CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The problem is that as companies adopt cloud-based services, deploy more bandwidth-intensive applications, and connect an increasing number of devices and remote locations, business requirements change and new technical challenges arise. MPLS connections are secure, as they are private networks that never touch the public Internet.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

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. With Internet services, security is of greatest concern. No surprise, I suppose, as MPLS costs can be more than 5x the cost of Internet bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Much has been made about their high costs, long-time to deploy, and poor fit for running Internet and cloud traffic. SD-WAN Cost Savings Early marketing around SD-WAN technology pointed to the 90 percent cost difference between MPLS and Internet bandwidth costs. All of which increases last-mile costs.

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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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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. In order for companies to realize SD-WANs cost savings and cloud performance benefits, branch offices must be connected directly to and communicate across the Internet.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Cato Cloud a 2017 Internet Telephony SD-WAN Excellence Award. Congratulations to Cato Networks for receiving a 2017 INTERNET TELEPHONY SD-WAN Excellence Award, said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Build around secure hardware: If COGS permits, build security features such as secure and encrypted storage, or boot functionality based on Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Heres a run down and summary of those IoT security best practices for easy reference from some of the top sites and how cloud-based SD-WAN, such as Cato Cloud , can help.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

The Pros of WAN Optimization WAN optimization addresses MPLS limitations by tackling the three primary networking issues impacting the user experience when accessing data from across the WAN: bandwidth, latency, and packet loss. Bandwidth: Bandwidth limitations are addressed by minimizing the amount of data passed across the network.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

As mobile users connect directly to the internet through unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and offices access cloud resources via direct internet access, the attack surface grows. When the portals sit near or within the path to the Internet destinations, the performance impact of such an architecture is usually nominal.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2024

When the Cato Sockets arrive at your locations, you will be ready to connect them to the Internet and the Cato Cloud. Catos firewall-as-a-service offers both an Internet and WAN firewall for external and internal traffic and operates in the Cato PoPs, removing most of the requirements for on-premise firewalls.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

In other cases, it might be a global SD-WAN deployment, which relied too much on the unpredictable Internet. Once inspected, moving traffic to a private datacenter or other sites across the global Internet is asking for trouble. The Internet might be fine as an access layer, but its just too unpredictable as a backbone.

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Rule 11

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Do you want to analyse decrypted TLS traffic in Wireshark or let an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), like Suricata, Snort or Zeek, inspect the application layer data of potentially malicious TLS encrypted traffic? The Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) together ensure the stability of the Internet Numbers Registry System.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

spine-leaf topologies provide excessive-bandwidth, low-latency, non-blocking server-to-server connectivity. The security device encrypts east-west traffic across application tiers within EPGs, as well as north-south traffic between users and apps. Adding spine switches increases fabric bandwidth.

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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. Essentially, an MPLS-based WAN must inefficiently backhaul Internet-bound traffic to a corporate datacenter. IMPROVES PERFORMANCE.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

Work is done in more places and the Internet has become central to how business is conducted. IT becomes far more agile, deploying sites in minutes; leveraging any available data service such as MPLS , dedicated Internet access (DIA), broadband or wireless; and being able to reconfigure sites instantly.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2018

Hungry for Bandwidth In addition to cost savings, one of the initial problems with WAN infrastructure that IT leaders were looking to solve was last mile bandwidth and availability. A workaround enterprises have used to improve site availability, is pairing an MPLS connection with backup Internet connections.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Incorporating the Internet into the enterprise network reduces costs and lets companies connect resources anywhere, but security is paramount. 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

MAY 6, 2018

Bandwidth-intensive traffic, bound for the Internet and cloud, are backhauled across the MPLS WAN. However, using MPLS bandwidth to backhaul Internet data to a secure location is expensive and affects performance. Other solutions like building regional hubs are still costly and complex.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

AdRolls Global Director of IT Adrian Dunne faced several challenges when attempting to scale the companys Internet-based VPNs. Internet-based VPN gained popularity over the last decade in part as a lower-cost, albeit flawed, alternative to MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching).

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

For all of its talk, SASE as understood by much of the industry, will not completely replace a global MPLS network; the Internet is simply too unpredictable for that. billed on an opex model consumption-based, via a metered metric (such as ports, bandwidth or users), (not based on network devices/appliances).

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 29, 2018

Where SD-WAN Falls Short And yet for all of the good cheer promised by SD-WAN, anyone whos tried to deliver a global network using the Internet must confront the problem of unpredictable SD-WAN performance. We believe theres a better option: one that retains Internet economics while bumping up network characteristics to be on par with MPLS.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They may use unsecured public Internet connections that are vulnerable to eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. Encrypt Data, Not Just the Tunnel Most remote access solutions create an encrypted point-to-point tunnel to carry the communications payload. The data payload itself must also be encrypted for strong security.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

This allows a comprehensive security policy to be enforced on WAN and Internet traffic, for fixed location and mobile users. This elastic capacity allows for the rapid deployment of additional sites and changes in bandwidth requirements. With FWaaS and SD-WAN, one logical network allows for full visibility and control.

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Kentik

JULY 6, 2017

Protecting Availability for Internet-based WAN Sites. Carrier MPLS services are really expensive bandwidth. But the reality is that within most providers both MPLS VPN services and public Internet services ride on the same shared network infrastructure. SD-WAN is one of 2017’s hottest networking technologies.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a suite of security services toprotect all traffic at all times. Does the vendor have the scale, bandwidth, and technical know-how to deliver line-rate traffic inspection? Cato encrypts and protects all data in transit and at rest within the Cato network.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Performance is a key driver behind the movement, with 5G enabling: Greater throughput -- mobile broadband with bandwidth ranging from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps. Standards organizations, including the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), are also stepping in to codify 5G specifications.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

However, access via VPN can be notoriously slow, especially as traffic is backhauled back across the Internet to the VPN server. A VPN establishes a secure, encrypted connection so that a remote users traffic can travel over a public, unsecured, unencrypted network privately and safely.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The problem is today enterprise WANs are a mix of MPLS, Internet-based VPNs, mobile users, and cloud services. Further, because they can obscure the data from network sensors, Network Address Translation (NAT) and encryption reduce the usefulness of the sensors and can stifle packet inspection efforts. Cato is powerful beyond belief.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 23, 2019

That, I suppose, is not a good sign for some of the telcos trying to add value within their particular environments, but its certainly of benefit to the enterprise customers who are just looking to pick up some bandwidth here and there. For example, with local Internet breakout?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

VPNs Put Remote Access Security at High Risk In general, VPNs provide minimal security with traffic encryption and simple user authentication. This is a network architecture configuration where traffic is directed from a VPN client to the corporate network and also through a gateway to link with the Internet.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This is especially true if TLS decryption is required for inspection of encrypted traffic as this can exhaust an appliances compute capacity. 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

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Moreover, traditional VPNs can introduce latency and bandwidth constraints, impacting application performance and user experience: Complexity : VPNs can be complex to manage, especially for large organizations with multiple locations and diverse user populations.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

the internet) since by default these services only allow ingress and egress connectivity from the VPC that holds the cluster. One might be able to SSH into the compute instance that runs the broker, or even change the encryption keys that persistent volumes (used by the brokers for persistence) require to implement security at rest.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level across a variety of metrics. Key Findings Traffic Global Internet traffic grew 17.2% Google maintained its position as the most popular Internet service overall.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 17, 2021

VPNs are Giving Way to Zero Trust Security While VPNs provide traffic encryption and user authentication, they still present a security risk because they grant access to the entire network without the option of controlling granular user access to specific resources.

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