CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

SD-WAN Cost Savings Early marketing around SD-WAN technology pointed to the 90 percent cost difference between MPLS and Internet bandwidth costs. Cant Eliminate MPLS All too often, the cost savings of SD-WAN stem from the expectation of eliminating a carriers costly MPLS service. The reality is very different.

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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

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. For MPLS services, customers were most concerned about cost, uptime and latency. There is no native encryption with MPLS services; data is sent in the clear.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

More specifically, t he rise of WAN optimization began around 2004 and addressed the limitations of the limited capacity of costly MPLS and leased line connections. Bandwidth: Bandwidth limitations are addressed by minimizing the amount of data passed across the network.

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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 . Bottom line - MPLS bandwidth is expensive.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network elements, including branch locations, the mobile workforce, and physical and cloud datacenters, into a global, encrypted and optimized SD-WAN in the cloud. Enterprises connect to the Cato Cloud Network via any last mile transport (Internet, MPLS, 4G/LTE).

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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. Security between locations, though, was not an issue provided the WAN was based, as most were, on a private MPLS service. Any SD-WAN should build a virtual overlay of encrypted tunnels between locations.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

In some cases, it might be an MPLS network, which is no longer suitable (or affordable) for the modern digital business. Encrypted tunnels across these last-mile transport carry traffic to nearest PoP. Advanced TCP congestion control enables Cato edges to send and receive more data, as well as better utilize available bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

Rather than connecting every location to the Internet and then having to secure those locations, legacy WANs backhauled Internet traffic across the MPLS network to a centralized, secured Internet portal. Research shows that DIA bandwidth costs can be as much as 90 percent less than MPLS bandwidth costs.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

With SD-WAN, organizations can deliver more responsive, more predictable applications at lower cost in less time than the managed MPLS services traditionally used by the enterprise. In an SD-WAN, a specialized appliance at the sites edge connects to the network services, typically MPLS and at least two Internet services.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2018

Initially, SD-WAN was driven by the need for cost-saving since WAN infrastructure, MPLS, in particular, can be quite expensive. 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.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

But whats particularly interesting for anyone moving away from a global MPLS network or otherwise looking at WAN transformation is the impact NaaS will have on evolving the enterprise backbone. Only by converging SASE with NaaS can companies eliminate costly, legacy MPLS services. But SASE alone cant replace MPLS.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2018

You can play it safe by retaining a pricey MPLS circuit at each branch location and configuring your SD-WAN to route latency-sensitive traffic over it when Internet links are congested. 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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Kentik

JULY 6, 2017

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. Now that the traffic is routing over the Internet, encryption becomes a must have.

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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. DG: Whats the biggest risk enterprises face when migrating from MPLS to SD-WAN?

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Internet-based VPN gained popularity over the last decade in part as a lower-cost, albeit flawed, alternative to MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching). Site-to-site VPNs enable enterprises to securely connect physical locations over the public Internet by creating an encrypted connection between two on-premises appliances.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

This elastic capacity allows for the rapid deployment of additional sites and changes in bandwidth requirements. For example, if some branch locations are not connected via MPLS , separate firewalls may be required, forcing security administrators to manage separate network security policies.

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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. Many enterprises are replacing their fixed MPLS wide area networks (WANs) with virtualized software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) to reduce costs. 5G and SDN Capabilities Intersect.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It is easy for an enterprise to fall into a false sense of security because they can view all the traffic traversing MPLS links. The problem is today enterprise WANs are a mix of MPLS, Internet-based VPNs, mobile users, and cloud services. I can even see down to a single person and how much bandwidth (s)he is using.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

Does the vendor have the scale, bandwidth, and technical know-how to deliver line-rate traffic inspection? Thanks to our highly scalable cloud-native architectures, the Cato Cloud delivers line-rate performance regardless of whether traffic is encrypted or unencrypted or the number of security operations performed.

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