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A New Approach to SD-WAN Management

CATO Networks

Internet performance simply fluctuates too much moment-to-moment and day-to-day, particularly when connections cross between backbones or Internet regions, to deliver the predictable performance needed for enterprise-grade voice and other critical applications. Simple changes, such as firewall rules, could take a couple of days.

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The Co-Managed SD-WAN: A Managed Infrastructure with Self-Service Capabilities for Agility

CATO Networks

Branches that have their own direct connection to the Internet will require a full stack of security services, including next-generation firewall, intrusion detection/intrusion prevention, sandboxing, and so on. Moreover, SD-WAN appliances dont address the needs of mobile users and are inherently unsuitable for native cloud applications.

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The 4 Drivers in the Journey to Full WAN Transformation

CATO Networks

This is why enterprises increasingly turn to service providers and the cloud to run compute, storage, networking, and security. As we migrate our businesses to cloud datacenters or public-cloud applications, our legacy WAN architectures and optimizations cant effectively support the new hybrid environment.

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