CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

WAN optimization has been with us for a long time. 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.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The WAN landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by demands of cloud, mobility, and globalization. However, the rise of SaaS applications, hybrid work, and global operations has created new challenges for MPLS-based networks, as their once-reliable architecture now fails to meet the demands of modern, cloud-centric environments.

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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. But just as were getting used to the toddling SD-WAN, along came yet another even more exciting newborn, the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Thats so yesteryear or is it?

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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. Also, companies need the ability to prioritize certain types of traffic across the WAN.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Challenge The WAN for J.s The company was moving to SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud (HEC) in Germany, which required the backhauling approach to be re-engineered. Cato proposed a phased approach Establish IPSEC tunnels from each of the companys firewalls to the Cato 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. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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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. I look forward to continued excellence from Cato Networks in 2017 and beyond.

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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. 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.

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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

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. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. This amicable live-and-let-live separation falls apart with todays SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

UCaaS traffic must be backhauled across the WAN to Internet access point resulting in inefficient traffic routing for voice and video calls, and potential quality issues related to excessive delay and jitter. Direct Connect Direct connect options extend the enterprise WAN so that the UCaaS provider appears as just another node on the network.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Uncontrolled Costs Slow Implementation SD-WAN – Agility is the driving force SD-WAN can augment MPLS connections with public Internet, allowing enterprises to lower WAN costs significantly. By utilizing the power of SD-WAN, businesses can improve agility and bring down costs. Improved performance of all WAN apps.

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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. Traditional WAN optimization tools do little to help address these challenges, as theyre simply designed to reduce bandwidth consumption. WAN optimization appliances couldnt fix that trombone problem.

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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

JUNE 5, 2018

IT organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). According to a July 2017 report from market-research firm IDC , SD-WAN adoption is seeing remarkable growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 9, 2019

The cost of the total solution Cato is providing us including the centralized management, cloud-based monitoring, and reports matches the cost of the firewall appliances alone. Standard Insurance needed an enterprise network optimized for the hybrid cloud and with strong protection for Internet-borne threats.

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Packet Pushers

MAY 12, 2021

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast explores essential networking capabilities in Azure, including Virtual WAN, VPN gateways, availability zones, SSL termination options, connecting premises and branch offices to the cloud, and more. Our guest is Pierre Roman, Sr Cloud Ops Advocate at Microsoft.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

As critical business applications migrate to the cloud, and the mobile workforce continues to grow, networking and security solutions need to evolve in order to meet the changing business needs. Regardless, the WAN became complex, costly and the epitome of lack of agility. Maintaining such a setup was becoming increasingly difficult.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The Dutch engineering company had built a global wide area network (WAN) out of MPLS and Internet services connecting 17 locations 14 in Europe and 3 in the Asia Pacific with about 800 mobile and field employees. Cloud applications were starved for bandwidth as they were backhauled across a 10 Mbits/s connection to the datacenter.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

As the WAN is the ingress and egress point of corporate networks, securing it is vital to mitigating risk and improving security posture. However, cloud services and mobile users make networks much more dynamic and difficult to secure than they were just a decade ago. SD-WAN appliances are not security appliances. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Some of the main contributors to these challenges include: Evolving Networks: Corporate networks have grown and evolved rapidly in recent years with the adoption of cloud computing, remote work, and Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices. Implementing consistent security protections across the enterprise can be a significant challenge.

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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. Gartner identifies the specific attributes of a cloud service. Its why SASE has emerged to be such a dominant force.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For most organizations, cloud-based solutions are the only means of supporting a secure, high-performance, and scalable zero trust architecture. As cloud adoption and remote work become more common and cyber threat actors grow more sophisticated, this model is increasingly ineffective.

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CATO Networks

MAY 18, 2021

When Gartner published its seminal report on SASE (The Future of Network Security Is in the Cloud, August 2019), the analyst firm listed the reduction of complexity and costs as one of the top benefits of SASE. Secure Web Gateway (SWG) services in the cloud were used to secure the web traffic.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2021

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? Heres a list of the key acronyms to help you keep up with the latest in WAN transformation. SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) converges network and security functionalities into a single cloud-based solution.

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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. Cato Networks is a pioneer of a new architecture that provides FWaaS as part of a broader WAN transformation platform.

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Kentik

MARCH 9, 2023

For cloud network specialists, the landscape for their observability efforts includes a mix of physical and virtual networking devices. Regarding telemetry in cloud networks, the measurement, transmission, collection, and processing of these signals is both a tremendous challenge and an opportunity for network operators.

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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

MARCH 15, 2018

More and more IT managers are interested in converging SD-WAN with network security and for good reason. But as weve noted before, traditional SD-WAN fails to adequately address the security dimension, relying on existing security appliances and solutions. Cato Cloud is different.

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CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2017

Cato SD-WAN is First to Converge Global Networking and Advanced Security Services Cato introduced today a context-aware Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) as part of its Cato Cloud secure SD-WAN service. Cato IPS is the first to be integrated with a global SD-WAN service , bringing context-aware protection to users everywhere.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

Instant-on for locations and users : WE can connect enterprise customers locations and users to Cato quickly through zero-touch provisioning and let the Cato SASE Cloud handle the rest (route optimization, quality of service, traffic acceleration, and security inspection). No capacity planning is needed.

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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. Youve decided to look for MPLS alternatives: Do all roads lead to SD-WAN?

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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). The Tactical Start The ripple effect of SASE often starts small, typically focused on a single use case like modernizing WAN infrastructure.

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Kentik

MARCH 7, 2021

Over the last 3 years of my last gig, I built a little bundle we could deploy with tools across public cloud instances or in our data center. Transactions queueing quickly become the failure point in the application stack, and it usually takes out multiple components along the way — firewalls, service mesh, API gateway, etc.

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