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Sign of the Times: Time to Eliminate Your Dependence on MPLS and Switch to SD-WAN

CATO Networks

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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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. It was designed for permanent, static locations connected via expensive, MPLS links. IT no longer has to own generic infrastructure and invest the resources just to keep the lights on.

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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.

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