CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

MPLS cost reduction is the target of the emerging SD-WAN market that is bustling with solutions looking to take the corporate wide area network to a whole new level. The core value proposition of SD-WAN is the use of a standard, low-cost Internet link to augment an expensive managed, low-latency and guaranteed capacity MPLS link.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

MPLS is a reliable routing technique that ensures efficiency and high performance. However, global changes like remote work, mobile connectivity and cloud-based infrastructure require businesses to reconsider their MPLS network strategy. What is MPLS? What is MPLS? How does MPLS Work?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Its about a year before your MPLS contract expires, and youve been told to cut costs by your CFO. That MPLS too expensive. Naturally, its your job to find a solution… There actually could be several reasons why its time to pull the plug on your MPLS, or at least, consider MPLS alternatives. Find an alternative.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Slow or unpredictable application response time can cripple point of sale, customer service, manufacturing essentially every part of the business. MPLS is a 20 years old enterprise networking technology. Guaranteed service levels come at a price with MPLS spend representing a big part of the IT networking budget.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

We expected other drivers, such as MPLS cost reduction, eliminating bandwidth constraints, or optimizing cloud access, to be at the top of the list. Because SD-WAN is a code name for MPLS WAN transformation project. MPLS WANs were never designed with security, and specifically, threat protection, as a core feature.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud. ” Many businesses today are expanding globally, relying on data and applications in the cloud, and are driven by an increasingly mobile workforce.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

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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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. 1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries? The way we do business is changing.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 18, 2019

The IT manager at a leading automotive components manufacturer recently shared his experience transitioning his company from MPLS to Cato SD-WAN. Critical applications included cloud ERP and VoIP. Before moving to SD-WAN, the company used an MPLS provider that managed everything. Whats transitioning like to SD-WAN?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

As the company grew, Alewijnse found MPLS connectivity to be increasingly unable meet its business requirements. The Dutch engineering company had built a global wide area network (WAN) out of MPLS and Internet services connecting 17 locations 14 in Europe and 3 in the Asia Pacific with about 800 mobile and field employees.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

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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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Multinational corporations have traditionally needed global MPLS services to build their WAN. By leveraging the power of distributed software, plentiful IP capacity, and off-the-shelf hardware, SD-WAN as a service provides a reliable, flexible, and inexpensive alternative to MPLS. Corporate applications are increasingly in the cloud.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 13, 2020

If you are about to renew your MPLS contract, or if you need to upgrade your capacitySTOP! Dont commit to another year of MPLS until youve had time to consider if its the right technology to carry your business forward. Modern enterprises now have alternatives to MPLS that are more flexible and just as reliable for building a WAN.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2017

The Search for Affordable MPLS Alternative Global organizations are looking for SD-WAN services to provide an affordable, MPLS alternative. If you are already using MPLS, you are well aware of its challenges: high costs, rigidity, long time to deploy and incompatibility with the growing demand for direct cloud and internet access.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Which architectural approach will best serve your needs MPLS, public internet or cloud networks? With the rise of SaaS, the cloud, and continuous migration of business-critical applications to mobile and globalized business environment, secure and reasonably priced connections become vital for maintaining international business operations.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Nick Dell is an IT manager who recently led a network transformation initiative at his company, moving from MPLS to SD-WAN. Dell shared why he made that transition and the lessons he learned along the way in the webinar SD-WAN Confessions: How I migrated from MPLS to SD-WAN. Issues arose about a year into the MPLS contract.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2018

Over the years, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) had left Paysafe with a mix of offices connected by MPLS and Internet-based VPNs. The company depended on local Active Directory (AD) servers at the locations for managing permissions to applications and other corporate resources. MPLS was no better.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 15, 2017

And, by enterprise networking we mean the use of MPLS at the core of enterprise networks. So, to SD-WAN or to MPLS? MPLS Pros and Cons If you are an MPLS customer, you are familiar with the benefits and challenges of the technology. The MPLS architecture and its guarantees are now under pressure.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 29, 2018

Few enterprises can risk sacrificing application performance and worker productivity in exchange for lowering their telecom costs. You can play it safe by retaining a pricey MPLS circuit at each branch location and configuring your SD-WAN to route latency-sensitive traffic over it when Internet links are congested.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2017

MPLS networks: pros and cons MPLS is the defacto choice for most enterprises, and for a good reason. MPLS offers guaranteed availability and optimized application performance, as well as high levels of latency and stability. A typical MPLS network install can take months to order, install, and implement.

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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

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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Akins IT

OCTOBER 26, 2001

Market adoption is growing rapidly, and industry experts have declared a winner in the SD-WAN vs MPLS debate. For example, Network World called 2018 the year of SD-WAN , and before the end of Q3 2018 Gartner declared SD-WAN is killing MPLS. SO WHAT IS SD-WAN? Whats driving all the excitement around SD-WAN?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2018

Historically, MPLS was the default WAN choice to maximize uptime and ensure predictable network behavior. But, MPLS was expensive and subject to capacity and availability constraints. But, MPLS was expensive and subject to capacity and availability constraints. Yet, these users have the same needs for optimal global access.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 30, 2018

As our networks have evolved so to have the challenges of optimizing application performance. WAN optimization was designed to overcome the limitations of MPLS-based networks. WAN optimization compensated for the latency and limited bandwidth of MPLS.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

Most enterprise WANs have historically used MPLS, but with the proliferation of cloud resources and mobile users, organizations are realizing the need to facilitate more flexible connectivity. Usually, one network service is MPLS while the other is typically an Internet connection.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 17, 2018

MPLS networks have been the backbone of enterprise networks for years. Although MPLS circuits are considerably more expensive than general Internet circuits, businesses have relied on MPLS networks for their dependability. MPLS networks are known and relied upon for high uptime, with a target of five-nines (99.999%) uptime.

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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

MAY 14, 2018

Scarred by slow, rigid and complex technologies, like MPLS, and complex command line interfaces, networking professionals are turning to SD-WAN to usher in an era of automated and intelligent networks. Many organizations procure MPLS services to maximize the availability and uptime of the network.

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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

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

JUNE 16, 2022

5 Questions to Ask Your SASE Provider | eBook Use Case #1: MPLS Migration to SD-WAN SASE can support running MPLS alongside SD-WAN. In this first use case, enterprises leverage SASEs SD-WAN functionalities, while turning off MPLS sites at their own schedule. In this use case, MPLS is augmented with SASE security.

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Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

Enterprises adopting SD-WAN are driven by key factors such as WAN cost savings, application performance improvement, management and operation simplification, and more. Discovering what applications are running between sites, the internet, and to the data center. Visualize all transport (MPLS, internet, LTE, etc.)

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CATO Networks

APRIL 11, 2016

Historically, the performance and cost hit associated with backhauling Internet traffic was limited because the use of Internet-based applications was limited. This increase will overload expensive WAN links (such MPLS) and make the negative user experience impact, the so-called Trombone Effect, more profound.

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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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CATO Networks

JANUARY 22, 2017

Its not just about cutting the cost of their existing MPLS-based WANs. Todays business has evolved significantly since the adoption of MPLS-based WANs. Per user bandwidth consumption has likely grown significantly since your organization adopted an MPLS-based WAN. Mobile users and the cloud are ignored by MPLS.

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