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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are. The WAN was how we got access to some websites and sent emails.

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Networking Glossary: Top 16 Networking Terms Everyone Should Know

CATO Networks

Hybrid Wide-Area Network (Hybrid WAN) a type of wide area network that sends traffic over two or more connection types. For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection. Internet Backhaul moving large amounts of data between major data aggregation points.

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What is SD-WAN?

CATO Networks

Work is done in more places and the Internet has become central to how business is conducted. This means that corporate networks must change as well. The answer Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs). SD-WAN brings unparalleled agility and cost savings to networking. How Does SD-WAN Work?

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

CATO Networks

As critical business applications are moving to the cloud and with the wide adoption of SaaS and mobile applications in the workplace, connectivity becomes a crucial business asset with the direct effect on the bottom line. Software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) can get the job done. Here is why.

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Network Engineer Roadmap | Complete Guide for 2025

NW Kings

At Network Kings, you will learn networking concepts (routing, switching, IP addressing) and basic network security fundamentalssuch as how to block websites and manage port numbers. Understanding the OSI model and routing protocols is crucial; because routing is the backbone of internet connectivity.

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Lipstick on a Pig?: Hybrid WAN, SD-WAN and the Death of MPLS

CATO Networks

It had risen as a response to the business need for a reliable and predictable network performance across the wide area network (WAN). For example, remote office employees needed access to latency sensitive enterprise applications like ERP, CRM and Virtual Desktops that were hosted in the companys data center.

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The Future of the Firewall is in the Cloud 

CATO Networks

It solved an urgent problem – users wanted direct internet access from anywhere without the need to backhaul to corporate VPN concentrators appliances or data center firewalls. With the public Internet being the underlying network, Zscaler only option was to build its solution as an overlay proxy.