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The Carrier Cloud Needs a New Fabric, Not a Patched Cloth

CATO Networks

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’s 5 Gbps SASE Speed Record is Good News for Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud Deployments

CATO Networks

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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Integrated vs. Converged SASE: Which One Ensures an Optimal Security Posture?

CATO Networks

Security inspection and policy enforcement is performed at the cloud edge, instead of backhauling all traffic to a centralized data center for inspection. they find the fastest way to enter the SASE market is to virtualize existing hardware-based products and deploy them into public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

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The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as Described in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2019

CATO Networks

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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