CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

In a recent webinar we conducted at Cato , we asked the audience a poll question: What is the primary driver for your SD-WAN project? We expected other drivers, such as MPLS cost reduction, eliminating bandwidth constraints, or optimizing cloud access, to be at the top of the list. Why is security such a big deal with SD-WAN?

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Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

SD-WAN, one of the most disruptive network technologies of the past few years, has a fast rate of adoption. Enterprises adopting SD-WAN are driven by key factors such as WAN cost savings, application performance improvement, management and operation simplification, and more. Visualize all transport (MPLS, internet, LTE, etc.)

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CATO Networks

APRIL 18, 2019

Whats transitioning like to SD-WAN? The IT manager at a leading automotive components manufacturer recently shared his experience transitioning his company from MPLS to Cato SD-WAN. Before moving to SD-WAN, the company used an MPLS provider that managed everything. Ask Nick Dell.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries? Dedicated network connectivity, known as MPLS, was the preferred approach for connecting remote locations. Dedicated network connectivity, known as MPLS, was the preferred approach for connecting remote locations. This is easier said than done.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

Most enterprise WANs have historically used MPLS, but with the proliferation of cloud resources and mobile users, organizations are realizing the need to facilitate more flexible connectivity. With a hybrid WAN, two different types of network services connect locations.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2017

Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth has experienced the surreal. While at home you might spend $50 for a 50 Mbps Internet link, MPLS services can cost 10 times more for a fraction of the bandwidth. MPLS services arose at a time when threats existed out there on the Internet and Internet traffic was the exception not the norm.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What is the ROI on SD-WAN projects? Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. Let ‘ s look at the various areas of savings SD-WAN can offer and the resulting ROI. Here there’s a balance of considerations.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 15, 2017

Unless you were living under a rock, you probably heard about SD-WAN and its promise to transform enterprise networking as we know it. And, by enterprise networking we mean the use of MPLS at the core of enterprise networks. So, to SD-WAN or to MPLS? The MPLS architecture and its guarantees are now under pressure.

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CATO Networks

MAY 14, 2018

SD-WAN is all the rage in enterprise networking these days. IT teams are excited about the opportunities SD-WAN creates to transform their networks. Below are some of the use cases that can launch your SD-WAN project. Improved WAN resiliency, availability and capacity The network is the core of our digital business.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2018

SD-WAN is one of the hottest technologies in the networking space. Being hot, though, doesn’t mean that SD-WAN has a solid business case to support it. Historically, MPLS was the default WAN choice to maximize uptime and ensure predictable network behavior.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2018

MPLS has been a popular choice for enterprise networks for many years. Despite the relatively high costs, MPLS can deliver SLA-backed performance required for todays applications. SD-WAN is a flexible solution that integrates low-cost Internet transports into a virtual WAN connection.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Like so many areas of IT, networking was revolutionized by SD-WAN , which is now being delivered as a service. But with so many of the same services providers offering who delivered expensive and complex MPLS connectivity now providing SD-WAN connectivity, determining if an SD-WAN service will meet your requirements can be difficult.

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CATO Networks

JULY 2, 2017

Theres been a lot of hype around Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). After all, managed firewall services are certainly not new. But FWaaS is fundamentally different from a managed firewall service. Well analyze those issues in our upcoming The Hype Around Firewall As A Service webinar. Click here to register now.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2017

In a 2016 Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection report , Gartner Analyst Jeremy DHoinne initiated the emerging category of Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). Cato Networks is a pioneer of a new architecture that provides FWaaS as part of a broader WAN transformation platform. For example, when WAN security and connectivity is required.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 9, 2022

SD-WAN networks provide multiple benefits to organizations, especially when compared to MPLS. SD-WAN improves cloud application performance, reduces WAN costs and increases business agility. This blog post lists the top considerations for enterprises that are evaluating and deploying SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

WAN optimization has been with us for a long time. Born alongside the expensive MPLS data service, WAN optimization appliances allowed organizations to squeeze more bandwidth out of thin pipes through compression and deduplication, as well as prioritizing traffic of loss-sensitive applications such as remote desktops.

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CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

MPLS cost reduction is the target of the emerging SD-WAN market that is bustling with solutions looking to take the corporate wide area network to a whole new level. The core value proposition of SD-WAN is the use of a standard, low-cost Internet link to augment an expensive managed, low-latency and guaranteed capacity MPLS link.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Marketers have their brochures; engineers have their test reports, but nothing is more compelling when selecting an SD-WAN than real-life experience. Todays blog takes a look at some challenges real customers faced with their WAN infrastructure, and how Cato Networks was able to help. The proof truly is in the pudding, as they say.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Last month, analyst Jim Metzler and I joined together on a webinar to discuss the current state of the WAN. Jim shared research from his recent study into the current drivers and inhibitors for WAN transformation and the deployment of SD-WAN. Traditional WANs were never designed to handle the dissolving perimeter.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

SD-WAN adoption is seeing rapid growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications. Our 2018 survey included over 700 respondents from IT enterprises that currently run MPLS backbones. Forty-two percent said it reduced the cost of MPLS service.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

WAN Transformation: SD-WAN Cost and ROI Analysis Its no secret that traditional wide area networks (WANs) have to change. But cost reductions, in particular, that are often promised with the successor to traditional WANs, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), is often misleading.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

We recently held a webinar focused on educating network professionals about Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). This approach is mostly chosen by companies that dont want to compromise on security and also need WAN access. Using an MPLS network and routing the traffic over a reliable network.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

The widespread adoption of Software-Defined Wide-Area-Network ( SD-WAN ) in recent years has caused many to wonder whether WAN optimization is still necessary. More specifically, t he rise of WAN optimization began around 2004 and addressed the limitations of the limited capacity of costly MPLS and leased line connections.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

MPLS networks have been the standard configuration for enterprise networks for years, providing predictability and availability. However dependable, MPLS comes with its own set of challenges, such as expensive connectivity and long deployment times. Simple Deployment Deploying a new site with SD-WAN should be fast and simple.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

Happy To Announce the Birth of a New Technology – SD-WAN It wasnt that long ago that we oohed and ahhed over the brand-new technology called SD-WAN. The new darling of the networking industry would free us from the shackles of legacy MPLS services. SD-WAN: The Toddler Years When SD-WAN was born, there was much to love.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. Like so many technologies, though, there are the promises of SD-WANs and then there are the realities of SD-WANs. Yes, there are good reasons for MPLS higher costs.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 11, 2016

Backhauling moves the traffic to a datacenter where firewalls are deployed and a secure Internet access is available. The networking team solved this problem with its resources without requiring collaboration with the security team (which managed the data center firewalls that covered ALL internet traffic for the organization).

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CATO Networks

MAY 3, 2021

Cracks are forming at the base of the cloud firewall. The shift to multicloud strategies and the rapid evolution of network-based threats are uncovering weaknesses in cloud firewalls. Instead, many companies are adopting Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) solutions. What is a Cloud Firewall Used For? Enter cloud firewalls.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The market for SD-WAN has been driven in part by its ability to reduce bandwidth costs and improve the performance of cloud access. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. This amicable live-and-let-live separation falls apart with todays SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

As critical applications migrate into Microsoft Azure, enterprises are challenged with building a WAN that can deliver the necessary cloud performance without dramatically increasing costs and complexity. Theres been no good approach to building an Azure SD-WAN until now. Nor does edge SD-WAN help. Lets see how.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The WAN is evolving after years of stagnation, and SD-WAN is all the rage. What is the promise driving SD-WAN? In short, SD-WAN aims to remove the constraints of legacy connectivity technologies, namely MPLS and the unmanaged public Internet , ushering a new age of flexible, resilient and secure networks.

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CATO Networks

JULY 13, 2016

In new research published by Gartner on July 6th, Analyst Jeremy DHoinne introduced a new technology segment: Firewall-as-a-Service ( FWaaS ). As the name suggests, the segment is focused on the migration of on-premise firewalls to the Cloud.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

Since the beginning of networks, the lynchpin of network security has been the firewall. The first network firewalls appeared in the late 1980s, and gained almost universal acceptance by the early 1990s. So what is a Firewall as a Service and why do you need it? FWaaS is a new type of a Next Generation Firewall.

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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

MARCH 27, 2019

Our research also shows, though,that many enterprises experience an increase in WAN costs to support connectivity to the cloud. Approximately 38% of companies benchmarked by Nemertes Research in 2018 saw their WAN costs rise as a result of their adoption of UCaaS, with a mean increase in spend of 23.5%.

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CATO Networks

JULY 15, 2020

Lets analyze SD-WANs completeness according to this definition. SD-WAN delivers various benefits compared to legacy WANs, mainly offering enterprises cost optimization, agility, and simplicity. Dynamic load sharing of traffic across multiple WAN connections, based on corporate defined policies. So, Whats Missing?

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

We, at Cato Networks, are excited to sponsor the 2017 Guide to WAN Architecture & Design. The wide area network (WAN) is a critical and fundamental resource for any business. As we will discuss in this guide, the WAN is evolving, so the architecture must evolve, as well.

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