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Diving Deep into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity

Kentik

Today, the United States’ financial and military command systems rely on global submarine cables. Fiber optics The submarine cables that move internet traffic around the world are made from silica glass fiber optic strands that most network engineers are likely familiar with. 654 subset of fiber is used for undersea applications.

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This is Why the Internet is Broken: a Technical Perspective

CATO Networks

Anyone with hands-on experience setting up long-haul VPNs over the Internet knows its not a pleasant exercise. It lies at the core of how the Internet was built, its protocols, and how service providers implemented their routing layer. From the early days of the Internet, routers were shaped by technical constraints.

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How to Build the Perfect Network Without SLAs

CATO Networks

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. Even if the SLA penalties are gathered, they never completely compensate the enterprise for the financial and business damage resulting from downtime. Exclusions limit the scope of any SLAs penalty.

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How to Choose the Most Suitable Network Technology for Your Company

CATO Networks

Depending on the answer, the bandwidth, speed, latency and performance requirements will differ. Regulations and compliance: Many enterprises, for example, in healthcare and financial sectors, must comply with specific industry regulations. In recent years, we see cloud migration on a large scale. And here is where SD-WAN steps in.

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Cato Revolutionizes SD-WAN with Identity-Aware Routing

CATO Networks

With identity-aware routing, business-critical voice calls, such as from executive or sales, can be prioritized over other calls; file transfers, normally given low priority, can be prioritized when involving business-critical processes, such as financial transactions in a financial institution.

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An Inside Look at Life Before and After Deploying SASE

CATO Networks

The financial value – How SASE will reduce the annual costs of networking and security, coupled with the value to the business. The technological value – How SASEs converged architecture and single software stack will eliminate IT and IS overhead and hassle, ensure optimized connectivity and provide an optimal security posture.

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Why and How to Track Connectivity Costs

Kentik

An eyeball network is an ISP with residential subscribers at the content consuming edge of the internet. Network observability allows you to overlay configurable financial models over traffic accounting data without any additional effort needed beyond configuring these models in a very intuitive interface.

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