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How Alewijnse used SD-WAN Connectivity as an MPLS Alternative: A In-depth Profile

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As the company grew, Alewijnse found MPLS connectivity to be increasingly unable meet its business requirements. The Dutch engineering company had built a global wide area network (WAN) out of MPLS and Internet services connecting 17 locations 14 in Europe and 3 in the Asia Pacific with about 800 mobile and field employees.

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Networking Glossary: Top 16 Networking Terms Everyone Should Know

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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. MPLS (Multiprotocol Logical Switching) a technology for moving traffic between locations.

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TMC, Layer123 Recognize Cato for SD-WAN Leadership

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Congratulations to Cato Networks for receiving a 2017 INTERNET TELEPHONY SD-WAN Excellence Award, said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. Cato Cloud has demonstrated true innovation and is leading the way for Software Defined Wide Area Network. I look forward to continued excellence from Cato Networks in 2017 and beyond.

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Inside Cato’s Advanced Security Services

CATO Networks

Network Security Appliances Limit Traditional SD-WAN SD-WAN became popular by solving the challenges of adapting legacy wide area networks (WANs) to the modern enterprise. The MPLS architectures of most enterprise WANs adds far too much latency to Internet- and cloud-destined traffic.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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How Secure is Your SD-WAN?

CATO Networks

Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues.

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The Future of the Firewall is in the Cloud 

CATO Networks

Jay made the right bet building his business around the Check Point Network Firewall and used this success and his entrepreneurial spirit to launch Zscaler. Zscaler offered a secure web gateway (SWG) as a service. Lastly, ZTNA used the same approach to access private apps in datacenters. The idea behind Cato is simple.