CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

Cato automatically chooses the best route for your traffic dynamically, resulting in a predictable and reliable connection to resources compared with public Internet. Included features like QoS, TCP Acceleration, and Packet Loss Mitigation allow customers to fine-tune performance to their needs.

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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

JUNE 1, 2020

For example, the trombone effect (the inefficient backhauling of cloud bound traffic through a specific network endpoint) often meant MPLS connectivity to cloud assets was worse than standard Internet connections. As a result, businesses turned to SD-WAN and Internet-based VPN solutions as an alternative. The solution?

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

In other cases, it might be a global SD-WAN deployment, which relied too much on the unpredictable Internet. Once inspected, moving traffic to a private datacenter or other sites across the global Internet is asking for trouble. The Internet might be fine as an access layer, but its just too unpredictable as a backbone.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2017

If you are already using MPLS, you are well aware of its challenges: high costs, rigidity, long time to deploy and incompatibility with the growing demand for direct cloud and internet access. We discussed at length what makes the public Internet a problematic WAN backbone. This is where IP transit enters the picture.

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CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2023

The public Internet routes traffic in favor of cost savings for the ISP without consideration for performance. While peering is also a key factor in achieving strong performance, a true global private backbone is critical to any SASE or SSE product and should provide value to both Internet-bound and WAN traffic.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We all get the concept: to transmit data over a TCP/IP network like the Internet requires the data be broken down into small packets (usually less than 1500 bytes) containing the relevant application data (payload) and headers. The problem arises when this process fails, and packet loss occurs. Ping statistics for 203.0.113.2:

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CATO Networks

MAY 9, 2024

However, MPLS is pricey, VPNs are complex, and using the public Internet often leads to performance issues due to ISPs prioritizing cost over quality. Globally, traffic is routed over a global private backbone with QoS bandwidth prioritization policies, TCP acceleration and packet-loss mitigation, to reduce latency, packet loss, and jitter.

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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? One or multiple border routers.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Introduction Organizations need to protect themselves from the risks of running their business over the internet and processing sensitive data in the cloud. allow users on the corporate VLAN to access printers located in the printer VLAN, over specific TCP ports. allow IOT devices (e.g.

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CATO Networks

JULY 18, 2018

Cato Socket, Catos SD-WAN appliance, supports a broader mix of active/active and active/passive failover configurations for MPLS and Internet connections. Last-mile congestion, a significant cause of packet loss, is also mitigated through advanced QoS support for upstream/downstream bandwidth.

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Kentik

MARCH 27, 2017

These datacenters each have multiple BGP Internet peerings to facilitate resilience and performance. The collective bandwidth profile of these datacenters is high volume, in some cases adding up to hundreds of Gbps. Vulnerabilities and Diversity.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Just to be sure we’re on the same page, a DoS attack is an attempt to make computing or network resources unavailable for normal usage, such as interrupting a host’s access to the Internet or suspending its services to the Internet.

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Kentik

APRIL 24, 2023

Only then can we pinpoint why one of our data center ToR switches is overwhelmed with unexpected traffic, why our line of business application is experiencing latency over the SD-WAN, why an OSPF adjacency is flapping, or why our SaaS app performance is terrible despite having a ton of available bandwidth.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level across a variety of metrics. Key Findings Traffic Global Internet traffic grew 17.2% Google maintained its position as the most popular Internet service overall.

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Kentik

JULY 21, 2017

This week Google announced a new congestion control algorithm for higher bandwidths and lower latencies for internet traffic. Here are those headlines and more: Google’s New Networking Algorithm to Boosts Internet Throughput (TechCrunch) Google announced a new congestion control algorithm this week called TCP BBR.

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