CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That means making sure the wide area network (WAN) that connects branch offices, data centers, cloud services and SaaS applications can handle the connectivity needs of digitally empowered global organizations. Software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) can get the job done.

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Juniper

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Our campus and branch , data center , WAN routing , and security products have all proven time and again their ability to boost IT productivity and assure exceptional user and operator experiences for leading hospitals, hotels, schools, stores, campuses, factories and service providers.

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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. Like so many technologies, though, there are the promises of SD-WANs and then there are the realities of SD-WANs. Bandwidth upgrades and changes can also take weeks.

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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. Also, companies need the ability to prioritize certain types of traffic across the WAN.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Luckily, SD-WAN can be configured to prioritize business-critical traffic and real-time services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and then effectively steer it over the most efficient route. Performance MPLS was the top dog in enterprise WAN before cloud-computing and mobile smart devices exploded in popularity.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 17, 2018

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is making organizations rethink their WAN infrastructure. Instead of connecting a location with one highly-available MPLS connection, SD-WAN can connect a location with multiple, less-reliable broadband Internet connections, selecting the optimum connection per application.

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Akins IT

OCTOBER 26, 2001

In 2019, it became clear that SD-WAN had secured its position as the way forward for enterprise WAN connectivity. Market adoption is growing rapidly, and industry experts have declared a winner in the SD-WAN vs MPLS debate. SO WHAT IS SD-WAN?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2018

To establish their facilities, companies need reliable and high-performance network connectivity to global data centers both in-region and out-of-region. The two top WAN issues for many global enterprises are the quality of last-mile infrastructure to remote locations and the high latency of global connectivity.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The market for SD-WAN has been driven in part by its ability to reduce bandwidth costs and improve the performance of cloud access. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. This amicable live-and-let-live separation falls apart with todays SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

Happy To Announce the Birth of a New Technology – SD-WAN It wasnt that long ago that we oohed and ahhed over the brand-new technology called SD-WAN. But just as were getting used to the toddling SD-WAN, along came yet another even more exciting newborn, the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Thats so yesteryear or is it?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It had risen as a response to the business need for a reliable and predictable network performance across the wide area network (WAN). For example, remote office employees needed access to latency sensitive enterprise applications like ERP, CRM and Virtual Desktops that were hosted in the companys data center.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Companies needing to connect their users to the services in the cloud, who have been using a wide-area network (WAN) with MPLS for security, are seeing the benefits of using a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) for connectivity. Bandwidth-intensive traffic, bound for the Internet and cloud, are backhauled across the MPLS WAN.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud. ” Many businesses today are expanding globally, relying on data and applications in the cloud, and are driven by an increasingly mobile workforce.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Changes in our applications (cloud migration) and where users work (mobility) are driving the shift to software defined wide area networks ( SD-WANs ), but theyre also forcing us to rethink how we securely connect our users, application and data and deliver a compelling quality of experience.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 21, 2019

For global companies still operating with a legacy WAN architecture, WAN modernization is mandatory today for a variety of reasons. SD-WAN is a very broad category. If a company chooses the wrong SD-WAN, it can be detrimental to the business. Global companies have unique networking needs.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

For distributed enterprises, a network technology solution must support connections to all of the locations, data centers, and cloud partners anywhere in the world. In fact, according to IDC , SD-WAN is entering a period of rapid adoption. And here is where SD-WAN steps in.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

You may be familiar with the concept of localized versus centralized policies that exist within legacy SD-WAN architectures, but Catos cloud-native SASE architecture simplifies configuration and policy delivery across all capabilities from a true single management application.

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CATO Networks

MAY 26, 2022

The modern enterprise network is internet-bound, which makes it bandwidth-intensive. Redundant circuits, resilient routing and WAN optimization drive the bill even higher. To support remote work and a distributed workforce, resources, users, data and applications need to be secured wherever they are.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While BCP is a company-wide effort, IT plays an especially important role in maintaining business operations, with the task of ensuring redundancy measures and backup for data centers in case of an outage. Can you provide access to data and applications according to corporate security policies during an outage?

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

However, arriving at specs for other aspects of network performance requires extensive monitoring, dashboarding, and data engineering to unify this data and help make it meaningful. Top talkers are often the cause of outages for application stacks.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Get crystal clear on your WAN challenges: Do any of these challenges sound familiar? Youve been told to cut costs Its no secret that MPLS circuits cost a fortune often 3-4x the price of MPLS alternatives (like SD-WAN,) for only a fraction of the bandwidth. But the bottom line isnt the only factor to take into consideration.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Enterprises often embark on a SASE journey to address a specific, tactical needlike replacing SD-WAN or enhancing remote access securitybut what begins as a targeted project often leads to profound, far-reaching change across the entire IT landscape. By converging SD-WAN with network security , SASE empowers enterprises to be agile.

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Kentik

MAY 29, 2018

Bandwidth utilization at various points in the network. By performing this type of network profiling, operators are able to understand the maximum capability of current resources and the impact of adding incremental new resources needed to serve future bandwidth demand and requirements. Capacity of current network infrastructure.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Organizations can face challenges moving all their security to the Cloud, particularly when dealing with internal traffic segmentation (East-West traffic protection), legacy data center applications that cant be moved to the cloud, and regulatory issues (especially in Finance and Government sectors). See Figure 1 below.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

Hybrid Wide-Area Network (Hybrid WAN) a type of wide area network that sends traffic over two or more connection types. Internet Backhaul moving large amounts of data between major data aggregation points. See also WAN Latency. It is affected by latency, packet loss and WAN optimization.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

Its no secret that many enterprises are reevaluating their WAN. In other cases, it might be a global SD-WAN deployment, which relied too much on the unpredictable Internet. Only a fraction of the many hyperscaler PoPs can run the necessary security inspections and only a smaller fraction can act as SD-WAN on-ramps.

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CATO Networks

MAY 9, 2024

This includes stores, branches, data centers, headquarters, and more. SASE as a Gradual Deployment: The Various Paths to SASE | Get it Now SASE answer retails challenges by providing: Reliable Global Connectivity Rather than using MPLS or other networking solutions, SASE provides built-in SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2023

These PoPs should be hosted in top-tier data centers and not rely on the footprint of a public cloud provider. While peering is also a key factor in achieving strong performance, a true global private backbone is critical to any SASE or SSE product and should provide value to both Internet-bound and WAN traffic.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

However, in order to operate a reliable stretch cluster, datacenters must be relatively close to each other and have a very stable, low latency, and high-bandwidth connection among the DCs. Now operators can choose to replicate data on a per-region basis, synchronously or asynchronously, per topic. Want to learn more?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

Top Five Ways to Improve Network Performance Reduce latency, add capacity, and/or compensate for jitter and loss are obvious high-level answers to most WAN optimization challenges, but doing so effectively is where the real challenge lies. As a result, businesses turned to SD-WAN and Internet-based VPN solutions as an alternative.

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Kentik

APRIL 24, 2023

We believe a data-driven approach to network operations is the key to maintaining the mechanism that delivers applications from data centers, public clouds, and containerized architectures to actual human beings. Ultimately, we’re solving a network operations problem using a data-driven approach. More data!

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

The users traffic is sent to Catos SD-WAN edge device, the Cato Socket, sitting on the local network. Robust application-prioritization capabilities allow enterprises to align last-mile usage with business needs by prioritizing and allocating bandwidth by application.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Firewall security solutions deployed within an organizations on-prem data center have limited scalability. With limited resources, TLS decryption and in-depth inspection of network traffic can cause performance issues, especially as corporate networks and their traffic bandwidth increase.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

Rising MPLS Bandwidth Costs MPLS is expensive and eats up a large portion of IT spend. As applications generate more traffic, video and data, costs are expected to go up even more. Upgrades and Replacements for Hardware Appliances – More users and traffic mean more required network bandwidth.

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Kentik

MAY 28, 2018

Understand the impact of network bandwidth utilization from a user’s perspective, including application performance KPIs and SLAs. Key metrics include: Bandwidth -- the maximum rate that information can be transferred, typically measured in bits/second. Identify the performance profile of individual devices on network infrastructure.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 23, 2022

Many organizations neglect to consider bandwidth and capacity requirements of cloud applications. Our cloud acceleration and optimization address the performance challenges faced when migrating enterprise apps to a cloud data center. These applications should deliver similar or better performance as legacy on-premise.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 21, 2017

One of the key drivers for the emerging SD-WAN solutions is to offload expensive MPLS bandwidth to the public internet for cost savings. This level of service required expensive underlying technology, sold at a high premium to enterprises that could afford it. Cloud Networks Cloud networks revolutionize global connectivity.

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