CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The Dutch engineering company had built a global wide area network (WAN) out of MPLS and Internet services connecting 17 locations 14 in Europe and 3 in the Asia Pacific with about 800 mobile and field employees. Users increasingly complained about their Internet performance. MPLS was also limiting IT agility.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

Usually, one network service is MPLS while the other is typically an Internet connection. While some enterprises will have an active MPLS connection with an Internet/VPN connection for failover, hybrid WAN actively uses both connections. Regulatory constraints mandating MPLS can continue to be met.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Paysafe decided to replace its mix of MPLS and Internet-based VPN with Cato Cloud to create a single converged network. For a fraction of the price, the Cato Cloud solution improved in performance compared to the Internet VPNs and is on par with MPLS. The solution reduced costs while increasing bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

Cato automatically chooses the best route for your traffic dynamically, resulting in a predictable and reliable connection to resources compared with public Internet. Customers can control the use of TCP acceleration and Packet Loss Mitigation and assign a bandwidth priority level to the traffic.

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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

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. Start by addressing the core questions to know if the Internet can play a role in part or entirely as your next backbone.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

For SD-WAN s, the Internet has been their weakness. 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. Achilles had his heel and Superman has his kryptonite.

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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. For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection.

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Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

Best practices include: Baselining traffic bandwidths. Discovering what applications are running between sites, the internet, and to the data center. Visualize all transport (MPLS, internet, LTE, etc.) MPLS, internet, etc.) Getting visibility before making decisions can help measure the change and prove the results.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Introduction Organizations need to protect themselves from the risks of running their business over the internet and processing sensitive data in the cloud. They often retain a legacy data center firewall for East-West traffic protection, alongside an SSE solution for North-South traffic protection. See Figure 1 below.

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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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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

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. Here there’s a balance of considerations.

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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

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. Additionally, because we deal with sensitive issues like abuse and drug use, employees need free access to internet resources.

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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

MAY 5, 2016

The core value proposition of SD-WAN is the use of a standard, low-cost Internet link to augment an expensive managed, low-latency and guaranteed capacity MPLS link. MPLS isnt encrypted by default: MPLS relies on the carrier private network for security because the data doesnt flow on the public Internet.

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CATO Networks

MAY 14, 2018

Many organizations have a secondary Internet link as a failover option in case of an outage. SD-WAN enables IT to augment MPLS with high-capacity Internet connections from a separate provider. At the same time, the added capacity increases overall usable bandwidth at the location.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Internet infrastructure is often less developed, which can lead to problems such as packet loss over the last mile. Last-mile considerations Internet last-mile connections in developing countries are often less reliable than in North America or Europe. The situation is improving with countries upgrading their infrastructure.

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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

JUNE 23, 2019

Mirai DDOS attacks also crippled Rutgers Universitys network and Internet access across the African country of Liberia. Access to copious enterprise bandwidth may enable Mirai to launch even more devastating attacks than before. Protecting your network from infection isnt rocket science.

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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

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. Security Settings Since Cato is a complete SASE solution, it includes such features as firewall-as-a-service, intrusion protection, anti-malware, and application control to name a few.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

Reliability: These dedicated links provide much higher reliability than network routing over the public Internet. Some of its limitations includes: Cost: MPLS connections are expensive and have hard caps on available bandwidth. This allows the use of public internet for transport, which reduces networking costs.

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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

JULY 29, 2018

The network perimeter has dissolved with IaaS, SaaS, and mobile users breaking that barrier and shifting more traffic to the Internet. 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).

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 21, 2017

Manufacturers create new facilities in Asia and Latin America and, more specifically, in China, behind the Great Firewall of China. There are three major options global MPLS , the public Internet and cloud networks. The Public Internet The Internet is the default backbone.

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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

MARCH 21, 2019

These routine work activities place special demands on the network pertaining to bandwidth, response times and data security. He explains the importance of considering Internet transport for global connections, managing CPE, and securing branch offices. Frankfurt to Shanghai 1.99 San Jose to Shanghai 3.97 Frankfurt to Shanghai 1.99

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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

APRIL 2, 2019

Communication hubs also host regionalized security stacks so that traffic going to/coming from the Internet and external clouds can be inspected thoroughly for threats. Voice and video traffic is on the rise, and it requires high bandwidth, low latency transport. Security is an integral component of Catos global network.

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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

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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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Ive been able to configure rules such that our Office 365 traffic from our Tel Aviv office, for example, enters through our Tel Aviv PoP, travels across the Cato Cloud network and, then egresses in Amsterdam right next to the Internet destination. If you know the basics of firewall operation thats enough. A huge time saver.

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