CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

One prominent alternative is Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platforms with embedded Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) that alleviate the security dangers and other disadvantages of VPN. VPNs Put Remote Access Security at High Risk In general, VPNs provide minimal security with traffic encryption and simple user authentication.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Despite the relatively high costs, MPLS can deliver SLA-backed performance required for todays applications. SD-WAN is a flexible solution that integrates low-cost Internet transports into a virtual WAN connection. SD-WAN is a flexible solution that integrates low-cost Internet transports into a virtual WAN connection.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This stat struck a chord with me as it helps to quantify a common problem the Cato team works with customers to solve: reducing WAN latency. However, keeping WAN latency in check while using traditional solutions, like MPLS or VPN, with cloud services has become impractical. Well answer that here.

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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. They are faced with many options when making this decision, but one of the first that must be considered is whether to go with a hybrid WAN or SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

While SD-WANs are a valuable first step towards evolving the wide area network , they only address a small part of the dissolved enterprise perimeter challenge. Impact of the Dissolved Perimeter The traffic patterns driving SD-WAN adoption change how companies protect their users and data.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2018

With executives started to complain about being unable to access corporate resources when visiting other company offices, the IT team at Paysafe knew the time was ripe for WAN transformation. The company depended on local Active Directory (AD) servers at the locations for managing permissions to applications and other corporate resources.

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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. Streamlining the network security infrastructure and providing secure Internet access from any location were the top 2 reasons for moving to SD-WAN in 2018.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Marketers have their brochures; engineers have their test reports, but nothing is more compelling when selecting an SD-WAN than real-life experience. Todays blog takes a look at some challenges real customers faced with their WAN infrastructure, and how Cato Networks was able to help. The proof truly is in the pudding, as they say.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The market for SD-WAN has been driven in part by its ability to reduce bandwidth costs and improve the performance of cloud access. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. This amicable live-and-let-live separation falls apart with todays SD-WAN.

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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. Like so many technologies, though, there are the promises of SD-WANs and then there are the realities of SD-WANs. SD-WANs automate these and other steps.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

WAN Transformation: SD-WAN Cost and ROI Analysis Its no secret that traditional wide area networks (WANs) have to change. But cost reductions, in particular, that are often promised with the successor to traditional WANs, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), is often misleading.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

A recent conversation with a WAN engineer got me thinking about how network optimization techniques have changed over the years. Traditional WAN optimization tools do little to help address these challenges, as theyre simply designed to reduce bandwidth consumption. WAN optimization appliances couldnt fix that trombone problem.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Luckily, SD-WAN can be configured to prioritize business-critical traffic and real-time services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and then effectively steer it over the most efficient route. 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

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

However, when it comes to SD-WAN technology it is difficult to ignore its obvious benefits. Dont take our word for it, heres what 9 leading industry experts have to say on the benefits of SD-WAN for enterprise networking: Is SD-WAN the future of networking? Enterprise networking experts often disagree on many things.

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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

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. I couldnt trust them to manage the SD-WAN, says Dell.

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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. Applications, data, and services lived within private datacenters and relied on remote access solutions to connect remote workers.

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2018

The appliance form factor including the cost of hardware, software, and expert staff to maintain it is a burden which SD-WAN eliminates with Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). They connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). MPLS was not designed for this new reality.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

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. Cloud applications were starved for bandwidth as they were backhauled across a 10 Mbits/s connection to the datacenter.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

They are moving their datacenters to the cloud, using more and more SaaS products, and moving their networking ( SD-WAN ) and security ( FWaaS ) to cloud-based solutions. WAN transformation is one such example. The WAN Is Incompatible with Todays Business The legacy WAN is misaligned with the way business gets done today.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 21, 2019

For global companies still operating with a legacy WAN architecture, WAN modernization is mandatory today for a variety of reasons. When it comes to modern cloud-based applications, a poor network will result in a poor experience. SD-WAN is a very broad category. Global companies have unique networking needs.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 10, 2023

In addition to security applications, this data can also provide insight into how corporate IT assets are being used and inform infrastructure design and investment. VPNs are a well-established remote access solution, and many organizations turned to them to support their remote employees.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Challenge The WAN for J.s company is based on full mesh VPN tunnels over the internet between commercial firewalls. We moved our WAN to Cato because my organizations strategic ERP application was moved to the cloud, and our legacyWAN was too rigid to support that move and meet the project timeline.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If mobile VPN seems a persistent pain in the-you-know-where, youre not alone. During the webinar, we asked participants about their mobile VPN challenges. The problem will only grow as companies shift their datacenters and applications to the cloud. Cato Cloud is a fundamentally different kind of SD-WAN that avoids these issues.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

User complaints about slow VPN access have been with us forever. Mobile users struggle to gain global access to business applications using legacy mobile VPN clients. He developed an architecture that improved remote application performance and increased his visibility and control.

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Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

When more of the workforce shifts to working remotely, it puts new and different strains on the infrastructure across different parts of the network, especially where VPN gateways connect to the network edge. This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN).

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CATO Networks

JULY 30, 2024

CISOs have realized their traditional security architectures, specifically VPNs, are no longer adequate to ensure only authorized users have access to critical resources. This has made the role of CISO ever more important because we now have applications everywhere and people everywhere, leading to increased cyber threats everywhere.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? Heres a list of the key acronyms to help you keep up with the latest in WAN transformation. By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet.

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Kentik

JUNE 27, 2023

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many companies that already offered VPN services to a small group of remote workers scurried to extend those capabilities to the much larger workforce sequestering at home. VPNs are certainly one option, but not the only one. Other choices include appliance-based SD-WAN and SASE. Lets have a look at each approach.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2017

With any new technology theres fake news and SD-WANs are no exception. Its true, SD-WANs probably wont reduce your WAN costs by 90 percent or make WANs so simple a 12-year old can deploy them. SD-WANs allow us to do the same with the WAN. but lets not get picky) with multipoint IPsec tunnels.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Withenterprisesmigrating to the cloud andadoptinga work-from-anywhere model,BCPtoday must also include continual access to cloud applications and support for remote users. Yet, the traditional network architecture (MPLS connectivity, VPN servers, etc.) wasnt built with cloud services and remote users in mind.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 5, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak led to a surge in business VPN usage in an extremely short timeframe. In fact, multiple regions saw VPN usage rise over 200% in a matter of weeks. However, as they settle into the new normal, many enterprises are also learning that there are several VPN disadvantages as well. Lets find out.

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Kentik

JUNE 21, 2021

For AWS cloud networks, the Transit Gateway provides a way to route traffic to and from VPCs, regions, VPNs, Direct Connect, SD-WANs, etc. Applications often need connectivity between workloads in different VPCs and regions as well as to and from on-premises environments (e.g., Entry point for on-premises SD-WAN connections.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, on the user side, enterprises are grappling with the limitations of VPNs, which were once the go-to solution for secure remote access. The VPN Dilemma VPNs, while effective for basic remote access, often fall short in addressing the evolving security and performance needs of modern enterprises.

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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. This approach is mostly chosen by companies that dont want to compromise on security and also need WAN access.

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

Much the way containerization and cloud computing called for the advent of site reliability engineers (SREs) in application development, the complexity of cloud networks has led to the rise of network reliability engineers (NREs). Top talkers are often the cause of outages for application stacks.

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