CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Marketers have their brochures; engineers have their test reports, but nothing is more compelling when selecting an SD-WAN than real-life experience. Paysafe decided to replace its mix of MPLS and Internet-based VPN with Cato Cloud to create a single converged network. The solution reduced costs while increasing bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

A recent conversation with a WAN engineer got me thinking about how network optimization techniques have changed over the years. 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.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

SASEs Value in Manufacturing | Go to Webinar How Manufacturers Benefit from SASE Manufacturers can replace their legacy networking solutions, like MPLS, with SASE, to benefit from the capabilities SASE provides. SASE can connect any network: the internet, MPLS, cellular networks and more.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 18, 2023

If you are used to managed MPLS services, transitioning to Internet last-mile access as part of SD-WAN or SASE might cause some concern. In this blog post we explain how SD-WAN and SASE ensure higher reliability and network availability than legacy MPLS and why SLAs are actually overrated.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 21, 2017

Engineering firms need to extend corporate applications to their field personnel in temporary project sites. There are three major options global MPLS , the public Internet and cloud networks. Enterprises that could not afford global MPLS had to use Internet-based services.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 10, 2018

Reduce latency between global locations While most webinar respondents (53 percent) identify MPLS costs as a major challenge, eliminating MPLS completely often remains impossible for SD-WAN solutions, particularly in the case of global networks. Traffic isn’t subject to the erraticness of the global Internet or the costs of MPLS.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

We frequently talk to organizations who are enthusiastically searching for alternatives to their old and tired MPLS and IPsec networks. Theyre ready to realize the benefits of a new SASE infrastructure but remain constrained by their old beliefs about network engineering. There are no bits to set or devices to configure.

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CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2023

They also view the DIY approach as more cost-effective and as an opportunity to leverage the strengths of their internal engineering team. NEW EMA Report: Establishing a Mature Foundation for SASE Success | Download the Report SD-WAN Replaces MPLS The internet has become a primary means of WAN connectivity for 63% of organizations.

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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. With a private backbone, optimized routing and engineering for zero packet loss makes latency far lower and more predictable than across the global Internet. Why a Global SASE Service?

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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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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

SNMP data is also used by network engineers to troubleshoot reported problems along with network architects to do things like capacity planning. The flow analytics are used to make decisions on how traffic is being sent or received to other internet-connected peers via traffic engineering and optimization.

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

SNMP data is also used by network engineers to troubleshoot reported problems along with network architects to do things like capacity planning. The flow analytics are used to make decisions on how traffic is being sent or received to other internet-connected peers via traffic engineering and optimization.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2018

At the same time, MPLS circuits can be quite costly and take many months to install. Still, a reliable Internet link may be unavailable, requiring the purchase of MPLS last mile. The middle mile i.e., the global backbone of the private cloud network is typically engineered to have zero packet loss.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2018

The MPLS architectures of most enterprise WANs adds far too much latency to Internet- and cloud-destined traffic. Other problems, including extensive deployment times (as much as 90 days) and high bandwidth costs (think double or more their Internet equivalents), make MPLS incompatible with evolving enterprise requirements.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2017

Examples include: Mission critical locations, such as datacenters or regional hubs, can be connected by active-active, dual homed fiber connections managed and monitor 24×7 by an external provider — and with a price tag that approaches MPLS. It was an arcane art and CCIEs were the master craftsman of the trade.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

For example, videoconferences between engineers and product managers on separate contents can be brought to a standstill because of packet loss or latency. However, as cloud and mobile grew in popularity, the inflexibility and cost of MPLS began to drive enterprises away. The solution?

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2017

At the time, EMA’s research found that network flow data was only the fourth most popular source of data used for network engineering and capacity planning. Network flow records emerged as the most popular source of data for engineering and capacity planning, used for these purposes by 41% of the surveyed network infrastructure teams.

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CATO Networks

JULY 18, 2018

Today, Cato introduced the first, identity-aware routing engine for SD-WAN. Using the robust DPI engine underlying Cato Cloud, were able to detect and classify hundreds of SaaS and datacenter applications regardless of port, protocol, or evasive technique and without SSL inspection.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

Low Overhead : Static routes do not consume bandwidth for routing updates or require additional CPU resources to compute paths. Specific Traffic Management : Static routes allow administrators to direct specific types of traffic along predetermined paths, optimizing bandwidth usage and improving overall network performance.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2016

Service providers also know this — and make billions on MPLS. The MPLS Racket To address these problems, service providers came up with an alternative offering: private networks, built on their own backbones, using MPLS as the routing protocol. MPLS is in many ways the opposite of BGP.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

SD-WANs Arent Enough Leveraging Direct Internet Access (DIA) allows SD-WANs to improve agility and reduce bandwidth costs, but fails to address, and sometimes exacerbates, other critical challenges. DIA also means IT can reduce their monthly bandwidth spend by as much as 90 percent.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 27, 2018

Recent trends in enterprise networking have created a challenge for network security engineers. Options like MPLS/VPN create poor end-user experience since the traffic routed over the public internet can suffer from high latency and packet drop. Using an MPLS network and routing the traffic comes with high costs.

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Network Engineering

MARCH 17, 2019

We have configured a reference bandwidth of 1000G on all routers.This by definition means an ae interface (with 2 x 10G member Links) would yield a cost of 50G (1000G/20G = 50). 30; } family mpls; } R2> show configuration protocols isis interface ae16.3 30; } family mpls; } R2> show configuration protocols isis interface ae16.3

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 23, 2019

To help inform enterprises how best to make the transition to SD-WAN, Ive been speaking with independent engineers and network architects around the industry for their insights and suggestions. DG: Whats the biggest risk enterprises face when migrating from MPLS to SD-WAN? DG: Is WAN transformation only about replacing MPLS for you?

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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

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

MARCH 21, 2019

These routine work activities place special demands on the network pertaining to bandwidth, response times and data security. WAN transport considerations Many SD-WAN solutions are big proponents of augmenting or replacing MPLS circuits with broadband connectivity, says Kerravala. For example, product developers in the U.S.

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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? Designated applications or data flows that contain sensitive information can also remain encrypted if required in a way that bypasses Cato inspection engines. How are the SD-WAN devices configured and deployed?

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