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. During the webinar, we spoke about the reasons behind the decision, the differences between carrier-managed SD-WAN services and cloud-based SD-WAN, and insights he gained from his experience.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

As the company grew, Alewijnse found MPLS connectivity to be increasingly unable meet its business requirements. 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.

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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. The core value proposition of SD-WAN is the use of a standard, low-cost Internet link to augment an expensive managed, low-latency and guaranteed capacity MPLS link.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 26, 2019

In one form or another the question: how can SD-WAN deliver the same reliability and redundancy as MPLS when it uses the public Internet? Catos cloud-native approach to SD-WAN not only matches MPLS reliability across the middle-mile, it offers better redundancy in the last-mile. My response? SD-WAN + public Internet alone cant.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Its about a year before your MPLS contract expires, and youve been told to cut costs by your CFO. That MPLS too expensive. Naturally, its your job to find a solution… There actually could be several reasons why its time to pull the plug on your MPLS, or at least, consider MPLS alternatives. Find an alternative.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

We expected other drivers, such as MPLS cost reduction, eliminating bandwidth constraints, or optimizing cloud access, to be at the top of the list. Because SD-WAN is a code name for MPLS WAN transformation project. MPLS WANs were never designed with security, and specifically, threat protection, as a core feature.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

MPLS is a reliable routing technique that ensures efficiency and high performance. However, global changes like remote work, mobile connectivity and cloud-based infrastructure require businesses to reconsider their MPLS network strategy. What is MPLS? What is MPLS? How does MPLS Work?

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

As critical business applications migrate to the cloud, and the mobile workforce continues to grow, networking and security solutions need to evolve in order to meet the changing business needs. 1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries? 1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries?

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2017

MPLS networks: pros and cons MPLS is the defacto choice for most enterprises, and for a good reason. MPLS offers guaranteed availability and optimized application performance, as well as high levels of latency and stability. A typical MPLS network install can take months to order, install, and implement.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 30, 2018

Our new eBook, Cato Networks Optimized WAN and Cloud Connectivity , analyzes those challenges and explains Catos unique approach to overcoming the performance limitations in todays cloud- and mobile-centric organizations. WAN optimization was designed to overcome the limitations of MPLS-based networks.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

MPLS is a 20 years old enterprise networking technology. The alternative to MPLS, if you could think of it this way, was to jump into the Internet Abyss with Internet-based connections (IPVPN). Guaranteed service levels come at a price with MPLS spend representing a big part of the IT networking budget.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) adoption is on the rise in the enterprise and with that comes significant impact for IT managers considering how their MPLS network transformation. This approach is ill-suited to a rapidly changing application delivery model in which apps may reside in public cloud infrastructure (e.g.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2017

The Search for Affordable MPLS Alternative Global organizations are looking for SD-WAN services to provide an affordable, MPLS alternative. If you are already using MPLS, you are well aware of its challenges: high costs, rigidity, long time to deploy and incompatibility with the growing demand for direct cloud and internet access.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Which architectural approach will best serve your needs MPLS, public internet or cloud networks? The low-cost, easily adopted public Internet is an attractive option for reducing bandwidth costs, at least when compared to MPLS. When critical, there is a strong case for MPLS. Our answer is, well, it depends.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 5, 2018

Whether a dedicated wire or MPLS, the cost of traditional WAN technology increases in direct relationship to determinism. SD-WAN solves this very problem by utilizing route and component diversity made feasible by the improvements in technology and the affordable costs of Internet bandwidth. The benefits to real-time traffic are clear.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 28, 2017

If your company is like most, its probably at least considering connecting a cloud datacenter to the WAN. Research shows that as of the end of last year, 90% of surveyed companies were using cloud services with 57% claiming hybrid cloud deployments. So whats the right approach? The pros and cons of those architectures.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 10, 2018

Cato Cloud is more than just SD-WAN. It converges threat protection, cloud security, SLA-backed networking, and optimized mobile access as well as SD-WAN into a single, global network. With so many capabilities, Cato Cloud is being used by enterprises to address a diverse range challenges beyond whats normally seen with SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 22, 2017

Its not just about cutting the cost of their existing MPLS-based WANs. Its also about looking forward and addressing the bigger challenges facing business around the cloud, mobility and more. Todays business has evolved significantly since the adoption of MPLS-based WANs. Mobile users and the cloud are ignored by MPLS.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With the growing popularity of cloud services like Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) and the surge in mobile users thanks to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the ubiquity of smartphones, low latency has become more important than ever. On the surface, MPLS seems to solve this problem. Cloud and mobile is now the norm.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

Most enterprise WANs have historically used MPLS, but with the proliferation of cloud resources and mobile users, organizations are realizing the need to facilitate more flexible connectivity. Usually, one network service is MPLS while the other is typically an Internet connection.

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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. SD-WANs reduce bandwidth costs, no doubt, but enterprises are still left having to address important issues around cloud, mobility, and security. Bandwidth upgrades and changes can also take weeks.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Paysafe decided to replace its mix of MPLS and Internet-based VPN with Cato Cloud to create a single converged network. For a fraction of the price, the Cato Cloud solution improved in performance compared to the Internet VPNs and is on par with MPLS. The solution reduced costs while increasing bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Cloud computing has been an integral part of the modern enterprise for some time. 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.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Optimization has always been about overcoming latency, jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth limitations. However, in recent years bandwidth has become much less of an issue for most enterprises. Lower dollar-per-bit costs of bandwidth and apps that incorporate data duplication and compression are big drivers of this shift.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2019

In 2014, Gartner analysts wrote a Foundational Report (G00260732, Communication Hubs Improve WAN Performance) providing guidance to customers on deploying communication hubs, or cloud-based network hubs, outside the enterprise data center. Voice and video traffic is on the rise, and it requires high bandwidth, low latency transport.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 21, 2019

SDWaaS simplifies the network by eliminating appliance sprawl with seamless cloud-scale software. WAN costs can be reduced by up to 90% because the dedicated private WAN connections, typically MPLS, are replaced with lower cost broadband connections. Physical security appliances will still need to be scaled, patched, and upgraded.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

As a result, SD-WAN adopters have remained chained to their MPLS services, paying exorbitant bandwidth fees just to deliver these core applications. Now a new kind of inexpensive, high-quality, SLA-backed backbone is emerging, one that allows companies to finally overcome their MPLS dependency.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

Born alongside the expensive MPLS data service, WAN optimization appliances allowed organizations to squeeze more bandwidth out of thin pipes through compression and deduplication, as well as prioritizing traffic of loss-sensitive applications such as remote desktops. WAN optimization has been with us for a long time.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Performance MPLS was the top dog in enterprise WAN before cloud-computing and mobile smart devices exploded in popularity. Once cloud and mobile became mainstream, a fundamental flaw in MPLS was exposed. With MPLS, enterprises have to deal with the trombone effect . ENABLES CLOUD USAGE.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 27, 2019

UCaaS offerings move unified communications capabilities integrated calling, conferencing, and messaging applications normally delivered from on-premises servers, into the cloud. Our research also shows, though,that many enterprises experience an increase in WAN costs to support connectivity to the cloud.

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Akins IT

OCTOBER 26, 2001

Market adoption is growing rapidly, and industry experts have declared a winner in the SD-WAN vs MPLS debate. For example, Network World called 2018 the year of SD-WAN , and before the end of Q3 2018 Gartner declared SD-WAN is killing MPLS. Whats driving all the excitement around SD-WAN?

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 10, 2017

So youve decided to get off your MPLS service, but To what? What are the issues to consider when re-evaluating MPLS – and its successor? Well discuss each of those and provide a concise comparison table comparing MPLS, traditional SD-WAN and cloud-based SD-WAN. is the question. Think youve mastered SD-WAN?

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 14, 2019

MPLS circuits can take weeks even months to provision depending on location. All too often, IT directors have told me they need to explain why MPLS circuit delivery is a holdup for branch office going live. Cloud-native SD-WAN provides a way to do just that. This also makes providing connectivity to small offices impractical.

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CATO Networks

MAY 4, 2020

While WAN optimization and acceleration are still important, increased bandwidth availability, cloud, and mobile have significantly shifted the paradigm. What is a WAN accelerator Simply put, a WAN accelerator is any hardware or software appliance that provides bandwidth optimization across a WAN.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The cloud and mobility are the new norm and the WAN needs the agility capabilities, security, and cost structures to adapt to these changes. Jims research showed in part (check out the webinar for full details) how customer concerns around MPLS and those around the Internet are directly inverse of one another.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2019

Enterprise Data Replication & Bandwidth Utilization Data replication is an important aspect of data storage, ensuring data security. However, data replication is subjected to higher usage of network bandwidth. However, multi-cloud architectures pose certain challenges for the enterprise network.

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