CATO Networks

APRIL 11, 2016

Backhauling moves the traffic to a datacenter where firewalls are deployed and a secure Internet access is available. The networking team solved this problem with its resources without requiring collaboration with the security team (which managed the data center firewalls that covered ALL internet traffic for the organization).

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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.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In the face of rising bandwidth costs and the limitations of MPLS , IT teams turn to SD-WAN, a more flexible and cost-effective solution that leverages public internet links to improve performance and reliability. Operational Efficiency Managing disparate point solutionsSD-WAN devices, firewalls, VPNs, etc.creates unnecessary complexity.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While BCP is a company-wide effort, IT plays an especially important role in maintaining business operations, with the task of ensuring redundancy measures and backup for data centers in case of an outage. Yet, the traditional network architecture (MPLS connectivity, VPN servers, etc.) The same is true for cloud connections.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Performance MPLS was the top dog in enterprise WAN before cloud-computing and mobile smart devices exploded in popularity. Once cloud and mobile became mainstream, a fundamental flaw in MPLS was exposed. With MPLS, enterprises have to deal with the trombone effect . This is performance with business impact.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 21, 2017

Manufacturers create new facilities in Asia and Latin America and, more specifically, in China, behind the Great Firewall of China. There are three major options global MPLS , the public Internet and cloud networks. Enterprises that could not afford global MPLS had to use Internet-based services.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 1, 2025

The high costs and inflexibility of MPLS connections. The Great Firewall, designed to monitor and control cross-border data, slows down applications disrupts performance and create packet loss. Businesses benefit from MPLS-level reliability with the added flexibility to scale and support hybrid workforces.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Security between locations, though, was not an issue provided the WAN was based, as most were, on a private MPLS service. With its ability to separate customer traffic, MPLS services give enterprise IT professionals enough confidence to send data unencrypted between locations.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Companies needing to connect their users to the services in the cloud, who have been using a wide-area network (WAN) with MPLS for security, are seeing the benefits of using a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) for connectivity. Bandwidth-intensive traffic, bound for the Internet and cloud, are backhauled across the MPLS WAN.

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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. Network security is built into the Cato Cloud.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

In some cases, it might be an MPLS network, which is no longer suitable (or affordable) for the modern digital business. Traffic to cloud applications or cloud data centers exit at the PoP closest to these services, and in many cases within the same data center hosting both PoP and cloud service instance.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

The corporate WAN connects an organizations distributed branch locations, data center, cloud-based infrastructure, and remote workers. As the WAN expands to include SaaS applications and cloud data centers, managing this environment becomes more challenging. This reduces the cost and complexity of network management.

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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. It would give us even more more security, better remote access, and faster deployment.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

More specifically, t he rise of WAN optimization began around 2004 and addressed the limitations of the limited capacity of costly MPLS and leased line connections. SD-WAN eliminates the trombone effect where traffic is backhauled through the corporate data center for security inspection.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

SD-WAN provides big advancements in connecting branch locations into central data centers in a cost-effective manner. 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.

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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

JUNE 5, 2018

Most SD-WAN vendors provide basic security features such as encryption, layer 2 access control, and possibly some basic firewall functionality. By using service insertion or service chaining, separate security services such as firewalls and IPS are inserted into the data flow.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 21, 2019

WAN transport considerations Many SD-WAN solutions are big proponents of augmenting or replacing MPLS circuits with broadband connectivity, says Kerravala. Its expensive and time-consuming for an engineer to visit branch locations around the globe to install firewalls and routers.

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CATO Networks

JULY 25, 2023

Security leaders today are facing a number of challenges, including a rise in the number of breaches, a need to accommodate remote work and networking requirements to replace MPLS networks. Cato provides full visibility and control over all the incoming and outgoing traffic from cloud data centers. Lets delve into each one.

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CATO Networks

MAY 20, 2020

Castle and moat alone doesnt cut it anymore In the early 2000s, most mission critical data within a WAN flowed between corporate data centers and offices. This change not only drove a shift away from MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) , it changed how security is implemented within enterprise networks.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

As we discussed in our previous post, whereas with MPLS, networking teams had to wait weeks for new connections and days for bandwidth upgrades, SD-WANs use of DIA means new offices can be deployed in hours and days, and be reconfigured instantly. The secure networks performance and predictability rivals that of MPLS.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Once the direct connection is established, typically via Ethernet or MPLS, all sites are able to reach the UCaaS providers datacenter without having to traverse enterprise Internet connection points. 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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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

By contrast, The Cato SASE Cloud is the world’sfirst cloud-native SASEplatform , converging SD-WAN and networksecurity in thecloud.Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network resources including branch locations, the mobile workforce, and physical and cloud data centers, into a global and secure, cloud-native network service.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The legacy data center should no longer be considered the center of network architectures. Users, sensitive data, applications and access requirements will be everywhere. In many cases, branch office SASE adoption will be driven by network and network security equipment refresh cycles and associated MPLS offload projects.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

Best Effort Isnt Always the Best Way I have talked with numerous enterprises that replaced MPLS circuits with SD-WAN. If you cant control the performance of this traffic, you lose control over applications and thus over the user experience. Initially, users and management are often happy.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 21, 2017

But respondents (hailing from network, data center, and security operations teams) surfaced five main predictions for the year ahead. SD-WAN will continue to be a hot topic as it represents a significant cost savings for enterprises when compared to traditional carrier MPLS services,” according to Ryburn. “We AI in Networking?

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

He stated in a recent article Expect to see MPLS remain a significant force in the WAN for many years to come” Andre Kindness ( @AndreKindness ) Andre Kindness is a principal analyst at Forrester. Ivan will be running a series of online training sessions in 2018 about next generation data centers and network automation.

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