CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

We recently held a webinar focused on educating network professionals about Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). The backhauling approach means routing the traffic through the datacenter where there is a big firewall to secure it before exiting to the internet.

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Obkio

APRIL 4, 2023

Learn about Network Device Monitoring to easily monitor performance of firewalls, routers & switches to identify problems like high CPU & bandwidth usage.

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

Yes, there’s something to say about how applications are written, but on the public internet side, we’ve seen a decrease in latency, cost, and a massive increase in available bandwidth. We still need to connect our infrastructure to the public internet, so the enterprise WAN is still about routers, circuit IDs, and perimeter firewalls.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Internet access was centralized in the datacenter for its Dutch sites; the Romanian office had its own firewall and Internet breakout. Cloud applications were starved for bandwidth as they were backhauled across a 10 Mbits/s connection to the datacenter. Users increasingly complained about their Internet performance.

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

By collecting and analyzing network telemetry, including traffic flows, bandwidth usage, packet loss rates, and error rates, NetOps leverage monitoring to detect and diagnose potential bottlenecks, security threats, and other issues that can impact network reliability, often before end users even notice a problem.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Pet Lovers With over 100 stores and franchises connected with Internet-based VPNs, Pet Lovers had security concerns as only the datacenter and four stores had firewall protection in place. Adding firewalls and other security appliances at each store was too expensive, slow to deploy, and would be difficult to manage.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

By default, the Cato Management Application has several pre-defined network rules and bandwidth priority levels to meet the most common use cases, but customers can quickly customize these policies or create their own rules based on the context types mentioned above.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 7, 2025

AI-powered SASE continuously monitors network behavior and dynamically adjusts policies to reduce latency, improve bandwidth utilization, and ensure optimal performance for mission-critical applications. But in 2025, well see AI play an even more substantial role as enterprises scale and network performance optimization becomes more complex.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

Hybrid WAN Pros and Cons Pros of Hybrid WAN Hybrid WAN configurations allow for easy increase in bandwidth by inserting Internet connections alongside an existing MPLS network. Offloading traffic from MPLS allows for reductions in monthly bandwidth costs and to turn up new installations faster by leveraging indigenous Internet access link.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 27, 2019

Two factors in particular: The need to increase bandwidth between the organization and the Internet to support connectivity to the UCaaS provider The need to add bandwidth between locations to support new features commonly available from UCaaS providers, like video conferencing.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

By implementing an MPLS alternative , an SLA-backed WAN and by eliminating the stacks of security appliances , bandwidth costs drop and operations become more efficient. With stacks of appliances, including firewalls, WAN optimizers, and routers, comes complexity and breeding ground for problems.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They often retain a legacy data center firewall for East-West traffic protection, alongside an SSE solution for North-South traffic protection. Figure 1 – WAN Firewall Policy Using the centralized Cato Management Application (CMA), it is simple to create a policy based on a zero-trust approach. See Figure 1 below.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Gone are the days when it was simple and effective to connect remote sites with a perimeter firewall, or backhaul traffic to a datacenter to keep companies secure and functional. Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) is the future of network security. It could change your entire approach to network security, and help save your sanity.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

When Dell started with the company, there was an MPLS network where the provider placed three cloud firewalls at different datacenters. We were promised, if one firewall goes down, the system will failover to the other, and each location will have LTE wireless backup, says Dell. Issues arose about a year into the MPLS contract.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

No surprise, I suppose, as MPLS costs can be more than 5x the cost of Internet bandwidth. With such high disparity in bandwidth costs, backhauling Internet traffic makes little sense. Instead of WAN security they built a closed environment, protecting the WAN from the Internet with a perimeter firewall.

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Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

Best practices include: Baselining traffic bandwidths. It can be scary not knowing where you are starting. Getting visibility before making decisions can help measure the change and prove the results. Evaluating security traffic patterns. Discovering what applications are running between sites, the internet, and to the data center.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

Firewall as a Service (FwaaS) a firewall delivered as a cloud-based service. Unlike appliance-based firewalls that require management of discrete firewall appliances, FwaaS is a single logical firewall in the cloud that can be accessed from anywhere. Click here for a detailed overview of FwaaS.

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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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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

spine-leaf topologies provide excessive-bandwidth, low-latency, non-blocking server-to-server connectivity. Security devices integration Cisco ACI allows you to establish a firewall or an intrusion prevention system (IPS) between EPGs as a Layer 47 service. Adding spine switches increases fabric bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

As a result, SD-WAN adopters have remained chained to their MPLS services, paying exorbitant bandwidth fees just to deliver these core applications. Bandwidth was still provisioned in the old T1/T3/OC-3 increments. Careful traffic engineering was necessary due to limited available bandwidth. But that doesnt have to be the case.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2024

Some of these configuration options include: DHCP DNS Bandwidth Management (QoS) Link health Configuring these settings in the CMA will push the configuration globally to all of the Cato PoPs to ensure that all your locations and users have the same global performance and experience.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 18, 2019

The carrier provided a comprehensive solution to address the critical uptime requirements by having three cloud firewalls at each datacenter, and an LTE wireless backup at each location. Nick wanted to add bandwidth, but for some sites, the MPLS provider offered only limited or no fiber connections.

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Kentik

MAY 29, 2018

Modern networks are made up of a collection of routers, switches, firewalls, and other network elements. Bandwidth utilization at various points in the network. Measure and analyze traffic metrics to establish performance and capacity baselines for future bandwidth consumption. Capacity of current network infrastructure.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2017

Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth has experienced the surreal. While at home you might spend $50 for a 50 Mbps Internet link, MPLS services can cost 10 times more for a fraction of the bandwidth. So much depends on how you answer certain questions about your business, the resources available, and your networking requirements.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The bandwidth is expensive (relative to Internet capacity) and often limited or unavailable on some routes, forcing companies to either pay exorbitant fees to connect locations or, more likely, resort to Internet-based VPNs, complicating network design. Let ‘ s look at the various areas of savings SD-WAN can offer and the resulting ROI.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Converged functionalities include SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS), cloud-access security broker (CASB), DLP and secure web gateway (SWG). Speed and performance: SASE enables manufacturers to increase bandwidth. Some manufacturers have been able to achieve 3x their previous WAN bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

For your business to stay ahead of the pack, you should be looking to improve network and security infrastructure to have the flexibility and strength to handle not just todays bandwidth demands, but tomorrows demands as well. However, accessing websites and cloud applications directly from a remote office requires separate firewall services.

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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

JUNE 23, 2019

Access to copious enterprise bandwidth may enable Mirai to launch even more devastating attacks than before. Inventory all networked IoT devices frequently; change all default login usernames and passwords; and keep IoT devices, firewalls, VPNs, and anti-malware software up to date with current security patches.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

SD-WANs reduce bandwidth costs, no doubt, but enterprises are still left having to address important issues around cloud, mobility, and security. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services. Bandwidth upgrades and changes can also take weeks.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of its limitations includes: Cost: MPLS connections are expensive and have hard caps on available bandwidth. If an organizations bandwidth needs exceed the current hardware capacity, new or additional hardware is required, and this can be a slow and expensive process.

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2018

The appliance form factor including the cost of hardware, software, and expert staff to maintain it is a burden which SD-WAN eliminates with Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). Point-of-sale (POS) traffic went across the IPsec VPN to firewalls in the companys Singapore datacenter housing its POS servers. The provider offered only a 1.5

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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. Bandwidth costs, even with redundant fiber pairs, will reduce somewhat when replacing MPLS in well-developed Internet regions. The reality is very different.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

We expected other drivers, such as MPLS cost reduction, eliminating bandwidth constraints, or optimizing cloud access, to be at the top of the list. They can manage failover scenarios caused by blackout and brownouts, and they can hand off the traffic to a security solution like a branch firewall or UTM.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overall, the company saved 95 percent on its annual costs, doubled its bandwidth and eliminated the complexities of MLPS all without sacrificing line quality. Current services include a next generation firewall , Secure Web Gateway , Advanced Threat Prevention , Cloud and Mobile Access Protection and network Forensics.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Global connectivity considerations When delivering applications across long distances, latency and packet loss not bandwidth will determine application performance. For instance, a known challenge to having a WAN presence in China is the Great Firewall of China. This established fact becomes critical for Asia Pacific connections.

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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. Advanced threat protection addresses these risks with various technologies, such as next generation firewall (NGFW) , Secure Web Gateway (SWG) , malware protection , and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).

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