CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2023

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) provides the ability to implement a secure, high-performance corporate WAN on top of existing networks. However, SD-WAN infrastructures must be carefully designed and implemented to provide full value to the organization. SD-WAN is also beneficial for remote workers.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. Like so many technologies, though, there are the promises of SD-WANs and then there are the realities of SD-WANs. Bandwidth upgrades and changes can also take weeks.

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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? MPLS also has other challenges like the complexity of deployment and provisioning.

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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. The award is given to companies that demonstrate the innovation, vision, and execution to deliver software-based networking tools to support different and unique communities of interest.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 21, 2019

The growth and adoption of SD-WAN have continued strong through 2018 and we anticipate will continue into the next year. Gartner predicts the SD-WAN market to reach $1.3 Early adopters were generally motivated by the cost savings and improved performance, but many today are driven to adopt it because of the agility of SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What is the ROI on SD-WAN projects? Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. But the actual SD-WAN ROI is a mix of hard and soft savi n gs from increasing overall network capacity and availability to a reduc ed operational load of managing and securing the network.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2019

Ransomware makes use of backdoor entry predominantly, compromising the network security as well as the data security. With small branch offices often lax in their security policies, they become a favorite entry port for all too many attackers. However, data replication is subjected to higher usage of network bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

Happy To Announce the Birth of a New Technology – SD-WAN It wasnt that long ago that we oohed and ahhed over the brand-new technology called SD-WAN. The new darling of the networking industry would free us from the shackles of legacy MPLS services. SD-WAN: The Toddler Years When SD-WAN was born, there was much to love.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

SD-WAN adoption is seeing rapid growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications. As cyberattacks increase and evolve, effective network security is critical. Our 2018 survey included over 700 respondents from IT enterprises that currently run MPLS backbones.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Changes in our applications (cloud migration) and where users work (mobility) are driving the shift to software defined wide area networks ( SD-WANs ), but theyre also forcing us to rethink how we securely connect our users, application and data and deliver a compelling quality of experience.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Companies needing to connect their users to the services in the cloud, who have been using a wide-area network (WAN) with MPLS for security, are seeing the benefits of using a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) for connectivity. Other solutions like building regional hubs are still costly and complex.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Companies that are accustomed to the reliability and affordability of high-performance connectivity in North America and Europe might be challenged by WAN issues as they venture into less developed regions. Data and application security also are critically important. Cloud networks revolutionize global connectivity.

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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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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2018

Adaptations in WAN infrastructure that arise are necessary to meet the new and shifting IT landscape. Initially, SD-WAN was driven by the need for cost-saving since WAN infrastructure, MPLS, in particular, can be quite expensive. Today, its not just cost savings that are driving enterprises to SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Since its premier over a decade ago, SD-WAN was adopted by enterprises as the go-to-technology for preparing their network for the digital transformation. At the time this made sense, as SD-WAN brought important advantages: Optimized bandwidth costs, by leveraging inexpensive services like Internet broadband whenever possible.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2020

This would translate into multiple projects: negotiate MPLS contracts for global connectivity, deploy WAN optimization to improve the overseas application performance, connect offices with local Internet breakout, and secure each office with UTMs or SWGs. So lets compare the old way with the new.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

Fortunately, cloud-native SD-WAN platforms, like Cato Cloud , enable enterprises to leverage Network as a Service to its full potential. Here, well explore the basics of NaaS and explain how the Cato Cloud platform provides enterprises with the most effective form of Network as a Service. At a high level, everybody wins.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2017

Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth has experienced the surreal. While at home you might spend $50 for a 50 Mbps Internet link, MPLS services can cost 10 times more for a fraction of the bandwidth. So much depends on how you answer certain questions about your business, the resources available, and your networking requirements.

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CATO Networks

MAY 29, 2023

Remote workers need the ability to securely access corporate networks, and everyone requires secure connectivity to Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. Network Scalability: The expansion of corporate IT architectures to incorporate new technologies drives a need for more network bandwidth.

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Juniper

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Setting HPEs intent to acquire Juniper aside for a moment (which is still on track to close by early 2025), we have been relentlessly innovating our AI-Native Networking Platform and consistently delivering on our go-to-market goals across our enterprise, service provider, and cloud segments.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2018

More and more IT managers are interested in converging SD-WAN with network security and for good reason. An agile, efficient, and ubiquitous security architecture is essential if organizations are to fully transform their networks. Its an SD-WAN built from the ground up with security in mind.

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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 15, 2018

Since the beginning of networks, the lynchpin of network security has been the firewall. The first network firewalls appeared in the late 1980s, and gained almost universal acceptance by the early 1990s. IT staff also no longer need be concerned about capacity planning when upgrading security appliances.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Get crystal clear on your WAN challenges: Do any of these challenges sound familiar? 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. But the bottom line isnt the only factor to take into consideration.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

This is one of the reasons that, according to Gartner analyst Joe Skorupa , by 2020, more than half of WAN edge infrastructure refreshes will be based on SD-WAN versus traditional routers. In fact, according to IDC , SD-WAN is entering a period of rapid adoption. And here is where SD-WAN steps in.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

You may be familiar with the concept of localized versus centralized policies that exist within legacy SD-WAN architectures, but Catos cloud-native SASE architecture simplifies configuration and policy delivery across all capabilities from a true single management application.

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Kentik

AUGUST 30, 2021

In networking, this would mean that you can understand what’s going on in your network by interpreting the network’s telemetry data. Why is my bandwidth bill so high? There are degrees to which a network can be observable. And what configuration change caused this behavior? Observability is not a binary attribute.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In today’s digital age, where work from anywhere and hybrid cloud adoption are the norm, traditional network security perimeters have crumbled. IT organizations are using hybrid cloud strategies to combine the scalable, cost-effective public cloud with the secure, compliant private cloud.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 23, 2019

The current strain adds a host of new infection targets, including enterprise SD-WAN appliances, wireless presentation systems, and digital signage. Access to copious enterprise bandwidth may enable Mirai to launch even more devastating attacks than before.

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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. More connection density -- 1 million connected mobile devices in less than half of a square mile as compared to around 2K with 4G cellular networks.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Enterprises often embark on a SASE journey to address a specific, tactical needlike replacing SD-WAN or enhancing remote access securitybut what begins as a targeted project often leads to profound, far-reaching change across the entire IT landscape. By converging SD-WAN with network security , SASE empowers enterprises to be agile.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Enhancing Your Enterprise Network Security Strategy | Webinar Legacy Firewall Security Solutions Cant Keep Up Zero-day threat detection is essential for protecting against modern cyber threats, but it is also resource-intensive. This provides improved security visibility and additional context regarding cyber threats.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Fortunately for enterprises, cloud-based SD-WAN solves this problem by making secure, monitored, and policy-enforced WAN connectivity possible across the globe, on-prem and in the cloud, without sacrificing performance. But what exactly makes cloud-based SD-WAN different?

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a change that makes perfect sense, because network flow records provide clear and concise insight into network traffic patterns. Flow data for WAN monitoring. The trend in engineering and capacity planning applies as well to wide-area network (WAN) service assurance, where network flow data is also essential.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

Top Five Ways to Improve Network Performance Reduce latency, add capacity, and/or compensate for jitter and loss are obvious high-level answers to most WAN optimization challenges, but doing so effectively is where the real challenge lies. As a result, businesses turned to SD-WAN and Internet-based VPN solutions as an alternative.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 25, 2024

The concept of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) promised a revolution in network security. Its core intent: to simplify the deployment and consumption of both networking and security functions. This platform needs to be cloud-native to handle the ever-increasing demands of bandwidth and innovation.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2022

Survey Reveals Confusion about the Promise of SASE Prioritizing between network security and network performance is hardly a strategy. Yet, Catos recent industry survey with non-Cato customers, Security or Performance: How do you Prioritize?

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