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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are.

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Service Insertion and Service Chaining Defined

CATO Networks

Service insertion refers to the adding of networking services, such as firewalls or load balancers, into the forwarding path of traffic. SD-WANs bring SDN principles of service insertion to the wide area network. Virtual route forwarding (VRF) is typically enabled with a VRF for one side of the router (Subnet.#1

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Transitioning to SD-WANs: Problems to Avoid

CATO Networks

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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What To Look For in a SD-WAN Vendor

CATO Networks

Security policies for MPLS based networks need to be managed at each site and the various appliances must be continuously updated and upgraded. Many organizations today are choosing to migrate to SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network), because it can eliminate the challenges of MPLS networks.

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SD-WAN and Security: The Architecture is All that Matters

CATO Networks

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. Convergence is the antithesis tobundling of point solutions.

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The Co-Managed SD-WAN: A Managed Infrastructure with Self-Service Capabilities for Agility

CATO Networks

Typically, they have the in-house expertise to manage their existing wide area network and feel comfortable adapting to the new technologies of the SD-WAN. The network and security services are managed by the MSP, and the customer must rely on the support services for adds/moves/changes.

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The Impact of 5G on Enterprise Network Monitoring

Kentik

Other applications set to benefit from this kind of wireless network performance and scalability include enhanced mobile broadband, enterprise communications, autonomous vehicles, telemedicine, augmented reality (AR), connected homes, and industrial automation. 5G and SDN Capabilities Intersect.

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