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

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

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 6, 2018

For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection. Internet Backhaul moving large amounts of data between major data aggregation points. QoS (Quality of Service ) the capability of a network to provide better service to selected traffic, including dedicated bandwidth and controlled jitter and latency.

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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

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). SASE can connect any network: the internet, MPLS, cellular networks and more. Speed and performance: SASE enables manufacturers to increase bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2018

The MPLS architectures of most enterprise WANs adds far too much latency to Internet- and cloud-destined traffic. 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.

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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

APRIL 15, 2018

This allows a comprehensive security policy to be enforced on WAN and Internet traffic, for fixed location and mobile users. This elastic capacity allows for the rapid deployment of additional sites and changes in bandwidth requirements. Thus, a separate firewall solution is required for the WAN.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

Alongside MPLS, Internet links co-existed as a lower quality and inexpensive alternative, which didnt come with the performance and uptime guarantees of dedicated connectivity. Many organizations ended up integrating both into their networking environments in an active (MPLS), and passive backup (Internet).

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

To securely connect users at any company location to business applications, or to secure traffic over the internet, we could either connect remote sites with an appliance on the perimeter site, or backhaul all the traffic to a datacenter. Backhaul traffic through the company datacenter and exit to the internet from a central location.

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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.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Incorporating the Internet into the enterprise network reduces costs and lets companies connect resources anywhere, but security is paramount. Robust application-prioritization capabilities allow enterprises to align last-mile usage with business needs by prioritizing and allocating bandwidth by application.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

MPLS came of age when users worked in offices, resources resided in the datacenter, and the Internet was an afterthought. It was hopelessly out of step with a world that needed to move fast and one obsessed with the Internet. High Availability (HA) becomes a headache: With SD-WAN relying on Internet connections, HA is all but required.

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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

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

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. And once on the Internet, latency remains unpredictable as UCaaS traffic is subject to the public Internet.

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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. Why is an understanding of BGP helpful in understanding Internet connectivity and interconnectivity?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

For all of its talk, SASE as understood by much of the industry, will not completely replace a global MPLS network; the Internet is simply too unpredictable for that. billed on an opex model consumption-based, via a metered metric (such as ports, bandwidth or users), (not based on network devices/appliances).

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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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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2024

High Costs: MPLS circuits come with a hefty price tag, especially for global enterprises requiring high bandwidth. SD-WAN provides a cloud-friendly, agile alternative to MPLS by leveraging a variety of connectivity options, including broadband internet, LTE, and 5G, to connect branch offices, datacenters, and cloud environments.

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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. Standards organizations, including the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), are also stepping in to codify 5G specifications.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

This couldnt have come at a better time… Employees have been blowing up the helpdesk, complaining about slow internet, laggy Zoom calls and demos that disconnect with prospects. True, SD-WAN will lower the bill and optimize spend by leveraging internet circuits massive capacity and availability everywhere. Find an alternative.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

Streamlining the network security infrastructure and providing secure Internet access from any location were the top 2 reasons for moving to SD-WAN in 2018. Protection was particularly important as employees accessed the Internet directly. The problem it addressed was the issue of last mile bandwidth and availability.

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Kentik

MARCH 15, 2023

These attacks aim to overwhelm a service’s bandwidth capabilities with prohibitively high traffic volumes. BGP hijacking has increasingly become a concern, as they cause changes to the routing of the internet’s autonomous systems and can cause severe disruption to a web application’s internet traffic. Protocol-based.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The problem is today enterprise WANs are a mix of MPLS, Internet-based VPNs, mobile users, and cloud services. The traffic is then routed on to a local Internet access point or across the WAN to a centralized and secure Internet access point before making its way to its destination in the cloud. Cato is powerful beyond belief.

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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. The Internet and corporate network can be accessed at the same time.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

However, access via VPN can be notoriously slow, especially as traffic is backhauled back across the Internet to the VPN server. Next-generation firewall (NGFW), intrusion prevention service (IPS), advanced threat protection, and network forensics are converged into Cato Cloud, protecting UCaaS and all traffic from Internet-borne threats.

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Kentik

JUNE 20, 2016

These vital pathways for information impact virtually every facet of business operations and security, especially for businesses that are Internet or wide-area network dependent, such as e-commerce companies or enterprises that are geographically distributed.

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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 20, 2019

Third- party services deliver network functionalities such as VPN, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and Bandwidth on Demand (BoD). The backbone includes over 45 PoPs across the globe interconnected via multiple SLA-backed ISPs (Internet Service Providers). Secure Web Gateway. At a high level, everybody wins.

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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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Kentik

APRIL 19, 2023

In this post, we will explore the benefits of embedded caching for internet service providers (ISPs) and discuss various strategies for optimizing the deployment of embedded caches in their networks. 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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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a suite of security services toprotect all traffic at all times. Does the vendor have the scale, bandwidth, and technical know-how to deliver line-rate traffic inspection? Our CASB, for example, inspects all Internet and cloud-based traffic.

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Vedcraft

JUNE 16, 2024

Internet of Things has witnessed substantial growth in connected devices and embedded computing power for automation, and the intelligent devices will continue to be built in 2024, and beyond. Processing data closer to its source will continue in 2024 and beyond for lower latency and improved performance for business applications.

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