Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

Best practices include: Baselining traffic bandwidths. Viptela: VPN Identifier, and Silver Peak: Application, Business Intent Overlay). 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. Going Forward….

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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

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 21, 2021

Yet, the traditional network architecture (MPLS connectivity, VPN servers, etc.) When a branch office is down, users work from remote, connecting back via the Internet to the VPN in the data center. wasnt built with cloud services and remote users in mind. The same is true for cloud connections.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

While some enterprises will have an active MPLS connection with an Internet/VPN connection for failover, hybrid WAN actively uses both connections. 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.

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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

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). They connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). The provider offered only a 1.5

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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

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

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bye, bye VPN. I dont know about you but Ive never liked my mobile VPN. The Cato mobile client works faster than any VPN Ive experienced. In the days before we enabled bandwidth throttling, a worker started to upload 520 GB of files to Amazon S3, hogging the sites upstream capacity. Keeping tabs on security.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 14, 2019

VPN has proven to be a popular solution for site-to-site connectivity. However, as demonstrated in this case study of a software security company expanding to Europe , VPN has a number of downsides that limit its practical applications. Finally, like VPN, MPLS struggles to provide optimized performance for cloud and mobile users (e.g.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, on the user side, enterprises are grappling with the limitations of VPNs, which were once the go-to solution for secure remote access. The VPN Dilemma VPNs, while effective for basic remote access, often fall short in addressing the evolving security and performance needs of modern enterprises.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Enterprise Solutions for Secure Remote Access There are three primary enterprise-grade solutions that businesses use today for secure remote access: Virtual Private Network (VPN); Zero Trust Network Access ( ZTNA ); and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). VPNs provide point-to-point connectivity.

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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

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. They encrypt traffic, like any other VPN, but lack the advanced security services necessary for defending against advanced persistent threats, malware penetration, and more.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

Remote Workers Need Network Access Comparable to In-Office Workers To accommodate the sudden surge of home-based workers, network managers might have ordered a slew of new VPN licenses, and maybe even a larger firewall or VPN appliance, to connect people to the corporate network.

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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 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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CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

A very common alternative architecture is to use firewalls to establish Internet-based VPN tunnels between enterprise locations. Massive increase in Internet capacity and availability Internet bandwidth availability and capacity have increased dramatically over the past decade as prices plummeted.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional VPN solutions enable connectivity for mobile and remote employees but do little to enable the same visibility and control possible on-premises. I can even see down to a single person and how much bandwidth (s)he is using. Routing traffic back through corporate headquarters for auditing isnt a practical solution.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, the basic firewall and VPN functions provided by most SD-WAN solutions are often not enough, forcing IT teams to try and overlay security across elastic and dynamic SD-WAN connections after the fact. Bottom line - MPLS bandwidth is expensive. State of Cybercrime survey.

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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. Its expensive and time-consuming for an engineer to visit branch locations around the globe to install firewalls and routers. For example, product developers in the U.S.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

billed on an opex model consumption-based, via a metered metric (such as ports, bandwidth or users), (not based on network devices/appliances). NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. A permissions issue caused by a reconfigured firewall rule? Was it a last-mile issue?

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

Operational costs grew as administrators had to manually configure and deploy routers and appliances needed in the branch offices: WAN optimizers for overcoming bandwidth limitations, stacks of security appliances for defending the Internet perimeter, packet capture and analysis appliances for visibility and more. There must be a simpler way.

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Kentik

JULY 6, 2017

Carrier MPLS services are really expensive bandwidth. But the reality is that within most providers both MPLS VPN services and public Internet services ride on the same shared network infrastructure. This can be fairly easily solved with a firewall or SD-WAN appliance that creates IPSec tunnels between the sites.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

Their MPLS configuration also required a stack of appliances firewalls, routers, and WAN optimization at each site that added costs and complexity. They had IPsec VPN from each store to the datacenter. Other than the datacenter and four stores, none of the locations had firewalls to protect them against malware and other attacks.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

The path-selection process for loss-sensitive applications, such as VoIP and video, for example, is no different from those that are bandwidth intensive. From a mobility perspective, teams need to assess the importance of assuring regional or global VPN access to WAN resources. But agility is more than just a networking issue.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Robust application-prioritization capabilities allow enterprises to align last-mile usage with business needs by prioritizing and allocating bandwidth by application. Enterprises also can prioritize bandwidth usage within applications using Catos identity-aware routing capabilities.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2017

Short-term connections can be set up with 4G/LTE and, depending on the service, mobile users can be connected with VPN clients. The SD-WAN node will load balance the connections, maximize their use of available bandwidth. All governed by the same set of routing and security policies used on the backbone.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

Third- party services deliver network functionalities such as VPN, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and Bandwidth on Demand (BoD). The Cato Cloud has a built-in network security stack that includes: Next-Generation Firewall. Network as a Service: A crash course With NaaS, many WAN complexities can be abstracted away.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2020

By contrast, integrating security and networking solutions, enterprises have to deploy and install separate solutions, such as SD-WAN and firewall appliances. Still, another console might be needed to ensure QoS and bandwidth rules aren’t throttling the line. Your IT team has had to juggle four or five consoles, already.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A virtual device representing a service demarcation might thus have a VPN VNF, a firewall VNF, and so forth. The shorter the distance, the higher the frequency thus, the more bandwidth that can be driven over the wireless network. . “The trend is a bit scary,” he said.

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