CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth for their business and Internet DSL for their home has endured the surreal experience of paying 3 times or even 10 times more per megabit for MPLS bandwidth. High per megabit pricing is out-of-step with todays tendency towards video-oriented, bandwidth-intensive Internet-and cloud-bound data flows.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Incorporating the Internet into the enterprise network reduces costs and lets companies connect resources anywhere, but security is paramount. Latency sensitive applications, such as voice, can beprioritized overother applications, such as email. This allows for maximum efficiency of packet processing.

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CATO Networks

MAY 10, 2022

Nearly all organizations use at least some cloud services, even if this is simply cloud-based email and data storage (G-Suite, Microsoft 365, etc.). It also creates challenges for IT personnel, who need to deploy and maintain complex and inflexible VPN-based corporate WANs.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

For example, the trombone effect (the inefficient backhauling of cloud bound traffic through a specific network endpoint) often meant MPLS connectivity to cloud assets was worse than standard Internet connections. As a result, businesses turned to SD-WAN and Internet-based VPN solutions as an alternative. The solution?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

For all of its talk, SASE as understood by much of the industry, will not completely replace a global MPLS network; the Internet is simply too unpredictable for that. And the public Internet is far too unpredictable, too inefficient to support the global enterprise. Just check out what our customers say if you want first-hand proof.)

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We were supposed to be connected to the Internet at all times and this just wasnt the case, laments Dell. We needed connectivity to our OEMs, and our vendor could not get a simple VPN tunnel from the cloud firewalls to our customer. I’d have to go out to third parties for Internet filtering.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 4, 2025

Understanding the OSI model and routing protocols is crucial; because routing is the backbone of internet connectivity. It’s vital to understand (1) IPsec and VPN technologies thoroughlythese are often covered (in) firewall training. However, this knowledge is essential for anyone pursuing a career in IT.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

This way I was able to send him an email to hold off on movie time during company time. Another factor is the Internets erraticness and, as such, the inability to leave a costly MPLS service. Now we can use a socket, a VPN tunnel, or the mobile client, depending on location and user requirements.

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