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

MARCH 2, 2023

This is something that MPLS does not provide because it cannot support the cloud evolution that the manufacturing industry is experiencing. Additionally, global expansion is a major challenge due to the cost and complexity of turning up new sites, especially in locations where MPLS is not easy for carriers to offer and support.

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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

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

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. For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection.

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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. Our 2018 survey included over 700 respondents from IT enterprises that currently run MPLS backbones. Forty-two percent said it reduced the cost of MPLS service.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Converged functionalities include SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS), cloud-access security broker (CASB), DLP and secure web gateway (SWG). SASE reduces the risk of cybersecurity breaches and enables global access to applications and systems.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

With Cato, the costs of our connection to Mexico alone dropped more than 80%, and we received twice the capacity, says Kevin McDaid, systems manager Fisher and Company, a leading manufacturer who replaced its global MPLS with Cato Cloud, an MPLS alternative.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. SD-WAN ROI Driver #1: Reducing MPLS Connectivity Costs Enterprises have long invested in managed MPLS services to connect locations. With SD-WAN, companies avoid consuming expensive MPLS capacity on Internet traffic.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2017

Our applications and data live outside the safe confines of our datacenters in the cloud. Our data and resources are still siloed behind different disciplines and applications, depriving us of the holistic view that could automate and transform the enterprise. The classical network perimeter has long vanished. Check Point.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. MPLS improves the performance and reliability of traffic flows, yet remains an expensive, rigid solution with limited capacity.

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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. Using an MPLS network and routing the traffic over a reliable network.

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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

JULY 26, 2022

The new darling of the networking industry would free us from the shackles of legacy MPLS services. It was cute, shiny, and taught enterprises how to walk — walk away, that is, from MPLS to a network designed for the new world. It would give us even more more security, better remote access, and faster deployment.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Middle-Mile Network Optimization Techniques: Reducing Latency In the past, MPLS provided enterprises with low-latency, albeit expensive, connectivity between sites. WAN optimization appliances emerged to solve that problem, providing the means to extract the maximum usage out of available MPLS capacity.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Googles recent announcement of the GCP Network Connectivity Center (NCC) joins other similar services such as Amazons AWS Transit Gateway and Microsofts Azure Virtual WAN. Enterprises have been relying on MPLS circuits to ensure connection quality between their offices and datacenters. Cato SASE Cloud.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Migration of applications to the cloud had been going on for a decade, offloading complex datacenter operations away from IT, and in that way increasing business resiliency and agility. Cloud access control and sensitive data protection (CASB/DLP) The adoption of public cloud applications enables users to get work done faster.

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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. Utilize Ethernet for Cloud Connectivity Cloud services can be accessed via private connectivity via Ethernet and MPLS, providing more predictable performance.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

I read with some surprise the interview with Zscalers CEO, Jay Chaudry, in CRN where he stated that the network firewalls will go the way of the mainframe, that the network is just plumbing and that Zscaler proxy overlay architecture will replace it with its application switchboard. Zscaler offered a secure web gateway (SWG) as a service.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

The PoP is just a connection point a gateway, of sorts where the external world (i.e., 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?

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It is the networking equivalent of a killer application that allows companies to use a variety of transport mechanisms besides MPLS and to steer traffic according to business priorities. SD-WAN provides optimal traffic routing over multiple transport media, including MPLS, broadband Ethernet, 4G LTE, DSL, or a combination thereof.

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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 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

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? As a result, networks need to adapt to the new requirements of the increased use of cloud applications. And here is where SD-WAN steps in.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Secure Access Service Edge “ Analysis By: Joe Skorupa; Neil MacDonald Definition: The secure access service edge (SASE) are emerging converged offerings combining WAN capabilities with network security functions (such as secure web gateway, CASB and SDP) to support the needs of digital enterprises.

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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

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. Secure Web Gateway (SWG).

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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 capabilities include access control, threat protection, data security, and security monitoring.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The applications and infrastructure pillars of IT were continuously displaced by cloud-based services. The PoPs are built to optimize and secure incoming multi-gig traffic from all users and locations to on-premises and cloud applications. Cloud Service vs. Point Products In 2015, the cloud disruption was already in full swing.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Once the direct connection is established, typically via Ethernet or MPLS, all sites are able to reach the UCaaS providers datacenter without having to traverse enterprise Internet connection points. SD-WAN virtualizes available access circuits, routing traffic over the ideal path for a given application type.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

The need for 5 Gbps is happening on the most intensive, heavily used network connections within the enterprise, such as connections to data centers, between clouds in multi-cloud deployments, or to clouds housing shared applications, databases, and data stores in hybrid clouds.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Thousands of Cato SPACEs enable the Cato SASE Cloud to deliver the complete set of networking and security capabilities to any user or application, anywhere in the world, at cloud scale, and as a service that is self-healing and self-maintaining. An independent consultant recently tested iPerf performance across Cato, MPLS, and the Internet.

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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. MPLS services are SLA-backed with five nines uptime. Minimize Latency Undermining UCaaS Its no secret that latency is the enemy of call quality.

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CATO Networks

MAY 20, 2020

This change not only drove a shift away from MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) , it changed how security is implemented within enterprise networks. Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Web-borne malware is one of the biggest threats facing enterprise networks today.

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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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