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Tech Bytes: Boosting WAN Speeds While Cutting Costs With VMware SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Packet Pushers

A customer in the automotive industry needed a better way to share large CAD files among global sites, and its MPLS network wasnt cutting it. A customer in the automotive industry needed a better way to share large CAD files among global sites, and its MPLS network wasnt cutting it.

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How SD-WAN Provided an Alternative to MPLS – A Case Study

CATO Networks

The IT manager at a leading automotive components manufacturer recently shared his experience transitioning his company from MPLS to Cato SD-WAN. The Catalyst to Make a Change Dell noticed a few challenges with the MPLS service: #1 Bandwidth Usage would peak at certain times and the providers QoS configuration didnt work properly.

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The Case for Replacing MPLS with Cloud-based SD-WAN: A Customer Story

CATO Networks

By implementing an MPLS alternative , an SLA-backed WAN and by eliminating the stacks of security appliances , bandwidth costs drop and operations become more efficient. Fisher & Company is a manufacturer for the automotive industry. The company has 1700 employees spread across eight locations globally, and an instance in Azure.

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SD-WAN Confessions: How One Company Migrated from MPLS to SD-WAN

CATO Networks

The company Dell works for is a leading manufacturer in the automotive industry and has nine locations and more than 2000 employees. One problem stemmed from overuse of the bandwidth at certain peak times, prompting the need for more bandwidth. We couldn’t even get fiber at some locations when we needed more bandwidth.

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3 ways Cato Cloud isn’t your father’s (or mother’s) SD-WAN

CATO Networks

The manufacturer in the automotive industry relied on a managed MPLS service for its global network. With Cato, monthly costs dropped 25% and yet we still received 10x more bandwidth, says Willem-Jan Herckenrath, Manager of ICT at Alewijnse.

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The Return On Investment of SD-WAN

CATO Networks

The bandwidth is expensive (relative to Internet capacity) and often limited or unavailable on some routes, forcing companies to either pay exorbitant fees to connect locations or, more likely, resort to Internet-based VPNs, complicating network design. Let ‘ s look at the various areas of savings SD-WAN can offer and the resulting ROI.

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