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

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 9, 2017

TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Cato Cloud a 2017 Internet Telephony SD-WAN Excellence Award. Congratulations to Cato Networks for receiving a 2017 INTERNET TELEPHONY SD-WAN Excellence Award, said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. The post TMC, Layer123 Recognize Cato for SD-WAN Leadership appeared first on Cato Networks.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

A recent conversation with a WAN engineer got me thinking about how network optimization techniques have changed over the years. Traditional WAN optimization tools do little to help address these challenges, as theyre simply designed to reduce bandwidth consumption. WAN optimization appliances couldnt fix that trombone problem.

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

For several years now, the network evolution spotlight has been on SD-WAN , and rightfully so. SD-WAN provides big advancements in connecting branch locations into central data centers in a cost-effective manner. However, SD-WAN appliances sit atop the underlying network infrastructure.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Key components include SD-WAN, Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Deploying SD-WAN that is a part of a single-vendor SASE platform, enables future migration of the security infrastructure into the SSE pillar.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2017

MPLS networks: pros and cons MPLS is the defacto choice for most enterprises, and for a good reason. MPLS offers guaranteed availability and optimized application performance, as well as high levels of latency and stability. A typical MPLS network install can take months to order, install, and implement.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

UCaaS traffic must be backhauled across the WAN to Internet access point resulting in inefficient traffic routing for voice and video calls, and potential quality issues related to excessive delay and jitter. Direct Connect Direct connect options extend the enterprise WAN so that the UCaaS provider appears as just another node on the network.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

But whats particularly interesting for anyone moving away from a global MPLS network or otherwise looking at WAN transformation is the impact NaaS will have on evolving the enterprise backbone. Only by converging SASE with NaaS can companies eliminate costly, legacy MPLS services. But SASE alone cant replace MPLS.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2018

IT organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). According to a July 2017 report from market-research firm IDC , SD-WAN adoption is seeing remarkable growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications.

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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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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

As the WAN is the ingress and egress point of corporate networks, securing it is vital to mitigating risk and improving security posture. These fundamental changes in how we do business demand a new approach to WAN security. These fundamental changes in how we do business demand a new approach to WAN security. Lets find out.

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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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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

Fortunately, cloud-native SD-WAN platforms, like Cato Cloud , enable enterprises to leverage Network as a Service to its full potential. Network as a Service: A crash course With NaaS, many WAN complexities can be abstracted away. Coupled with an SD-WAN appliance some may argue that NaaS can go a long way in replacing MPLS.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Enterprises often embark on a SASE journey to address a specific, tactical needlike replacing SD-WAN or enhancing remote access securitybut what begins as a targeted project often leads to profound, far-reaching change across the entire IT landscape. By converging SD-WAN with network security , SASE empowers enterprises to be agile.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

For SD-WAN s, the Internet has been their weakness. The lack of a global, SLA-backed backbone leaves SD-WANs unable to provide the consistent, predictable transport needed by real-time service and business-critical applications. Market forces have been a big factor in impacting MPLS pricing.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

Hybrid Wide-Area Network (Hybrid WAN) a type of wide area network that sends traffic over two or more connection types. For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection. Although its expensive, organizations often use MPLS to backhaul branch traffic to their corporate data centers to secure traffic and enforce policies.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2018

More and more IT managers are interested in converging SD-WAN with network security and for good reason. But as weve noted before, traditional SD-WAN fails to adequately address the security dimension, relying on existing security appliances and solutions. Its an SD-WAN built from the ground up with security in mind.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2017

Network and security appliances are still sold; legacy WANs are still deployed. The Cato Cloud replaces your secure web gateways, MPLS backbones, SD-WAN and WAN optimization appliances, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs), and on-premises firewalls, UTM, and VPN appliances. There is just the network.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2017

Cato Networks is a pioneer of a new architecture that provides FWaaS as part of a broader WAN transformation platform. The Cato Cloud converges WAN Optimization , SD-WAN , a global SLA-backed backbone and network security ( FWaaS ) – into a single cloud service. For example, when WAN security and connectivity is required.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Converged functionalities include SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS), cloud-access security broker (CASB), DLP and secure web gateway (SWG). SASE can connect any network: the internet, MPLS, cellular networks and more. Speed and performance: SASE enables manufacturers to increase bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 2, 2023

This is something that MPLS does not provide because it cannot support the cloud evolution that the manufacturing industry is experiencing. Additionally, global expansion is a major challenge due to the cost and complexity of turning up new sites, especially in locations where MPLS is not easy for carriers to offer and support.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

This allows a comprehensive security policy to be enforced on WAN and Internet traffic, for fixed location and mobile users. For example, if some branch locations are not connected via MPLS , separate firewalls may be required, forcing security administrators to manage separate network security policies.

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CATO Networks

MAY 18, 2021

The companys original WAN operated on a telco bundle from a carrier that provided a global MPLS network and worldwide Internet services to the various sites. Secure Web Gateway (SWG) services in the cloud were used to secure the web traffic. Level 2 sites required one MPLS and one Internet link.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

Rising MPLS Bandwidth Costs MPLS is expensive and eats up a large portion of IT spend. Stage 1 businesses are those that spend a significant, yet manageable, amount of their budget on MPLS. SASE can be adopted gradually and grow incrementally as current MPLS contracts expire.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

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. MPLS also has other challenges like the complexity of deployment and provisioning.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Fortunately for enterprises, cloud-based SD-WAN solves this problem by making secure, monitored, and policy-enforced WAN connectivity possible across the globe, on-prem and in the cloud, without sacrificing performance. But what exactly makes cloud-based SD-WAN different?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

This is one of the reasons that, according to Gartner analyst Joe Skorupa , by 2020, more than half of WAN edge infrastructure refreshes will be based on SD-WAN versus traditional routers. In fact, according to IDC , SD-WAN is entering a period of rapid adoption. And here is where SD-WAN steps in.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

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. SASE vs SD-WAN – Whats Beyond Security | Download eBook What are we trying to solve? Private backbone services are all the rage these days.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Many enterprises are replacing their fixed MPLS wide area networks (WANs) with virtualized software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) to reduce costs. Alongside that shift, 5G offers sufficient capacity and reliability to provide an additional path to support an SD-WAN, providing greater coverage, particularly for remote sites.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But what happens when security teams want to modernize their tools and services but networking teams remain committed to legacy SD-WAN or carrier technologies? SASE vs SD-WAN Whats Beyond Security | Download eBook Why Is SSE Important? When those teams are in lockstep and ready to change, SASE adoption is the logical evolution.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Customers were looking to move away from their MPLS networks and the backhauling of Internet traffic to a secure internet gateway at the datacenter. The new network was built on edge SD-WAN devices, Internet last mile, and secure direct Internet access at the branch.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

The PoP is just a connection point a gateway, of sorts where the external world (i.e., SD-WAN will not do these things for you. Best Effort Isnt Always the Best Way I have talked with numerous enterprises that replaced MPLS circuits with SD-WAN. But you must consider the architecture of this network.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

We were able to nearly double the performance of the Cato Socket, Catos edge SD-WAN device, without requiring any hardware changes or anything at all, for that matter on the customers side. Enterprises with MPLS or third-party SD-WAN infrastructure can now leverage Catos SSE capabilities without changing their underlying networks.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Its also no secret that traditional networks add latency to UCaaS sessions, backhauling all cloud (including UCaaS) traffic to a centralized, secured Internet gateway. Overcome Congestion and Last-Mile Packet Loss Degrading Voice Quality Congestion, particularly in the last-mile, becomes a significant problem for delivering UCaaS over SD-WAN.

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