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

Packet Pushers

On todays Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by VMware, we explore a real-world SD-WAN deployment. 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. The company also wanted to lower WAN costs while improving performance of business apps.

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

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The Return On Investment of SD-WAN

CATO Networks

What is the ROI on SD-WAN projects? 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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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. And three WAN optimizers meant a one-time outlay of nearly $60,000 with annual renewals of $7,000.

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

CATO Networks

IT teams are excited about the opportunities afforded by SD-WAN. If youve read this blog for any amount of time (or followed SD-WANs development in other blogs for that matter) youll know what Im talking about. But whats interesting about Cato SD-WAN is that even the SD-WAN hype doesnt do it injustice. Rapid deployment.

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

CATO Networks

Whats transitioning like to SD-WAN? The IT manager at a leading automotive components manufacturer recently shared his experience transitioning his company from MPLS to Cato SD-WAN. Before moving to SD-WAN, the company used an MPLS provider that managed everything. Ask Nick Dell.

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2019: A Year of Innovation and Validation for the Cato Vision

CATO Networks

Customers chose the Cato SASE solution, integrating SD-WAN, security, mobility and a converged backbone for maximum performance, protection and agility. The real validation of the Cato vision: With the choice of adopting Cato SD-WAN alone or Catos full SASE solution, most chose SASE. Our customers certainly get it.

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