CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) certainly fits that billing. But whats particularly interesting for anyone moving away from a global MPLS network or otherwise looking at WAN transformation is the impact NaaS will have on evolving the enterprise backbone. Gartner identifies the specific attributes of a cloud service.

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

The WAN was how we got access to some websites and sent emails. What changed Over the last 15 years, though, the quality of the public internet has improved significantly. We still need to connect our infrastructure to the public internet, so the enterprise WAN is still about routers, circuit IDs, and perimeter firewalls.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet. Keep in mind however, that unless SD-WAN is deployed as part of SASE, it cant support global connectivity, network optimization, WAN and Internet security, cloud acceleration, and remote users.

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