CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

The widespread adoption of Software-Defined Wide-Area-Network ( SD-WAN ) in recent years has caused many to wonder whether WAN optimization is still necessary. Bandwidth: Bandwidth limitations are addressed by minimizing the amount of data passed across the network. The technologies are similar.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Cloud computing has been an integral part of the modern enterprise for some time. No longer an emerging technology, cloud computing is now used in everything from applications, storage, and networking. With vendors like Amazon AWS and applications like Office 365, the cloud computing market is projected to reach $411B by 2020.

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CATO Networks

JULY 24, 2023

SASE = SD-WAN + SSE. It identifies two elements that underpin SASE , namely the network access technology ( SD-WAN ) and secure internet access ( Security Service Edge (SSE) ). The East-West WAN traffic visibility gap : SASE converges two separate disciplines: the Wide Area Network and Network Security.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

We, at Cato Networks, are excited to sponsor the 2017 Guide to WAN Architecture & Design. The wide area network (WAN) is a critical and fundamental resource for any business. As we will discuss in this guide, the WAN is evolving, so the architecture must evolve, as well.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today we announced that Cato Networks was named a Leader and Outperformer by GigaOm in the analyst firms Radar for SD-WAN Report. The report evaluates 20 notable SD-WAN vendors, including Cisco, Fortinet, Versa Networks, Juniper, Palo Alto, VMware, and others. GigaOm calls Cato a vendor to watch for its innovation.

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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

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

APRIL 16, 2018

According to a report from Forrester, 90% of Network Managers are looking to evolve their WAN with a software-defined approach. Below are valuable on-demand webinars that answer crucial questions about growing SD-WAN technology. Each webinar provides insight into different SD-WAN topics for IT leaders to consider.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Multinational corporations have traditionally needed global MPLS services to build their WAN. That has changed now that secure, global SD-WAN as a Service is available worldwide. Service level agreements are a key part of global MPLS networks. Corporate applications are increasingly in the cloud.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

MPLS also doesnt address cloud or mobile traffic, which is a major issue for enterprises. Security policies for MPLS based networks need to be managed at each site and the various appliances must be continuously updated and upgraded. Check that the SD-WAN can also connect cloud datacenters, cloud applications, and mobile users.

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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. Instead, he addressed all of his MPLS connectivity and security requirements with Cato Cloud.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

MPLS is a 20 years old enterprise networking technology. It had risen as a response to the business need for a reliable and predictable network performance across the wide area network (WAN). Than, network equipment has to be installed and configured at every location. Enter the Hybrid WAN.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2018

Weve long touted the benefits of a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) so its encouraging to see that enterprises are increasingly recognizing its value. IDC recently surveyed mid-market enterprises and found they are rapidly embracing SD-WAN infrastructure and services.

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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

JUNE 5, 2018

IT organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). The IDC report estimates that worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure and services revenues will see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 69.6% and reach $8.05 billion in 2021. and reach $8.05

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Enterprise networking experts often disagree on many things. 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?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 25, 2018

Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) has become a runaway success across all industry sectors. Analysts at IDC have estimated the SD-WAN gold rush will increase with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 70 percent by 2021.

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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.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. Security was never a strength of SD-WAN companies and legacy telcos.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Weve been discussing the impact the dissolving perimeter has had on networking and IT. Rather than IT playing this kind of shell game on itself, IT should evaluate WAN architectures holistically and look at the quality of experience, availability, security, cost, agility, manageability, and extensibility of the network.

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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. See also WAN Latency. See also Jitter.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2019

SD-WAN certainly provides companies with a lot of flexibility, and one aspect of that flexibility is how to manage the networking solution. One management model is the Do it yourself (DIY) approach, which has long been popular with enterprises that purchase and deploy the SD-WAN appliances themselves.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2016

Like any other service provider, IT needs to move at the speed of its customers (the business) and adapt to emerging requirements including Cloud access, mobile connectivity, data security and more. Where SDN has traction is within the discipline of SD-WAN. SD-WAN is a narrower implementation of SDN concepts.

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Kentik

MARCH 26, 2018

Looking back at the flood of announcements and the flurry of M&A activity, it’s fair to say that 2017 was the “Year of the SD-WAN.” Or at least the year that SD-WANs were permanently etched into our collective consciousness. The benefits of SD-WANs are compelling both economically and operationally.

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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. IPS inspection is also location bound and often does not extend to cloud and mobile traffic.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

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). VNFs) in the cloud. Dont run discrete appliances (i.e

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CATO Networks

JULY 13, 2016

As the name suggests, the segment is focused on the migration of on-premise firewalls to the Cloud. However, we view the opportunity more broadly through the convergence of both Software-defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) and network security in the Cloud.

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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. The result: continued costs and complexity that limit the value of WAN transformation.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2018

The patchwork of appliances and network services comprising our wide area networks (WAN) have been with us for so long its easy to overlook their impact on IT. Its this curse of complexity that became a major theme in our new report, State of WAN 2018: Too Complex to Ignore.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

Enterprises had to maintain their MPLS networks, SD-WANs, and network firewalls and layer on top of them the SWG, CASB, and ZTNA proxies. Migrating your Datacenter Firewall to the Cloud| Download the White Paper This complex reality was what Gur Shatz and I set out to change as we launched Cato Networks in 2015.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week, we learned the SD-WAN market is forecasted to reach $3.3 Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Here are those headlines and more: Cisco, VMware in SD-WAN market ‘two-horse race’ (SDxCentral).

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Juniper

JANUARY 21, 2025

Maar los daarvan zijn we onafgebroken bezig geweest met het vernieuwen van ons AI-native netwerkplatform en hebben we keihard gewerkt aan het halen van onze go-to-market doelstellingen voor onze segmenten Enterprise, Serviceprovider en Cloud. En ik ben enorm trots op wat Juniper allemaal heeft bereikt in 2024.

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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. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

But while UC brings the cost and complexity of hosting and maintaining server infrastructure in the enterprise datacenters, UCaaS avoids those problems, putting UC in the cloud. The UCaaS challenge for modern WANs For all of its benefits, UCaaS poses significant challenges for traditional enterprise network architectures.

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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. In fact, according to IDC , SD-WAN is entering a period of rapid adoption. In recent years, we see cloud migration on a large scale.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Seamless transition between home and office Today, networking and security infrastructure investments in MPLS, SD-WAN, and NGFW/UTM are focused on the office. By decoupling these capabilities from physical appliances hosted in a fixed location, and moving them to the cloud, they become available to users everywhere.

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