CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

We were a bit surprised to find out that secure, direct Internet access was the top driver. We expected other drivers, such as MPLS cost reduction, eliminating bandwidth constraints, or optimizing cloud access, to be at the top of the list. Secure, Direct Internet Access: SD-WANs Self-Made Headache?

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CloudFaire

JANUARY 3, 2025

The Internet is designed to provide multiple paths between two endpoints. Attempts to exploit multi-path opportunities are almost as old as the Internet, culminating in RFCs documenting some of the challenges. As a result, Internet devices usually use a single path and let the routers handle the path selection.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

When it comes to the enterprise network, decisions need to be made with cost, performance, security, and future plans in mind. Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud.

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Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Network is the Key. The network is down!” — I’m sure you heard that before. Despite your best efforts as a network engineer, network failures happen, and you have to fix them. Network troubleshooting becomes easier if your network is observable. Network Troubleshooting Defined.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Latency is not a new problem in networking. Not as difficult as time travel, but it’s difficult enough so that for 30+ years IT professionals have tried to skirt the issue by adding more bandwidth between locations or by rolling out faster routers and switches. Fast forward to today, most networks enjoy five nines (99.999%) of uptime.

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Obkio

JULY 4, 2023

Learn about some of the most common network problems that businesses face every day, like high CPU, bandwidth, equipment issues, Internet failures, and more.

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are. So what does this mean for today’s enterprise network engineer?

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CATO Networks

MAY 4, 2020

Network latency costs money. However, when I discuss latency reduction and WAN acceleration with network managers and CIOs, one of the key takeaways is that getting network optimization right has changed significantly over the last decade. Its goal, like compression, is to maximize the available bandwidth.

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Kentik

MARCH 15, 2023

As networks become distributed and virtualized, the points at which they can be made vulnerable, or their threat surface , expands dramatically. This is compounded by recent trends of remote work, where network operators need to wrestle with the fact that employees often access the network via work sites with far less governance.

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Kentik

JANUARY 28, 2021

In part 2 of this series, I talked about the range of network devices and observation points that generate telemetry data. Over time, this range has expanded, and networks are more diverse than ever. Why is my bandwidth bill so high? What users and applications are consuming my network bandwidth? Telemetry Types.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

A recent conversation with a WAN engineer got me thinking about how network optimization techniques have changed over the years. 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.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Todays businesses have vastly different internet connectivity requirements than those from even just a few years ago. In global markets, finding a way to achieve a safe, reliable network connection has become critical for any business looking to stay relevant, competitive, and secure. But current options leave much to be desired.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

The world of networking has a language of its own which is continually evolving as new technologies emerge, innovative ways of delivering network services are deployed, and global connectivity becomes increasingly essential. For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection. Click here for a detailed overview of FwaaS.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

Why is Cisco ACI replacing traditional networks? Companies are increasingly moving from traditional networks to SDN-based networks. spine-leaf topologies provide excessive-bandwidth, low-latency, non-blocking server-to-server connectivity. Why is Cisco ACI replacing traditional networks? What is Cisco ACI ?

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CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

MPLS cost reduction is the target of the emerging SD-WAN market that is bustling with solutions looking to take the corporate wide area network to a whole new level. 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.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2016

Anyone with hands-on experience setting up long-haul VPNs over the Internet knows its not a pleasant exercise. It lies at the core of how the Internet was built, its protocols, and how service providers implemented their routing layer. From the early days of the Internet, routers were shaped by technical constraints.

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Packet Pushers

JUNE 18, 2021

On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we hear from Salesforce about the evolution of its branch network to SD-WAN. Salesforce was able to trade MPLS for Internet broadband, get more bandwidth for less money, employ application-based steering and policy enforcement, and more.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) adoption is on the rise in the enterprise and with that comes significant impact for IT managers considering how their MPLS network transformation. The UCaaS challenge for modern WANs For all of its benefits, UCaaS poses significant challenges for traditional enterprise network architectures.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Weve been discussing the impact the dissolving perimeter has had on networking and IT. Rather than IT playing this kind of shell game on itself, IT should evaluate WAN architectures holistically and look at the quality of experience, availability, security, cost, agility, manageability, and extensibility of the network.

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Kentik

MAY 24, 2023

It has been interesting to observe how professional sports have moved the transmission onto the internet instead of requiring their viewers to sit at home and watch their TV. Flow TV (traditional television) broadcasts are transmitted using dedicated networks, such as over-the-air, cable, or satellite.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Network architectures that served us well for years no longer fit global business in 2017. To meet the needs of a global enterprise, our network architectures need to evolve as well. Which architectural approach will best serve your needs MPLS, public internet or cloud networks? Our answer is, well, it depends.

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VIAVI Solutions

APRIL 16, 2024

Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of telecommunications, fiber to the home (FTTH) is emerging as the gold standard for high-speed internet connectivity. Passive Optical Networks (PON) are at the heart of this transformation, offering incredible bandwidth and reliability.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2019

Even though an enterprise network is considered the lifeline of an organization, there are certain challenges that have limited the efficiency of the enterprise networks. Ransomware, Malware, and BYOD Enterprise networks are affected by different types of security challenges. This can severely impact network performance.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 18, 2023

If you are used to managed MPLS services, transitioning to Internet last-mile access as part of SD-WAN or SASE might cause some concern. How can enterprises ensure they are getting a reliable network if they are not promised end-to-end SLAs? In addition, availability is also questionable.

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Kentik

MARCH 26, 2018

SD-WANs are the confluence of four technology trends: software-defined networking in wide area networks (WANs), commodity hardware for customer premise equipment, Internet connectivity for business applications, and enterprise IT hybrid multi-cloud migration.

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Packet Pushers

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Distributed Denial of Service attacks, or DDoS, have plagued the Internet for decades. And attackers are finding new ways to take advantage of higher levels of bandwidth and the ever-growing number of network-connected devices.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

We frequently talk to organizations who are enthusiastically searching for alternatives to their old and tired MPLS and IPsec networks. Theyre ready to realize the benefits of a new SASE infrastructure but remain constrained by their old beliefs about network engineering. There are no bits to set or devices to configure.

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Kentik

JUNE 8, 2021

EdgeUno was founded with a central focus: to improve the availability and quality of internet services in countries with emerging economies. With 20 PoPs and more than 2,500 internetwork connections, if you stream content or look at social media in Latin America today, you’re probably using the EdgeUno network. Reduces MTTR.

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Kentik

AUGUST 18, 2017

Verizon to Fund Own Emergency Services Network (TotalTelecom) Following AT&T’s FirstNet plans, Verizon announced it also intends to roll out a new services network for first responders to use in the event of an emergency. The AI-based system “automatically adjusts video quality based on network conditions,” according to Engadget.

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CATO Networks

MAY 29, 2023

For example, many organizations are rapidly adopting cloud computing, and the growing maturity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has the potential to unlock new operational efficiencies. Network Scalability: The expansion of corporate IT architectures to incorporate new technologies drives a need for more network bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 30, 2018

As our networks have evolved so to have the challenges of optimizing application performance. Our new eBook, Cato Networks Optimized WAN and Cloud Connectivity , analyzes those challenges and explains Catos unique approach to overcoming the performance limitations in todays cloud- and mobile-centric organizations.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

From this data, the team found that internet service providers are “giving a fixed amount of bandwidth—typically something in the range of one and a half megabits per second to four megabits per second—to video traffic, but they don’t impose these limits on other network traffic.” More quotes.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 22, 2017

Per user bandwidth consumption has likely grown significantly since your organization adopted an MPLS-based WAN. No longer is there a safe corporate network and dangerous Internet, the perimeter is dissolved leaving just the network. Internet bandwidth, for example, can be a tenth of MPLS circuit bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

We recently held a webinar focused on educating network professionals about Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). At the beginning of this webinar, we asked the audience what is your biggest challenge running distributed network security today? Backhaul traffic through the company datacenter and exit to the internet from a central location.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It could change your entire approach to network security, and help save your sanity. Standard network and security measures are no longer adequate to support modern business needs. Additionally, because we deal with sensitive issues like abuse and drug use, employees need free access to internet resources. If not, pay attention.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

The networking industry loves a good buzzword as much as any other IT sector. Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) certainly fits that billing. The term has been around for at least a decade has come back in vogue to describe networking purchased on a subscription basis. Gartner identifies the specific attributes of a cloud service.

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Engineering at Meta

MAY 22, 2024

Today, the internet (like most digital infrastructure in general) relies heavily on the security offered by public-key cryptosystems such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman (DH), and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). But the advent of quantum computers has raised real questions about the long-term privacy of data exchanged over the internet.

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