CATO Networks

JULY 24, 2023

SASE = SD-WAN + SSE. It identifies two elements that underpin SASE , namely the network access technology ( SD-WAN ) and secure internet access ( Security Service Edge (SSE) ). The East-West WAN traffic visibility gap : SASE converges two separate disciplines: the Wide Area Network and Network Security.

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Juniper

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Setting HPEs intent to acquire Juniper aside for a moment (which is still on track to close by early 2025), we have been relentlessly innovating our AI-Native Networking Platform and consistently delivering on our go-to-market goals across our enterprise, service provider, and cloud segments.

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Network Networking Wide Area Network Data Centers 83

CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

After all, without the network, todays technology-powered businesses are dead in the water. The network doesnt have to be totally down, though, to disrupt the business. Slow or unpredictable application response time can cripple point of sale, customer service, manufacturing essentially every part of the business.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2018

Weve long touted the benefits of a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) so its encouraging to see that enterprises are increasingly recognizing its value. IDC recently surveyed mid-market enterprises and found they are rapidly embracing SD-WAN infrastructure and services.

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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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WAN MPLS Internet Bandwidth 52

CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Cato Cloud a 2017 Internet Telephony SD-WAN Excellence Award. The award is given to companies that demonstrate the innovation, vision, and execution to deliver software-based networking tools to support different and unique communities of interest.

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WAN Wide Area Network MPLS Internet 52

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. Software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) can get the job done.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2018

IT organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). The IDC report estimates that worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure and services revenues will see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 69.6% and reach $8.05 billion in 2021. and reach $8.05

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WAN Wide Area Network Data Centers Application 52

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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WAN MPLS Network Security Internet 52

CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Enterprise networking experts often disagree on many things. 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?

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WAN Network Networking Wide Area Network 52

CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

Many organizations today are choosing to migrate to SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network), because it can eliminate the challenges of MPLS networks. SD-WAN brings software defined networking (SDN) to the WAN, improving WAN management and increasing cost savings when compared against MPLS.

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WAN MPLS Wide Area Network Network Security 52

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. Mobile security was an issue and another area ignored by MLPS. But they rejected the idea.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 17, 2018

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is making organizations rethink their WAN infrastructure. With features like load balancing and measuring the real-time transport quality of each circuit, SD-WAN provides the high uptime businesses demand by using a mix of Internet connections.

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WAN MPLS Internet Bandwidth 52

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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WAN MPLS Bandwidth Internet 52

CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Multinational corporations have traditionally needed global MPLS services to build their WAN. That has changed now that secure, global SD-WAN as a Service is available worldwide. Service level agreements are a key part of global MPLS networks. Corporate applications are increasingly in the cloud.

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MPLS WAN Wide Area Network Internet 52

CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

No longer an emerging technology, cloud computing is now used in everything from applications, storage, and networking. With vendors like Amazon AWS and applications like Office 365, the cloud computing market is projected to reach $411B by 2020. Cloud computing has been an integral part of the modern enterprise for some time.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 25, 2018

Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) has become a runaway success across all industry sectors. Analysts at IDC have estimated the SD-WAN gold rush will increase with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 70 percent by 2021.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2018

According to a report from Forrester, 90% of Network Managers are looking to evolve their WAN with a software-defined approach. Below are valuable on-demand webinars that answer crucial questions about growing SD-WAN technology. Each webinar provides insight into different SD-WAN topics for IT leaders to consider.

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WAN Wide Area Network Cloud Network 52

CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Weve been discussing the impact the dissolving perimeter has had on networking and IT. Rather than IT playing this kind of shell game on itself, IT should evaluate WAN architectures holistically and look at the quality of experience, availability, security, cost, agility, manageability, and extensibility of the network.

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WAN Network Networking Internet 52

CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. Security was never a strength of SD-WAN companies and legacy telcos.

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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. See also WAN Latency. Network Throughput the rate of successful message delivery.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2019

SD-WAN certainly provides companies with a lot of flexibility, and one aspect of that flexibility is how to manage the networking solution. One management model is the Do it yourself (DIY) approach, which has long been popular with enterprises that purchase and deploy the SD-WAN appliances themselves.

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Kentik

MARCH 26, 2018

Looking back at the flood of announcements and the flurry of M&A activity, it’s fair to say that 2017 was the “Year of the SD-WAN.” Or at least the year that SD-WANs were permanently etched into our collective consciousness. The benefits of SD-WANs are compelling both economically and operationally.

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WAN Internet Wide Area Network MPLS 40

CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2017

Cato SD-WAN is First to Converge Global Networking and Advanced Security Services Cato introduced today a context-aware Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) as part of its Cato Cloud secure SD-WAN service. Cato IPS is the first to be integrated with a global SD-WAN service , bringing context-aware protection to users everywhere.

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WAN Wide Area Network DNS Encryption 40

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. It was an arcane art and CCIEs were the master craftsman of the trade.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The UCaaS challenge for modern WANs For all of its benefits, UCaaS poses significant challenges for traditional enterprise network architectures. 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

MARCH 22, 2018

The patchwork of appliances and network services comprising our wide area networks (WAN) have been with us for so long its easy to overlook their impact on IT. Its this curse of complexity that became a major theme in our new report, State of WAN 2018: Too Complex to Ignore.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week, we learned the SD-WAN market is forecasted to reach $3.3 Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Here are those headlines and more: Cisco, VMware in SD-WAN market ‘two-horse race’ (SDxCentral).

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

SD-WANs bring SDN principles of service insertion to the wide area network. Layer-2 Service Insertion With flat networks, services can be inserted by bridging together two VLANs, such as with VLAN chaining. Its impossible to apply the service based on individual applications.

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Juniper

JANUARY 21, 2025

Onze producten voor campus en kantoor , datacenters , WAN-routering en beveiliging hebben keer op keer bewezen de IT-productiviteit te verhogen. Marvis Application Experience Insights voorspelt op proactieve wijze de gesprekskwaliteit voor Zoom en Microsoft Teams om mogelijke problemen te identificeren voordat een gebruiker deelneemt.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

This is one of the reasons that, according to Gartner analyst Joe Skorupa , by 2020, more than half of WAN edge infrastructure refreshes will be based on SD-WAN versus traditional routers. In fact, according to IDC , SD-WAN is entering a period of rapid adoption. And here is where SD-WAN steps in.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 4, 2025

Although the material may (seem) dense at times, it becomes clearer with practical application. Networking basics are an expansive field (however), it’s essential to continuously update your knowledge. Most companies are adopting SD-WAN technology, making it a crucial skill for network engineers.

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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. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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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. Is MPLS a required component of your WAN strategy? Obviously, many organizations dont use MPLS in their WANs at all.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a change that makes perfect sense, because network flow records provide clear and concise insight into network traffic patterns. Flow data for WAN monitoring. The trend in engineering and capacity planning applies as well to wide-area network (WAN) service assurance, where network flow data is also essential.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Seamless transition between home and office Today, networking and security infrastructure investments in MPLS, SD-WAN, and NGFW/UTM are focused on the office. Our take: Look for remote access to be delivered as a scalable, global cloud-service that is proven to serve a significant user base and the applications they require.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2016

Where SDN has traction is within the discipline of SD-WAN. SD-WAN is a narrower implementation of SDN concepts. SD-WAN uses a software-based control plane to drive on-premise edge devices to dynamically allocate Wide Area Network (WAN) traffic between MPLS and Internet links.

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