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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. Initially the locations had been connected with MPLS and secured with local appliances.

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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. Manufacturing plants needed non-stop network connectivity to ensure delivery to Ford, Toyota, GM, FCA, Tesla, and Volkswagen. Whats transitioning like to SD-WAN? Ask Nick Dell.

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

CATO Networks

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. Issues arose about a year into the MPLS contract.

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

CATO Networks

It converges threat protection, cloud security, SLA-backed networking, and optimized mobile access as well as SD-WAN into a single, global network. As a result, organizations are often forced to maintain some MPLS investment even once deploying SD-WAN. Cato Cloud is a global cloud network with ~40 PoPs across the globe.

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The Return On Investment of SD-WAN

CATO Networks

Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. But the actual SD-WAN ROI is a mix of hard and soft savi n gs from increasing overall network capacity and availability to a reduc ed operational load of managing and securing the network.

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Why Large Enterprises Moved to Cato in 2020

CATO Networks

Multiple, 1000+ site deployments and several Fortune 500 and Global 200 enterprises abandoned telco- and MSP-managed networks for Catos cloud-native service. But regardless of why they came to Cato, the overwhelming majority of Cato customers end up using Cato for networking and security. And why not? Partners had a similar reaction.

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