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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

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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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The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as Described in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2019

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

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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. This need to send traffic directly into the cloud requires the core WAN backbone based on the hubs to become the new corporate LAN.

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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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Are You Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset with a Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?

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Figure 2 : Enterprise DLP Integrated DLP (IDLP) – DLP functionality that is added on top of a pre-existing security product such as a Secure Web Gateway (SWG). Piggybacking on a SWG, for example, will cover only Internet-bound traffic and may not inspect IaaS traffic.

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What You Don’t Need from an SD-WAN Vendor

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Deploying a new site for SD-WAN requires an SD-WAN gateway be deployed on-site. SD-WAN vendors that co-locate PoPs in data centers directly connected to the IXPs of the leading IaaS providers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud can optimize traffic via the shortest and fastest path. Generally around 3-5 is enough.

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

CATO Networks

Build a network of distributed points of presence (POPs) through colocation facilities, service provider POPs or infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to reduce latency and improve performance for network security services. SASE supports branch office, remote worker and on-premises general internet security use cases.

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