CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

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. As a result, SD-WAN adopters have remained chained to their MPLS services, paying exorbitant bandwidth fees just to deliver these core applications.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2018

MPLS has been a popular choice for enterprise networks for many years. Despite the relatively high costs, MPLS can deliver SLA-backed performance required for todays applications. Myth 2: The Entire Network Needs to be Built with MPLS Businesses have embraced cloud applications for ease of access and lower costs.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

More specifically, t he rise of WAN optimization began around 2004 and addressed the limitations of the limited capacity of costly MPLS and leased line connections. To ensure applications dont hog the capacity of a connection, WAN optimization appliances will also prioritize application traffic.

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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. All policies are managed within Catos management application.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues. Security between locations, though, was not an issue provided the WAN was based, as most were, on a private MPLS service.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

MPLS networks have been the standard configuration for enterprise networks for years, providing predictability and availability. However dependable, MPLS comes with its own set of challenges, such as expensive connectivity and long deployment times. In fact with active/active configurations, SD-WAN can provide better uptime than MPLS.

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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. Performance MPLS was the top dog in enterprise WAN before cloud-computing and mobile smart devices exploded in popularity.

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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. For MPLS services, customers were most concerned about cost, uptime and latency. This is particularly important as business applications move to the cloud (e.g.

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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. Cant Eliminate MPLS All too often, the cost savings of SD-WAN stem from the expectation of eliminating a carriers costly MPLS service. The reality is very different.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

With SD-WAN, organizations can deliver more responsive, more predictable applications at lower cost in less time than the managed MPLS services traditionally used by the enterprise. SD-WAN does this by separating applications from the underlying network services with a policy-based, virtual overlay.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network elements, including branch locations, the mobile workforce, and physical and cloud datacenters, into a global, encrypted and optimized SD-WAN in the cloud. Enterprises connect to the Cato Cloud Network via any last mile transport (Internet, MPLS, 4G/LTE).

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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

JULY 7, 2022

In some cases, it might be an MPLS network, which is no longer suitable (or affordable) for the modern digital business. Pulling traffic back to some site for security inspection and enforcement adds latency , killing the application experience. Encrypted tunnels across these last-mile transport carry traffic to nearest PoP.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

MPLS-based services are under pressure from emerging Internet-based solutions. With MPLS revenue streams at risk, the carriers are pursuing a two-prong strategy: augmenting MPLS with Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) and adding value-add services to the core network with Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture offering optimized traffic routing over multiple different media (broadband, MPLS, 5G/LTE, etc.). MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) routes traffic over telecommunications networks using short path labels instead of longer network addresses.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Traditional hub-and-spoke networking has enterprises backhauling WAN traffic from branches over MPLS circuits to a central site and applying security policies before sending the traffic to the cloud or the public Internet. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2018

The cloud has become an inseparable part of the IT enterprise as more applications make the transition to the cloud. Initially, SD-WAN was driven by the need for cost-saving since WAN infrastructure, MPLS, in particular, can be quite expensive. SD-WAN provides encrypted Internet tunnels for traffic traversing the WAN.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

2: Global Connectivity and Performance Manufacturers often rely on MPLS networks that lack the ability to address their modern needs, like global connectivity to various remote locations, flexibility, scalability, and real-time support of high data volumes. It also improved Flggers ability to securely integrate new partners.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

No longer an emerging technology, cloud computing is now used in everything from applications, storage, and networking. With vendors like Amazon AWS and applications like Office 365, the cloud computing market is projected to reach $411B by 2020. Cloud computing has been an integral part of the modern enterprise for some time.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 7, 2019

Those might be MPLS services or Internet last-mile services, such as DSL, cable, and 4G. Long latencies of Internet routing can be quite problematic for applications like voice, video and unified communications. Cato performance was so good it was nearly identical to that of MPLS at a fraction of the cost.

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WAN Internet MPLS Cloud 52

CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2016

SD-WAN uses a software-based control plane to drive on-premise edge devices to dynamically allocate Wide Area Network (WAN) traffic between MPLS and Internet links. SD-WAN is effective because it is self-contained (i.e. does not require standards and cross-vendor cooperation) and addresses a narrow IT problem.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to SD-WAN, he concedes: Theres a huge business case that SD-WAN products are aiming to solve: replacing traditional MPLS/VPN networks with encrypted transport over public Internet.Internet access is often orders of magnitude cheaper than traditional circuits. This results in a better total cost of ownership (TCO).

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

As critical applications migrate into Microsoft Azure, enterprises are challenged with building a WAN that can deliver the necessary cloud performance without dramatically increasing costs and complexity. Azure SD-WANs MPLS and SD-WAN Problem When organizations start relying on Azure, two problems become increasingly apparent.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

Earlier last month, we announced that Cato reached a new SASE throughput record , achieving 5 Gbps on a single encrypted tunnel with all security inspections fully enabled. Companies need encrypted, secure high throughput between their clouds or to the central data centers in their hybrid deployments.

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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. It is easy for an enterprise to fall into a false sense of security because they can view all the traffic traversing MPLS links.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Appliance-based SD-WAN and MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) simply arent designed to address these use cases. MPLS was designed to provide dedicated, reliable, and high-performance connections between two endpoints before cloud and mobile took over the world. SD-WAN appliances are not security appliances. Secure Web Gateway (SWG).

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WAN Cloud MPLS Encryption 40

CATO Networks

OCTOBER 23, 2019

DG: Whats the biggest risk enterprises face when migrating from MPLS to SD-WAN? DG: Is WAN transformation only about replacing MPLS for you? FS: Well, I think architecturally theres a big difference [ between MPLS and SD-WAN ]. DG: What are the security implications of moving away from MPLS?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2018

According to a July 2017 report from market-research firm IDC , SD-WAN adoption is seeing remarkable growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications. Applications are grouped into classes, such as voice/video, business-critical, or best effort. and reach $8.05 and reach $8.05

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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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SASE Network Networking WAN 52

CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Often, VPNs makes sense at a small scale or for one-off applications. Internet-based VPN gained popularity over the last decade in part as a lower-cost, albeit flawed, alternative to MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching). The upside here was simple: public Internet bandwidth is significantly cheaper than MPLS bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

It would typically be bound for a SaaS application perhaps one that isnt hosted in the same region or to your own datacenter or another branch office (i.e., Are we able to prioritize our key applications, use cases and workloads into our network? As a result, critical applications like voice can really suffer in this model.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Components of SSE Like SASE, SSE offerings converge cloud-centric security capabilities to facilitate secure access to the web, cloud services, and private applications. SSE is the half of secure access service edge (SASE) focusing on the convergence of security services; networking convergence forms the other half of SASE.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Other applications set to benefit from this kind of wireless network performance and scalability include enhanced mobile broadband, enterprise communications, autonomous vehicles, telemedicine, augmented reality (AR), connected homes, and industrial automation. 5G and SDN Capabilities Intersect.

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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. For example, if some branch locations are not connected via MPLS , separate firewalls may be required, forcing security administrators to manage separate network security policies.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

SD-WAN isn’t built to improve security, but instead address the rigidity, capacity constraints, and high costs of MPLS. Security in the context of SD-WAN was needed to encrypt the SD-WAN overlay tunnels over the Internet. Security was never a strength of SD-WAN companies and legacy telcos.

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WAN Firewall Network Security Internet 52

CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2018

MPLS, SD-WAN and Cloud Networks: The path to a better, secure and more affordable WAN In this webinar, enterprise networking expert Dr. Jim Metzler from Webtorials, and Yishay Yovel, VP Marketing at Cato Networks, discuss the options available to enterprise IT networking and security teams to architect a secure WAN.

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