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

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Three Asia Pacific locations established virtual private network (VPN) tunnels across direct Internet access (DIA) connections to the Amsterdam datacenter. Cloud applications were starved for bandwidth as they were backhauled across a 10 Mbits/s connection to the datacenter. MPLS was also limiting IT agility.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, on the user side, enterprises are grappling with the limitations of VPNs, which were once the go-to solution for secure remote access. The VPN Dilemma VPNs, while effective for basic remote access, often fall short in addressing the evolving security and performance needs of modern enterprises.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Enterprise Solutions for Secure Remote Access There are three primary enterprise-grade solutions that businesses use today for secure remote access: Virtual Private Network (VPN); Zero Trust Network Access ( ZTNA ); and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). VPNs provide point-to-point connectivity.

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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. This can be achieved in two ways:: Establishing a VPN connection to traffic from each location using an appliance.

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Akins IT

JUNE 30, 2017

From here, the device can be pre-loaded and personalized for each student, while also giving the greatest level of protection since all the applications can be monitored and maintained. Connect through a VPN. Requiring VPN access is a good way to keep students on your systems network both inside the classroom and outside of it.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The way business gets done today requires on-demand access to various company locations, and business applications both inside local datacenters and in the Cloud. Standard network and security measures are no longer adequate to support modern business needs.

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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. SD-WANs automate these and other steps.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

While some enterprises will have an active MPLS connection with an Internet/VPN connection for failover, hybrid WAN actively uses both connections. Hybrid WAN Pros and Cons Pros of Hybrid WAN Hybrid WAN configurations allow for easy increase in bandwidth by inserting Internet connections alongside an existing MPLS network.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bye, bye VPN. I dont know about you but Ive never liked my mobile VPN. The Cato mobile client works faster than any VPN Ive experienced. In the days before we enabled bandwidth throttling, a worker started to upload 520 GB of files to Amazon S3, hogging the sites upstream capacity.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 14, 2019

VPN has proven to be a popular solution for site-to-site connectivity. However, as demonstrated in this case study of a software security company expanding to Europe , VPN has a number of downsides that limit its practical applications. With Cato, the complexity of VPN and lengthy MPLS provisioning times are a thing of the past.

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2018

This new type of next-generation firewall allows an entire organization to be connected to a single, logical global firewall with a unified application-aware security policy. They connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). The provider offered only a 1.5

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CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

SD-WAN also promises to reduce the management complexity of this hybrid WAN, which naturally increases with the need to mix and match connection types, and dynamically allocate application traffic. A very common alternative architecture is to use firewalls to establish Internet-based VPN tunnels between enterprise locations.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

With information locked behind application silos, operational improvements, such as automation, becomes increasingly complex. The team should include line-of-business members, application team leads, as well as networking, security and mobility representatives. Each service comes with its own cost structure and capabilities.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

VPNs were the primary method of connectivity for road warriors and people who occasionally worked from home or away from the office. It was standard procedure for an enterprise to build VPN capacity for a small percentage of its workforce. Workers were encouraged to just connect any way you can. Security is a concern as well.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

Remote Workers Need Network Access Comparable to In-Office Workers To accommodate the sudden surge of home-based workers, network managers might have ordered a slew of new VPN licenses, and maybe even a larger firewall or VPN appliance, to connect people to the corporate network.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By facilitating critical applications through reliable, high performance connections, IT teams can help reduce packet loss and latency issues, thus improving employee productivity, and boosting staff spirits. Bottom line - MPLS bandwidth is expensive. State of Cybercrime survey. REDUCES COSTS.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

However, keeping WAN latency in check while using traditional solutions, like MPLS or VPN, with cloud services has become impractical. The higher the latency, the worse application performance will be. As bandwidth demands increase, MPLS costs will become more and more prohibitive.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

SD-WAN Cost Savings Early marketing around SD-WAN technology pointed to the 90 percent cost difference between MPLS and Internet bandwidth costs. In other cases, SD-WAN, over the open Internet, lack the consistent loss and jitter characteristics needed to run high-quality, enterprise voice and other loss- and latency-sensitive applications.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The company has critical ERP and VoIP applications that run in the cloud. One problem stemmed from overuse of the bandwidth at certain peak times, prompting the need for more bandwidth. We needed connectivity to our OEMs, and our vendor could not get a simple VPN tunnel from the cloud firewalls to our customer.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 27, 2018

The rise of mobile devices, combined with the shift to cloud based platforms, means that many networks no longer have a clear perimeter, where all applications and users could be jointly protected against cyber-attacks. When all users need to connect to central location to access cloud applications, performance and latency issues arise.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional VPN solutions enable connectivity for mobile and remote employees but do little to enable the same visibility and control possible on-premises. At the most granular, enterprises may strive to achieve visibility down to the packet, user, and application level.

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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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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

This predictability is beneficial for applications requiring reliable connectivity. Low Overhead : Static routes do not consume bandwidth for routing updates or require additional CPU resources to compute paths. VPN Configurations : In Virtual Private Network (VPN) setups, static routes direct traffic over secure tunnels.

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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

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. They had IPsec VPN from each store to the datacenter. An overwhelming 78 percent said they use at least one cloud application such as Office 365.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 21, 2019

Many businesses have spent millions of dollars increasing their level of application and computer agility through the use of cloud resources, and now its time to update the network with a software-defined WAN. When it comes to modern cloud-based applications, a poor network will result in a poor experience.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2017

Short-term connections can be set up with 4G/LTE and, depending on the service, mobile users can be connected with VPN clients. Policies allow for zero-touch provisioning and deployment Policies also guide application behavior, making it easier to deliver new services across the WAN without adversely impacting the network.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Most often, its an unrealistic assumption that applications in software on standard platforms will meet the throughput and latency demands without allocating considerable CPU resources. A virtual device representing a service demarcation might thus have a VPN VNF, a firewall VNF, and so forth.

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Kentik

JUNE 4, 2019

Facebook, for example, delivers not only a social web application, but also live video, two messaging applications, Instagram, and a gaming application. This underscores the value to ISPs of being able to see beyond CDNs to identify the true providers of their bandwidth-heavy traffic.

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