CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Traditional hub-and-spoke networking has enterprises backhauling WAN traffic from branches over MPLS circuits to a central site and applying security policies before sending the traffic to the cloud or the public Internet. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Luckily, SD-WAN can be configured to prioritize business-critical traffic and real-time services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and then effectively steer it over the most efficient route. Performance MPLS was the top dog in enterprise WAN before cloud-computing and mobile smart devices exploded in popularity.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2019

In 2014, Gartner analysts wrote a Foundational Report (G00260732, Communication Hubs Improve WAN Performance) providing guidance to customers on deploying communication hubs, or cloud-based network hubs, outside the enterprise data center. Also, companies need the ability to prioritize certain types of traffic across the WAN.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

SECURING YOUR AZURE VIRTUAL NETWORK WITH A NG FIREWALL PART 3: DEPLOYING A NGFW VIRTUAL APPLIANCE Before virtual security appliances were available in the Azure Marketpl ace, securing your Azure environment required the use of NSGs (Network Security Group). FILL OUT THE FORM.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? Heres a list of the key acronyms to help you keep up with the latest in WAN transformation. By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet.

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Kentik

MARCH 7, 2021

Let’s consider the database scenario for now, but this scenario can be applied at any tier component: application, service mesh, API gateway, authentication, Kubernetes, network backbone, WAN, LAN, switch, or firewall, etc.

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Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN). The richest data sources are from the VPN devices or firewalls. One strategy for managing the surge in traffic coming from remote workers is to implement a split-tunneling configuration.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Many companies have spent significant time and resources designing and implementing security architectures around traditional next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) and other security solutions. Corporate WANs must be capable of efficiently and securely routing traffic between an organizations various network segments.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Corporate WAN is Rapidly Changing In the past, the majority of an organizations IT assets were located on-prem. The company managed its own data centers, and employees were primarily connected directly to the corporate LAN. Often, these solutions adapt poorly to securing the modern, distributed corporate WAN.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 14, 2021

This has necessitated a rethink of the WAN architecture. This has led enterprises to adopt SD-WAN technology, which enables them to eschew bringing all traffic back to a central data center and route traffic directly to branches or the cloud, as needed. For most organizations, the cloud is a critical piece of their transformation.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2018

One of the more obvious, yet powerful uses for Kentik Detect is a dashboard that provides a comprehensive overview of network traffic across the entire infrastructure: LAN / WAN, internal data centers and public cloud. With a simple filter change, another panel illustrates traffic flows between WAN locations and public cloud services.

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Kentik

JULY 28, 2021

Firewall configured to drop packets (all ICMP is dropped). Since we are focused on the cloud in this article, we find that SNMP is great for LANs and WANs, but we can’t use it to see inside devices within the cloud. Packet loss can be caused by a wide variety of factors, including: Bad cables (electrostatic interference).

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

He focuses his keen analyst eye on emerging areas of WAN and has recently written about the complexities of network segmentation and how to pick the right technology and approach. Steve Garson ( @WANExperts ) Steve is an internationally recognized expert in SD-WAN. Nolan also shines a light on IOT and LP-WAN.

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