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This is Why the Internet is Broken: a Technical Perspective

CATO Networks

Anyone with hands-on experience setting up long-haul VPNs over the Internet knows its not a pleasant exercise. It lies at the core of how the Internet was built, its protocols, and how service providers implemented their routing layer. There isnt going to be a shiny new router that would magically solve it all.

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Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next

CATO Networks

These were largely untouched by the cloud and dominated by appliance-based solutions (routers, firewalls, etc.). Customers were looking to move away from their MPLS networks and the backhauling of Internet traffic to a secure internet gateway at the datacenter. Stay tuned for the next chapter of the Cato story. The post Cato.

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Why Carrier IP Peering is a Major Issue for Real-Time Traffic

CATO Networks

The core of the Internet is based on a plethora of peering agreements between the various carriers that transport IP traffic. These peering relationships are complex both financially and operationally. For example, a new release of software for routers in Carrier A has an issue with the router software in Carrier B.

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Beyond the Thin Branch: Move Network Functions to Cloud, Says Leading Analyst

CATO Networks

Retailers, financial services firms, and other kinds of companies want to become more agile in their branch strategies: be able to light up, move, and shut down branches quickly and easily. One sticking point has always been the branch network stack: deploying, configuring, managing, and retrieving the router, firewall, WAN optimizer, etc.,

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Kentik Takes a Leap Forward in DDoS Defense

Kentik

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been a continuous threat since the advent of the commercial Internet. Today, they are becoming increasingly prevalent and cause major financial damage to all types of organizations. It’s now much easier to propagate filters to all edge routers in large networks. Action Type.

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News in Networking: Advanced Analytics for an Oil Company & HCI for an NFL Team

Kentik

According to SDxCentral, the football team’s IT team “deployed Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software for its mission-critical applications, including Microsoft SQL Server databases, financial reporting software, and an internally-developed player scouting application.”. Carnegie Mellon is home to a $27.5M

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Eye-Opening Results from Forrester’s Cato SASE Total Economic Impact Report

CATO Networks

We decided it was time to quantify Cato SASEs real-world financial benefit with a recognized, well-structured methodology, so we commissioned a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study with the consulting arm of the leading analyst firm Forrester. Adding new sites was a complex time-consuming process. The global company is headquartered in the U.S.

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