CATO Networks

AUGUST 26, 2019

In one form or another the question: how can SD-WAN deliver the same reliability and redundancy as MPLS when it uses the public Internet? Catos cloud-native approach to SD-WAN not only matches MPLS reliability across the middle-mile, it offers better redundancy in the last-mile. My response? SD-WAN + public Internet alone cant.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 17, 2022

One of the common drivers for this project is cost savings, specifically the reduction of MPLS connectivity costs. But, what happens when the cost of MPLS is low? Should these customers stay with MPLS? The hub and spokes are changing. For example, Office365.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2016

In both cases, the customers wanted to extend an MPLS-only WAN into a hybrid WAN based on a combined MPLS and Internet connectivity. Is MPLS Secure? MPLS security is based on the fact that it is a private network vs. the public Internet. The irony of an MPLS circuit is that the security is VLANsthats all it is.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Its about a year before your MPLS contract expires, and youve been told to cut costs by your CFO. That MPLS too expensive. Naturally, its your job to find a solution… There actually could be several reasons why its time to pull the plug on your MPLS, or at least, consider MPLS alternatives. Find an alternative.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Its no secret that the legacy WAN faces many challenges adapting to todays business, the big question is: Whats going to replace MPLS? Legacy WAN architectures based on MPLS services provide predictable performance between offices, but theyre not implemented in a way that easily accommodates the new realities facing IT.

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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. MPLS services arose at a time when threats existed out there on the Internet and Internet traffic was the exception not the norm.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

MPLS is a reliable routing technique that ensures efficiency and high performance. However, global changes like remote work, mobile connectivity and cloud-based infrastructure require businesses to reconsider their MPLS network strategy. What is MPLS? What is MPLS? How does MPLS Work?

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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 2, 2018

Over the years, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) had left Paysafe with a mix of offices connected by MPLS and Internet-based VPNs. But neither Internet-based VPN nor MPLS were suitable for connecting all locations. MPLS was no better. Deploying MPLS sites was a nightmare.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

We expected other drivers, such as MPLS cost reduction, eliminating bandwidth constraints, or optimizing cloud access, to be at the top of the list. Because SD-WAN is a code name for MPLS WAN transformation project. MPLS WANs were never designed with security, and specifically, threat protection, as a core feature.

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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. 1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries? 1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

As the company grew, Alewijnse found MPLS connectivity to be increasingly unable meet its business requirements. 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.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 18, 2019

The IT manager at a leading automotive components manufacturer recently shared his experience transitioning his company from MPLS to Cato SD-WAN. During the webinar, we spoke about the reasons behind the decision, the differences between carrier-managed SD-WAN services and cloud-based SD-WAN, and insights he gained from his experience.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Multinational corporations have traditionally needed global MPLS services to build their WAN. By leveraging the power of distributed software, plentiful IP capacity, and off-the-shelf hardware, SD-WAN as a service provides a reliable, flexible, and inexpensive alternative to MPLS. Corporate applications are increasingly in the cloud.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

MPLS is a 20 years old enterprise networking technology. The alternative to MPLS, if you could think of it this way, was to jump into the Internet Abyss with Internet-based connections (IPVPN). Guaranteed service levels come at a price with MPLS spend representing a big part of the IT networking budget.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2017

The Search for Affordable MPLS Alternative Global organizations are looking for SD-WAN services to provide an affordable, MPLS alternative. 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.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Nick Dell is an IT manager who recently led a network transformation initiative at his company, moving from MPLS to SD-WAN. Dell shared why he made that transition and the lessons he learned along the way in the webinar SD-WAN Confessions: How I migrated from MPLS to SD-WAN. Issues arose about a year into the MPLS contract.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 13, 2020

If you are about to renew your MPLS contract, or if you need to upgrade your capacitySTOP! Dont commit to another year of MPLS until youve had time to consider if its the right technology to carry your business forward. Modern enterprises now have alternatives to MPLS that are more flexible and just as reliable for building a WAN.

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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. This approach is ill-suited to a rapidly changing application delivery model in which apps may reside in public cloud infrastructure (e.g.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Which architectural approach will best serve your needs MPLS, public internet or cloud networks? The low-cost, easily adopted public Internet is an attractive option for reducing bandwidth costs, at least when compared to MPLS. Despite price erosion, MPLS services remain significantly more expensive than Internet services.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2017

MPLS networks: pros and cons MPLS is the defacto choice for most enterprises, and for a good reason. MPLS offers guaranteed availability and optimized application performance, as well as high levels of latency and stability. A typical MPLS network install can take months to order, install, and implement.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 15, 2017

And, by enterprise networking we mean the use of MPLS at the core of enterprise networks. So, to SD-WAN or to MPLS? MPLS Pros and Cons If you are an MPLS customer, you are familiar with the benefits and challenges of the technology. The MPLS architecture and its guarantees are now under pressure.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 10, 2018

Cato Cloud is more than just SD-WAN. It converges threat protection, cloud security, SLA-backed networking, and optimized mobile access as well as SD-WAN into a single, global network. With so many capabilities, Cato Cloud is being used by enterprises to address a diverse range challenges beyond whats normally seen with SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 5, 2018

Whether a dedicated wire or MPLS, the cost of traditional WAN technology increases in direct relationship to determinism. While the diagram shows a simple premises SD-WAN, the addition of Points of Presence (POP) in a core cloud SD-WAN enables management of the paths between the POPs. The benefits to real-time traffic are clear.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With the growing popularity of cloud services like Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) and the surge in mobile users thanks to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the ubiquity of smartphones, low latency has become more important than ever. On the surface, MPLS seems to solve this problem. Cloud and mobile is now the norm.

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Packet Pushers

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we continue our conversation with sponsor Singtel on how to make your existing WAN communicate with cloud services more effectively. The traditional MPLS network lacks the flexibility to support modern cloud services, such as breaking out traffic for content inspection or security scanning.

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Packet Pushers

JANUARY 26, 2022

We dive into the services Singtel provides, including Internet, MPLS, IP transit 4G/5G, and why you might want to consider Singtel for cloud connectivity. We dive into the services Singtel provides, including Internet, MPLS, IP transit 4G/5G, and why you might want to consider Singtel for cloud connectivity.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 30, 2018

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. WAN optimization was designed to overcome the limitations of MPLS-based networks.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

When Humphreys & Partners Architects , an architectural services firm, needed to open an office in Uruguay, the Dallas-based firm faced a problem all too familiar to MPLS buyers the high cost and inflexibility of MPLS. Pricing might have been the tipping point for Burns, but it was hardly his only complaint with MPLS.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

MPLS-based services are under pressure from emerging Internet-based solutions. With MPLS revenue streams at risk, the carriers are pursuing a two-prong strategy: augmenting MPLS with Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) and adding value-add services to the core network with Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 28, 2017

If your company is like most, its probably at least considering connecting a cloud datacenter to the WAN. Research shows that as of the end of last year, 90% of surveyed companies were using cloud services with 57% claiming hybrid cloud deployments. So whats the right approach? The pros and cons of those architectures.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In terms of networking, the WAN is incompatible with the modern enterprise on several levels: MPLS is a major cost item with huge lead times necessary for new deployments. Backhauling of Internet traffic is quickly outstripping existing MPLS links, driving the introduction of technologies like SD-WAN. As 451 puts it .

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CATO Networks

MARCH 4, 2018

Normally, such an objective would be mission impossible for a network built on MPLS and firewall appliances. The existing locations had firewall appliances connected by 100 Mbits/s, layer-2, MPLS connections. The company spent $10,000 per month for the 100 Mbits/s MPLS service and connections were still choking out, McNeill says.

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CATO Networks

MAY 3, 2021

Cracks are forming at the base of the cloud firewall. Those virtualized instances of the security perimeter vital to protecting cloud assets against unauthorized attempts to access an organizations cloud resources have begun showing their age. What is a Cloud Firewall Used For? Enter cloud firewalls. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

As critical applications migrate into Microsoft Azure, enterprises are challenged with building a WAN that can deliver the necessary cloud performance without dramatically increasing costs and complexity. Azure SD-WANs MPLS and SD-WAN Problem When organizations start relying on Azure, two problems become increasingly apparent.

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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

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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