CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2018

With executives started to complain about being unable to access corporate resources when visiting other company offices, the IT team at Paysafe knew the time was ripe for WAN transformation. But neither Internet-based VPN nor MPLS were suitable for connecting all locations. The other SD-WAN service was managed only by the provider.

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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

MARCH 15, 2020

The most common enterprise remote access technology is Virtual Private Networking (VPN). A VPN client is installed on the users devices laptops, smartphones, tablets to connect over the Internet to a server in the headquarters. However, VPNs were built to enable short duration connectivity for a small subset of the users.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

One prominent alternative is Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platforms with embedded Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) that alleviate the security dangers and other disadvantages of VPN. VPNs Put Remote Access Security at High Risk In general, VPNs provide minimal security with traffic encryption and simple user authentication.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Challenge The WAN for J.s company is based on full mesh VPN tunnels over the internet between commercial firewalls. The company was moving to SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud (HEC) in Germany, which required the backhauling approach to be re-engineered. We have already initiated a replacement of the first four firewalls.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

Most enterprise WANs have historically used MPLS, but with the proliferation of cloud resources and mobile users, organizations are realizing the need to facilitate more flexible connectivity. With a hybrid WAN, two different types of network services connect locations.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. For example, a cloud engineer may be a novice in how encapsulation technologies work.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 10, 2018

IT teams are excited about the opportunities afforded by SD-WAN. If youve read this blog for any amount of time (or followed SD-WANs development in other blogs for that matter) youll know what Im talking about. But whats interesting about Cato SD-WAN is that even the SD-WAN hype doesnt do it injustice. Rapid deployment.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2018

SD-WAN is a flexible solution that integrates low-cost Internet transports into a virtual WAN connection. Utilizing multiple links and additional features such as load balancing, and real-time monitoring of circuit health and performance, SD-WAN can achieve the required high availability todays enterprises demand.

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CATO Networks

MAY 31, 2021

Due to the surge in remote work inspired by COVID-19, VPN infrastructure designed to support 10-20% of the workforce has failed to keep up. This has inspired companies to invest in scaling their VPN infrastructure, but this is not as easy as it sounds. All systems (VPN, networking, security, etc.)

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

Balancing these trade-offs across the many components of at-scale cloud networks sits at the core of network design and implementation. While there is much to be said about cloud costs and performance , I want to focus this article primarily on reliability. What is cloud network reliability?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Marketers have their brochures; engineers have their test reports, but nothing is more compelling when selecting an SD-WAN than real-life experience. Todays blog takes a look at some challenges real customers faced with their WAN infrastructure, and how Cato Networks was able to help. The proof truly is in the pudding, as they say.

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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

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

MARCH 1, 2017

While SD-WANs are a valuable first step towards evolving the wide area network , they only address a small part of the dissolved enterprise perimeter challenge. Impact of the Dissolved Perimeter The traffic patterns driving SD-WAN adoption change how companies protect their users and data.

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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. I couldnt trust them to manage the SD-WAN, says Dell.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Luckily, SD-WAN can be configured to prioritize business-critical traffic and real-time services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and then effectively steer it over the most efficient route. Performance MPLS was the top dog in enterprise WAN before cloud-computing and mobile smart devices exploded in popularity.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

WAN Transformation: SD-WAN Cost and ROI Analysis Its no secret that traditional wide area networks (WANs) have to change. Much has been made about their high costs, long-time to deploy, and poor fit for running Internet and cloud traffic. As a rule, SD-WAN appliance do not provide advanced security.

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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

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. SD-WANs automate these and other steps.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

They are moving their datacenters to the cloud, using more and more SaaS products, and moving their networking ( SD-WAN ) and security ( FWaaS ) to cloud-based solutions. This is why enterprises increasingly turn to service providers and the cloud to run compute, storage, networking, and security.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, with growing cloud adoption, this perimeter would need to enclose the entire Internet, making it ineffective for security. VPNs are a well-established remote access solution, and many organizations turned to them to support their remote employees. SASEs design can also eliminate the network performance impacts of security.

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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

JULY 29, 2018

The appliance form factor including the cost of hardware, software, and expert staff to maintain it is a burden which SD-WAN eliminates with Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). They connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). MPLS was not designed for this new reality.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

However, when it comes to SD-WAN technology it is difficult to ignore its obvious benefits. Dont take our word for it, heres what 9 leading industry experts have to say on the benefits of SD-WAN for enterprise networking: Is SD-WAN the future of networking? Enterprise networking experts often disagree on many things.

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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

MARCH 21, 2019

For global companies still operating with a legacy WAN architecture, WAN modernization is mandatory today for a variety of reasons. When it comes to modern cloud-based applications, a poor network will result in a poor experience. SD-WAN is a very broad category. Global companies have unique networking needs.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2021

As enterprises set out to modernize their networks, SD-WAN has become a key networking technology for connecting offices. Buy more VPN servers? It should be lean enough to run anywhere on any device, connecting any kind of location a branch, datacenter, or cloud resource. Processing resources are ubiquitous in the cloud.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If mobile VPN seems a persistent pain in the-you-know-where, youre not alone. He evaluated a range of solutions and eventually settled on Cato Cloud to connect his mobile users and 500 employees to AdRolls three datacenters running in Amazon AWS. During the webinar, we asked participants about their mobile VPN challenges.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

User complaints about slow VPN access have been with us forever. Mobile users struggle to gain global access to business applications using legacy mobile VPN clients. Traditional VPN architectures are also incompatible with cloud datacenters in services, such asAmazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, and cloud applications, such as Office 365.

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CATO Networks

JULY 30, 2024

The Role of the CISO Post-Pandemic The world has evolved and the on-going momentum of Cloud and Work-From-Anywhere (WFA) has become unstoppable. CISOs have realized their traditional security architectures, specifically VPNs, are no longer adequate to ensure only authorized users have access to critical resources.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 14, 2019

One complaint I often hear is how the WAN can be a bottleneck to productivity. Cloud-native SD-WAN provides a way to do just that. Challenges when connecting multiple offices There are a few common requirements when it comes to connecting multiple offices to the WAN. the trombone effect ).

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

They require new management, provisioning and security software distinct from that which is in place with the WAN. Traditional [mobile] VPNs mean opening the door to everything [on the network], says Adrian Dunne, global director of IT at AdRoll, a leading marketing technology provider. Defining access rights in particular is an issue.

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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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