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Digital Transformation Is a Major Driver of Network Transformation

CATO Networks

Many organizations are in the midst of rapid digital transformation. New Solutions Have New Network Requirements As digital transformation initiatives change how companies do business, corporate networks and IT architectures need to adapt to effectively and securely support the evolving business.

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New Research Documents How Traditional Telco Services Cripple Digital Transformation

CATO Networks

T he report, Telcos and the Future of the WAN in 2019 focuses on those 432 who purchase telco services for organizations with MPLS backbones. Repeatedly we heard that SD-WAN continues to serve as the basis of their digital transformation efforts. SD-WAN alone says nothing about defending the company edge.

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5 Reasons Why You'll Want to Consider SD-WAN

Akins IT

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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Thought SD-WAN Was What You Needed to Transform your Network? Think Again.

CATO Networks

Since its premier over a decade ago, SD-WAN was adopted by enterprises as the go-to-technology for preparing their network for the digital transformation. At the time this made sense, as SD-WAN brought important advantages: Optimized bandwidth costs, by leveraging inexpensive services like Internet broadband whenever possible.

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Is SD-WAN Really Dead?

CATO Networks

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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How SD-WAN Overcomes Last Mile Constraints

CATO Networks

SD-WAN offers a way forward that significantly improves last-mile uptime without appreciably increasing costs. This improved last mile bandwidth and redundancy but didn’t create any benefits for the middle mile bandwidth. SD-WAN aggregates last-mile services, representing them as a single pipe to the application.

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SD-Wan Consideration Factors for Global Companies

CATO Networks

For global companies still operating with a legacy WAN architecture, WAN modernization is mandatory today for a variety of reasons. For example, digital transformation is based on business speed, and the lack of network agility can hold an organization back. SD-WAN is a very broad category.

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