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Why Traditional MPLS Networks are Ill-Suited for UCaaS

CATO Networks

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) adoption is on the rise in the enterprise and with that comes significant impact for IT managers considering how their MPLS network transformation. Most enterprise data networks are still optimized for a computing model in which the bulk of applications reside in the datacenter. The answer?

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The business case for SD-WAN: Because MPLS is Not Fit for the Cloud

CATO Networks

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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4 Ways to Secure Your Cloud Datacenter

CATO Networks

But before you can unleash the power of Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure , or any other Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, you need to get to the cloud, and thats a lot harder than it sounds. Continuing to backhaul Internet and cloud traffic adds too much latency and consumes costly MPLS bandwidth. You can read the eBook here.

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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

CATO Networks

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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How To Best Design Your WAN for Accessing AWS, Azure, and the Cloud

CATO Networks

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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The 4 Values of SD-WAN

CATO Networks

The network perimeter has dissolved with IaaS, SaaS, and mobile users breaking that barrier and shifting more traffic to the Internet. MPLS was not designed for this new reality. SD-WAN Value in Traffic Enterprises rely on MPLS because of its predictable performance is backed by an SLA. The provider offered only a 1.5

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Is SD-WAN Really Dead?

CATO Networks

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. Native cloud connectivity within the PoPs connects IaaS and SaaS resources.

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