CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2019

In 2014, Gartner analysts wrote a Foundational Report (G00260732, Communication Hubs Improve WAN Performance) providing guidance to customers on deploying communication hubs, or cloud-based network hubs, outside the enterprise data center. What is a communication hub? This helps deliver predictable network performance. using secure tunnels.

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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. Cato Cloud has demonstrated true innovation and is leading the way for Software Defined Wide Area Network. The TMC award is the latest recognition for Catos revolutionary cloud-based SD-WAN, Cato Cloud.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It is the networking equivalent of a killer application that allows companies to use a variety of transport mechanisms besides MPLS and to steer traffic according to business priorities. A distributed network architecture is critical to support the increasing use of cloud platforms, SaaS applications, and especially remote and mobile workers.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

This phenomenon is highly applicable to many IT transformations such as cloud migration and move to hybrid work, but even more so to SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). It becomes a gateway to a broader transformation, as the initial project reveals the benefits of consolidating networking and security into a single cloud-native service.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

Zscaler offered a secure web gateway (SWG) as a service. Enterprises had to maintain their MPLS networks, SD-WANs, and network firewalls and layer on top of them the SWG, CASB, and ZTNA proxies. Essentially, what Gur and I created was a brand-new form factor of the network firewall built for the cloud.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

1 And just this week, for the first time, Gartner included Cato in its “Magic QuadrantTM for Network Firewalls for the FWaaS implementation of a cloud-native SASE architecture, the Cato SASE Cloud. The FWaaS must run on a global cloud-native architecture. It’s not just about running redundant appliances in the cloud.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Traditional hub-and-spoke networking has enterprises backhauling WAN traffic from branches over MPLS circuits to a central site and applying security policies before sending the traffic to the cloud or the public Internet. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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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. Now a new kind of inexpensive, high-quality, SLA-backed backbone is emerging, one that allows companies to finally overcome their MPLS dependency. But that doesnt have to be the case.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 2, 2023

This is something that MPLS does not provide because it cannot support the cloud evolution that the manufacturing industry is experiencing. Additionally, global expansion is a major challenge due to the cost and complexity of turning up new sites, especially in locations where MPLS is not easy for carriers to offer and support.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

The need for 5 Gbps is happening on the most intensive, heavily used network connections within the enterprise, such as connections to data centers, between clouds in multi-cloud deployments, or to clouds housing shared applications, databases, and data stores in hybrid clouds.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

However, cloud services and mobile users make networks much more dynamic and difficult to secure than they were just a decade ago. Appliance-based SD-WAN and MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) simply arent designed to address these use cases. But what makes cloud-based SD-WAN security and the security as a service model different?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. SD-WAN ROI Driver #1: Reducing MPLS Connectivity Costs Enterprises have long invested in managed MPLS services to connect locations. What is the ROI on SD-WAN projects? Here there’s a balance of considerations.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

SASE is an enterprise networking and security category that converges network and security technologies into a single, cloud-native service. 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).

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Fortunately, Cato Cloud offers enterprises a suite of network optimization tools that can. Middle-Mile Network Optimization Techniques: Reducing Latency In the past, MPLS provided enterprises with low-latency, albeit expensive, connectivity between sites. Well answer those questions here. They too faced the form factor problem.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

While the list of must-know terms is too long to cover in a single blog, here are some to incorporate into your vocabulary as you evaluate how cloud networking can benefit your organization. Firewall as a Service (FwaaS) a firewall delivered as a cloud-based service. For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection.

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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. Our 2018 survey included over 700 respondents from IT enterprises that currently run MPLS backbones. Forty-two percent said it reduced the cost of MPLS service.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) converges network and security functionalities into a single cloud-based solution. SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

The new darling of the networking industry would free us from the shackles of legacy MPLS services. It was cute, shiny, and taught enterprises how to walk — walk away, that is, from MPLS to a network designed for the new world. Resources moved into the cloud and the pandemic sent everyone home.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2022

Overall, Cato SASE Cloud is comprised of 70+ PoPs worldwide, bringing Catos capabilities to more than 150 countries. As with all our PoPs, Marseilles isnt just a gateway that secures traffic to and from the Internet. Cato SPACE is so effective and reliable, that enterprises can replace legacy MPLS networks and security appliances.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2017

Our applications and data live outside the safe confines of our datacenters in the cloud. Cato connects all enterprise resources: data centers, branches, cloud infrastructure and mobile users and connect into a single network in the cloud. With the Cato Cloud, the network becomes simpler again. There is just the network.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

After all, todays point solutions that only address cloud migration, remote work or certain security threats, will only remain relevant for so long. Rising MPLS Bandwidth Costs MPLS is expensive and eats up a large portion of IT spend. SASE can be adopted gradually and grow incrementally as current MPLS contracts expire.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Googles recent announcement of the GCP Network Connectivity Center (NCC) joins other similar services such as Amazons AWS Transit Gateway and Microsofts Azure Virtual WAN. And with all major public cloud providers now offering private backbones, theres got to be one thats right for you, right? public cloud services each.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2018

Cato Cloud is different. The MPLS architectures of most enterprise WANs adds far too much latency to Internet- and cloud-destined traffic. Security appliances protect their locations; additional security elements are needed to protect other offices, cloud resources, and mobile users.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

NaaS is simply the delivery of virtualized network infrastructure and services following the standard cloud subscription business model popularized by SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. Fortunately, cloud-native SD-WAN platforms, like Cato Cloud , enable enterprises to leverage Network as a Service to its full potential.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

Today, there are global organizations with 10s of locations, roaming users with business and personal devices, and business applications both inside the local datacenter and in the Cloud. Using an MPLS network and routing the traffic over a reliable network.

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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. Security between locations, though, was not an issue provided the WAN was based, as most were, on a private MPLS service. This amicable live-and-let-live separation falls apart with todays SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2017

FWaaS is a cloud-based architecture that eliminates the need to deploy firewalls on-premises, mainly in remote branches, in order to provide site-to-site connectivity and secure Internet access. The Cato Cloud converges WAN Optimization , SD-WAN , a global SLA-backed backbone and network security ( FWaaS ) – into a single cloud service.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Migration of applications to the cloud had been going on for a decade, offloading complex datacenter operations away from IT, and in that way increasing business resiliency and agility. However, the migration of other pillars of IT infrastructure, such as networking and security, to the cloud is a newer trend.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

But whats particularly interesting for anyone moving away from a global MPLS network or otherwise looking at WAN transformation is the impact NaaS will have on evolving the enterprise backbone. Only by converging SASE with NaaS can companies eliminate costly, legacy MPLS services. But SASE alone cant replace MPLS.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

According to Gartners report, Firewall as a Service is a firewall delivered as a cloud-based service that allows customers to partially or fully move security inspection to a cloud infrastructure. It does not just conceal physical firewall appliances behind a cloud of smoke and mirrors, but actually eliminates the appliance altogether.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Components of SSE Like SASE, SSE offerings converge cloud-centric security capabilities to facilitate secure access to the web, cloud services, and private applications. The cloud and shift to work-from-anywhere have inverted access requirements, putting more users, devices, and resources outside the enterprise network.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When I read that less than 20% of IT professionals indicated their organizations can properly monitor public cloud infrastructure, it reminded me of the reoccurring network visibility conversations I have with network managers from around the globe. But what exactly makes cloud-based SD-WAN different?

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Cloud Service vs. Point Products In 2015, the cloud disruption was already in full swing. The applications and infrastructure pillars of IT were continuously displaced by cloud-based services. These were largely untouched by the cloud and dominated by appliance-based solutions (routers, firewalls, etc.).

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

Since SASEs introduction, many networking and security vendors have rushed to capitalize on the market by partnering with other providers to include cloud backbones as part of their SASE offerings. But SASE isnt just a bunch of features in appliances managed from the cloud. But you must consider the architecture of this network.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

For distributed enterprises, a network technology solution must support connections to all of the locations, data centers, and cloud partners anywhere in the world. Business critical applications Important question to ask: where are your business critical applications located — in an in-house data center or in the cloud?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Secure Access Service Edge “ Analysis By: Joe Skorupa; Neil MacDonald Definition: The secure access service edge (SASE) are emerging converged offerings combining WAN capabilities with network security functions (such as secure web gateway, CASB and SDP) to support the needs of digital enterprises.

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