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. 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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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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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CATO Networks

APRIL 10, 2018

The basic challenge of global Internet connectivity is the inability to control IP routing. Traffic isn’t subject to the erraticness of the global Internet or the costs of MPLS. During our testing, we found latency from Cambridge to Montreal to be 45% less with Cato Cloud than with the public Internet and about the same as MPLS.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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. Here there’s a balance of considerations.

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