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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

CATO Networks

The PoP is just a connection point a gateway, of sorts where the external world (i.e., By that I mean, traffic goes to the SASE solution providers PoPs to be forwarded to SaaS or IaaS applications or the Internet. Optimized Cloud Provider (IaaS) Access , in which Cato places PoPs on the AWS and Azure infrastructure.

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How To Best Design Your WAN for Accessing AWS, Azure, and the Cloud

CATO Networks

Cato can establish an IPsec tunnel from customers existing equipment such as a firewall in a datacenter or branch location. For cloud data centers, the Cato PoPs co-locate data centers directly connected to the Internet exchange points as the leading IaaS providers such as AWS and Azure.

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New Insight Into SASE from the Recent GartnerĀ® Report on Impact Radar: Communications

CATO Networks

SASE is evolving from five contributing security and network segments: software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), firewall, SWG, CASB and ZTNA. SASE supports branch office, remote worker and on-premises general internet security use cases. Because of the availability of these two factors, or use cases, buyer adoption is picking up.

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The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as Described in Gartnerā€™s Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2019

CATO Networks

Secure Access Service Edge “ Analysis By: Joe Skorupa; Neil MacDonald Definition: The secure access service edge (SASE) are emerging converged offerings combining WAN capabilities with network security functions (such as secure web gateway, CASB and SDP) to support the needs of digital enterprises.

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What You Donā€™t Need from an SD-WAN Vendor

CATO Networks

Most SD-WAN vendors provide basic security features such as encryption, layer 2 access control, and possibly some basic firewall functionality. By using service insertion or service chaining, separate security services such as firewalls and IPS are inserted into the data flow. Generally around 3-5 is enough.

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Is SD-WAN Really Dead?

CATO Networks

Next-generation firewall (NGFW), Intrusion Preven tion Systems (IPS), Secure Web Gateway (SWG) , anti-malware all necessary components for protecting the enterprise and none of which are provided by SD-WAN. Native cloud connectivity within the PoPs connects IaaS and SaaS resources.

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Does Your Backbone Have Your Back?

CATO Networks

Googles recent announcement of the GCP Network Connectivity Center (NCC) joins other similar services such as Amazons AWS Transit Gateway and Microsofts Azure Virtual WAN. AWS Transit Gateway has 16 PoPs1, Azure virtual WAN has 392 and GCP NCC has 103. Private backbone services are all the rage these days. Cato SASE Cloud.

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