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

As critical business applications are moving to the cloud and with the wide adoption of SaaS and mobile applications in the workplace, connectivity becomes a crucial business asset with the direct effect on the bottom line. Particularly with SaaS, many business critical applications are no longer hosted in on-site data centers.

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CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

The core value proposition of SD-WAN is the use of a standard, low-cost Internet link to augment an expensive managed, low-latency and guaranteed capacity MPLS link. MPLS isnt encrypted by default: MPLS relies on the carrier private network for security because the data doesnt flow on the public Internet.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 18, 2019

Critical applications included cloud ERP and VoIP. When they signed the agreement with the MPLS provider, the solution seemed to be exactly what they needed to support their applications and uptime requirements. Nick wanted to add bandwidth, but for some sites, the MPLS provider offered only limited or no fiber connections.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

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. With information locked behind application silos, operational improvements, such as automation, becomes increasingly complex.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Todays businesses have vastly different internet connectivity requirements than those from even just a few years ago. MPLS offers guaranteed availability and optimized application performance, as well as high levels of latency and stability. But current options leave much to be desired. IDG/Network World Contributor Mike Smith.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2017

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. Start by addressing the core questions to know if the Internet can play a role in part or entirely as your next backbone.

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Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

Enterprises adopting SD-WAN are driven by key factors such as WAN cost savings, application performance improvement, management and operation simplification, and more. Best practices include: Baselining traffic bandwidths. Discovering what applications are running between sites, the internet, and to the data center.

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Packet Pushers

JUNE 18, 2021

Salesforce was able to trade MPLS for Internet broadband, get more bandwidth for less money, employ application-based steering and policy enforcement, and more. Salesforce was able to trade MPLS for Internet broadband, get more bandwidth for less money, employ application-based steering and policy enforcement, and more.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Jims research showed in part (check out the webinar for full details) how customer concerns around MPLS and those around the Internet are directly inverse of one another. With Internet services, security is of greatest concern. No surprise, I suppose, as MPLS costs can be more than 5x the cost of Internet bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Most enterprise data networks are still optimized for a computing model in which the bulk of applications reside in the datacenter. Internet access remains tightly controlled, with only large, or headquarters facilities having local Internet connectivity. The answer?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 5, 2021

Dive in with them as they demonstrate how to set bidirectional quality of service, utilize Catos Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) capabilities, and deep dive into bandwidth management and analytics. Watch as he defines ZTNA to specific hosts, applications, and users and demonstrates how access events are recorded and audited.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Slow or unpredictable application response time can cripple point of sale, customer service, manufacturing essentially every part of the business. For example, remote office employees needed access to latency sensitive enterprise applications like ERP, CRM and Virtual Desktops that were hosted in the companys data center.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

The WAN needs to offer high-performance and reliable network connectivity to ensure all users and applications can communicate effectively. As the WAN expands to include SaaS applications and cloud data centers, managing this environment becomes more challenging. Scalability: Reliance on hardware also makes them difficult to scale.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Users continue to require ever increasing amounts of bandwidth, an expensive resource for MPLS networks. Connecting to cloud datacenters and cloud applications either often becomes costly and difficult, or painfully slow with MPLS. Mobile users are still ignored by MPLS infrastructure. Mobile users are still ignored.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Paysafe decided to replace its mix of MPLS and Internet-based VPN with Cato Cloud to create a single converged network. For a fraction of the price, the Cato Cloud solution improved in performance compared to the Internet VPNs and is on par with MPLS. The solution reduced costs while increasing bandwidth.

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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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CATO Networks

JUNE 17, 2018

Although MPLS circuits are considerably more expensive than general Internet circuits, businesses have relied on MPLS networks for their dependability. Ultimately, the goal is to deliver just the right performance and uptime characteristics by taking advantage of the inexpensive public Internet. What are your options?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Much has been made about their high costs, long-time to deploy, and poor fit for running Internet and cloud traffic. SD-WAN Cost Savings Early marketing around SD-WAN technology pointed to the 90 percent cost difference between MPLS and Internet bandwidth costs. All of which increases last-mile costs.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Changes in our applications (cloud migration) and where users work (mobility) are driving the shift to software defined wide area networks ( SD-WANs ), but theyre also forcing us to rethink how we securely connect our users, application and data and deliver a compelling quality of experience.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a Next generation SDN solution and is designed for data centers spine-leaf architecture for the policy-driven solution. Cisco ACI provides application agility and data center automation with simplified operations. Adding spine switches increases fabric bandwidth.

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