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TMC, Layer123 Recognize Cato for SD-WAN Leadership

CATO Networks

TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Cato Cloud a 2017 Internet Telephony SD-WAN Excellence Award. Overall, the company saved 95 percent on its annual costs, doubled its bandwidth and eliminated the complexities of MLPS all without sacrificing line quality.

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Why SD-WAN is the Future of Global Connectivity

CATO Networks

Surveyed companies cited bandwidth optimization, consistent application security, improved automation, and self-provisioning as top reasons why they are considering adopting SD-WAN. With the evolution of the cloud, networks directly affect our access to business critical applications, data, social media services, video conferences and more.

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WAN Optimization vs. SD-WAN, or Why You Need Both

CATO Networks

The Pros of WAN Optimization WAN optimization addresses MPLS limitations by tackling the three primary networking issues impacting the user experience when accessing data from across the WAN: bandwidth, latency, and packet loss. Bandwidth: Bandwidth limitations are addressed by minimizing the amount of data passed across the network.

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SASE: It’s the iPhone of Networking

CATO Networks

We had our PDAs for our contact lists and appointments, digital cameras to take photos, mobile phones to place calls, handheld GPS to find our way to places, and portable media players for music. We already had firewalls and UTMs. After all, the components in a smartphone predated this type of device by years. Convergence.

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The Pains and Problems of NFV

CATO Networks

This is a serious impediment because most service providers operate multiple access media in their footprint, and want to deploy vCPE services across as many of these media as possible including mobile/wireless technologies to cover more remote enterprise locations. “The trend is a bit scary,” he said.

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CloudBank’s Journey from Mainframe to Streaming with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

We need something that can handle large amounts of data, something that can handle unstructured data coming from logs and social media, and data in their native form. The first layer would abstract infrastructure details such as compute, network, firewalls, and storage—and they used Terraform to implement that.

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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Network: though you usually don’t pay for VPCs, there are bandwidth costs. With the technology changing very fast, however, it is hard to become an expert if you are not directly involved with the project as a committer or member of the community who actively attends conferences, joins meetups, and participates in social media.

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