CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Optimization has always been about overcoming latency, jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth limitations. However, in recent years bandwidth has become much less of an issue for most enterprises. Lower dollar-per-bit costs of bandwidth and apps that incorporate data duplication and compression are big drivers of this shift.

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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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Kentik

AUGUST 31, 2021

Six ASNs represented its domestic internet with international bandwidth coming from either satellite providers or its neighboring countries, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Iran. The geographic diversity of Afghanistan’s international gateways was born of necessity. Afghanistan Internet, 2011.

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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

APRIL 15, 2018

This elastic capacity allows for the rapid deployment of additional sites and changes in bandwidth requirements. Visibility Solutions such as Secure Web Gateways in the Cloud don’t provide visibility to the WAN. IT staff also no longer need be concerned about capacity planning when upgrading security appliances.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In the face of rising bandwidth costs and the limitations of MPLS , IT teams turn to SD-WAN, a more flexible and cost-effective solution that leverages public internet links to improve performance and reliability. However, the shift to SASE is not just a one-time swap of technologies.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

Depending on the answer, the bandwidth, speed, latency and performance requirements will differ. As pointed out in this post by Cradlepoint , distributed enterprises must be especially vigilant regarding the constant dangers specifically at the Networks Edge, which is particularly vulnerable since it is the gateway into the corporate WAN.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Performance is a key driver behind the movement, with 5G enabling: Greater throughput -- mobile broadband with bandwidth ranging from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps. In these cases, remote enterprise sites may not need the highest bandwidth but require a deterministic quality of service. Lower latency -- ultra-low latency down to 1 millisecond.

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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. Cato Security Service currently including a next-generation firewall, secure Web gateway, anti-malware, IPS , and managed threat detection and response. Protecting your network from infection isnt rocket science.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2018

Other problems, including extensive deployment times (as much as 90 days) and high bandwidth costs (think double or more their Internet equivalents), make MPLS incompatible with evolving enterprise requirements. The MPLS architectures of most enterprise WANs adds far too much latency to Internet- and cloud-destined traffic.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

QoS (Quality of Service ) the capability of a network to provide better service to selected traffic, including dedicated bandwidth and controlled jitter and latency. It is affected by latency, packet loss and WAN optimization.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 25, 2024

SASE seeks to address these issues by converging various functionssuch as SD-WAN , secure web gateways , cloud access security brokers (CASB) , and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) into a single, cohesive platform. This platform needs to be cloud-native to handle the ever-increasing demands of bandwidth and innovation.

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Kentik

MARCH 15, 2023

These attacks aim to overwhelm a service’s bandwidth capabilities with prohibitively high traffic volumes. Find misconfigurations and bad code that expose your network’s Border Gateway Protocol routes to vulnerability. There are three main types of DDoS attacks: Volume-based. Common volume-based DDoS attacks are ICMP and UDP floods.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2019

Voice and video traffic is on the rise, and it requires high bandwidth, low latency transport. Provide On-Demand Flexibility Easily and quickly modify bandwidth as business needs change by provisioning new circuits within days via self-service. Also, companies need the ability to prioritize certain types of traffic across the WAN.

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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 20, 2022

Youve been told to cut costs Its no secret that MPLS circuits cost a fortune often 3-4x the price of MPLS alternatives (like SD-WAN,) for only a fraction of the bandwidth. Get crystal clear on your WAN challenges: Do any of these challenges sound familiar? But the bottom line isnt the only factor to take into consideration.

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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.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

Unlike dynamic routes, learned through dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) or EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol), static routes require the network administrator to specify the next hop or destination IP address. A static route is a manually configured path in a routing table.

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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. Personally, I find the focus on the appliance form factor a reflection of legacy thinking.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2024

High Costs: MPLS circuits come with a hefty price tag, especially for global enterprises requiring high bandwidth. Rigid Architectures: Built-on fixed, hardware-centric designs, MPLS networks struggle to adapt to evolving business needs, hindering organizational agility.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

More bandwidth flexibility by aggregating Internet last mile connections Improved last-mile availability by connecting sites through active/active connections Faster deployments allowing sites to be connected in days not months 5 Things SASE Covers that SD-WAN Doesnt | EBOOK SD-WAN: The Teenager That Disappoints But then the world changed again.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

Rising MPLS Bandwidth Costs MPLS is expensive and eats up a large portion of IT spend. Upgrades and Replacements for Hardware Appliances – More users and traffic mean more required network bandwidth. This is essential for ensuring secure connectivity and business continuity.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Its also no secret that traditional networks add latency to UCaaS sessions, backhauling all cloud (including UCaaS) traffic to a centralized, secured Internet gateway. Sophisticated upstream and downstream Quality of Service (QoS) ensure UCaaS traffic receives the necessary bandwidth to and from a branch office.

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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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Kentik

JUNE 20, 2016

From the CIO perspective, network issues related to bandwidth constraints, latency, congestion, and packet loss are all tightly interconnected. From the CISO perspective, meanwhile, the network is the gateway to the business for attackers.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Moreover, traditional VPNs can introduce latency and bandwidth constraints, impacting application performance and user experience: Complexity : VPNs can be complex to manage, especially for large organizations with multiple locations and diverse user populations.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

The problem with this option is that MPLS is an expensive network that was not designed to carry heavy traffic (designed for mission-critical applications) and the internet traffic consumes a lot of the MPLS expensive bandwidth. MPLS also has other challenges like the complexity of deployment and provisioning.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2019

Third- party services deliver network functionalities such as VPN, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and Bandwidth on Demand (BoD). Secure Web Gateway. Network as a Service: A crash course With NaaS, many WAN complexities can be abstracted away. As a result, enterprises benefit from providers economies of scale and shift capex to opex.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

SASE converges ZTNA, NGFW, and other security services along with network services such as SD-WAN, WAN optimization, and bandwidth aggregation into a cloud-native platform. High-Performance FWaaS – Firewall as a service is a multifunction security gateway delivered as a cloud-based service.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

This is a network architecture configuration where traffic is directed from a VPN client to the corporate network and also through a gateway to link with the Internet. Split tunneling provides opportunity for attack To alleviate VPN capacity constraints, organizations sometimes utilize split tunneling.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Designed before the dawn of the commercial Internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the Internet infrastructure. BGP Basics: Routes, Peers, and Paths. One or multiple border routers. From the standpoint of BGP, every AS is pretty much the same.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

He found that deploying an SD-WAN solution with a fully integrated security stack, which included next-generation firewall (NGFW), secure web gateway (SWG), Advanced Threat Prevention, and network forensics, met his budget and security requirements. The problem it addressed was the issue of last mile bandwidth and availability.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Another downside to the traditional approach to network visibility and packet inspection is that it is tied to physical or virtual site-specific devices such as Next-generation Firewalls (NGFWs), Secure Web Gateways (SWGs), and Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances. Cato is powerful beyond belief.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

Catos access controls ( Next Generation Firewall , Secure Web Gateway ), Advanced Threat Protection (IPS, next generation anti-malware) and managed threat detection and response (MDR) capabilities are enforced globally, ensuring that remote users benefit from the same protection as office users.

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Kentik

APRIL 19, 2023

They heavily rely on BGP (Border Gateway Protocol, the protocol that networks use to exchange routes) to define which cache an end user is directed to. Higher demand means the need for bandwidth will justify more servers, which again means more disk space will be available to cache more content.

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Vedcraft

JUNE 16, 2024

Processing data closer to its source will continue in 2024 and beyond for lower latency and improved performance for business applications. Community-driven initiatives such as The FinOps Foundation help with socializing Cloud Cost Management framework and practices, and organizations will continue to start leveraging these in 2024, and beyond.

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