NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

In this blog, we will explore what static routes are, how they differ from dynamic routes, and how to configure them on routers like Cisco devices. This characteristic makes them efficient for routers with limited processing capabilities. NOTE : Join our Network Specialist Master’s Program today!

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If mobile VPN seems a persistent pain in the-you-know-where, youre not alone. During the webinar, we asked participants about their mobile VPN challenges. Thats because SD-WAN appliances were designed to replace routers, WAN optimizers and the rest of the networking stack needed for site-to-site connectivity not mobile connectivity.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The spread of massive ransomware outbreaks, such as NotPetya , made firewalling particularly important. Pet Lovers had already connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). All security policy changes had to be implemented by the local service provider running the firewalls.

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

Be it power supplies, servers, routers, load balancers, proxies, or any other physical and virtual network components, the horizontal scaling that redundancy provides is the ultimate safety net in the presence of failure or atypical traffic demands.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 5, 2020

All Cisco products running IOS were impacted, including IOS XR Software, NX-OS Software, and RV160 VPN Router. More specifically, Cisco advisory notes that these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload or stop forwarding traffic through the firewall.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 21, 2019

Its expensive and time-consuming for an engineer to visit branch locations around the globe to install firewalls and routers. Conceptually, putting a WAN optimizer or a router on some sort of white box server sounds great. Administrators need to worry about firewall rule sets, configuration updates, and software updates.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2021

Buy more VPN servers? And 90 percent of the capabilities of routers, firewalls, and now, SD-WAN are common across vendors. Add a new security solution new type of firewall, a SWG, or IPS and you have yet another product to manage and maintain. But with COVID-19, users transitioned to work at home, not in the office.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

They encrypt traffic, like any other VPN, but lack the advanced security services necessary for defending against advanced persistent threats, malware penetration, and more. Depending on the SD-WAN, cost savings, or more specifically cost avoidance, comes from not having to replace end-of-life routers.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

Operational costs grew as administrators had to manually configure and deploy routers and appliances needed in the branch offices: WAN optimizers for overcoming bandwidth limitations, stacks of security appliances for defending the Internet perimeter, packet capture and analysis appliances for visibility and more. There must be a simpler way.

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Kentik

JULY 6, 2017

But the reality is that within most providers both MPLS VPN services and public Internet services ride on the same shared network infrastructure. This can be fairly easily solved with a firewall or SD-WAN appliance that creates IPSec tunnels between the sites. Carrier MPLS services are really expensive bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

Their MPLS configuration also required a stack of appliances firewalls, routers, and WAN optimization at each site that added costs and complexity. They had IPsec VPN from each store to the datacenter. Fisher & Co , a global manufacturing firm, was running an MPLS network that was costing them $27,000 per month.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. Cato Networks operates its own security network as a service (NaaS) providing a range of security services including SWG, FWaaS, VPN, and MDR from its own cloud-based network, writes Futuriom in its Cloud Secure Edge and SASE Trends Report.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2017

Short-term connections can be set up with 4G/LTE and, depending on the service, mobile users can be connected with VPN clients. Bottom Line Conventional enterprise wide area networks are a hodge podges of routers, load balancers, firewalls, next generation firewalls (NGFW), anti-virus and more.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 10, 2022

Lots of savings also came from retired systems, including the traditional edge router, perimeter next-generation firewall appliances, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and SD-WAN. And then there were benefits from Catos remote access flexibility.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The use of Internet and zero-touch provisioning, where the SD-WAN routers configure themselves upon connecting the network, reduce the time and complexity of connecting a new site. They connect to enterprises resources through a virtual private network (VPN), part of a network security solution.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2020

By contrast, integrating security and networking solutions, enterprises have to deploy and install separate solutions, such as SD-WAN and firewall appliances. And a fourth interface will need to be consulted to be sure a misconfigured firewall rule isnt blocking access for some users. Convergence changes the IT operations paradigm.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

It is possible to achieve to similar capabilities across MPLS by combining Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), Cisco Performance Routing (PfR), and real-time quality measurements. Adding new applications to the WAN, for example, may force updates to router configs. However, those measures add complexity to the configuration.

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The Network DNA

JANUARY 22, 2025

Troubleshooting an IPsec VPN issue on a Palo Alto Networks firewall in 9 steps Step 1# Verify VPN Configuration Check the IPsec Tunnel Settings: Ensure that both sides of the tunnel (Palo Alto firewall and the remote peer) have matching configurations: IKE Version: Verify if IKEv1 or IKEv2 is being used and ensure both ends match.

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Kentik

MAY 17, 2021

And the cloud vendors’ management interfaces don’t make it easy to do simple things like figuring out traffic paths or visualizing traffic going over a VPN. Fifteen years ago you couldn’t launch a new business or even run a school without having a server, a switch, and a router sitting in a rack somewhere. But those days are gone.

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