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How To Best Design Your WAN for Accessing AWS, Azure, and the Cloud

CATO Networks

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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What You Don’t Need from an SD-WAN Vendor

CATO Networks

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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Is SD-WAN Really Dead?

CATO Networks

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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The business case for SD-WAN: Because MPLS is Not Fit for the Cloud

CATO Networks

That means making sure the wide area network (WAN) that connects branch offices, data centers, cloud services and SaaS applications can handle the connectivity needs of digitally empowered global organizations. Software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) can get the job done.

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The Co-Managed SD-WAN: A Managed Infrastructure with Self-Service Capabilities for Agility

CATO Networks

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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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

CATO Networks

SD-WAN will not do these things for you. Best Effort Isnt Always the Best Way I have talked with numerous enterprises that replaced MPLS circuits with SD-WAN. By that I mean, traffic goes to the SASE solution providers PoPs to be forwarded to SaaS or IaaS applications or the Internet. How do we ensure good performance ?

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The Network Traffic Analytics that Enterprises Need

Kentik

As just one example, many organizations are now running SD-WAN technologies which require the monitoring and management of new solutions. While these SD-WAN products come with tooling, their visibility and management capabilities are lacking. Cloud Adoption and Network Visibility Gaps.

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