Kentik

MARCH 9, 2023

For cloud network specialists, the landscape for their observability efforts includes a mix of physical and virtual networking devices. These devices generate signals (by design or through instrumentation) that provide critical information to those responsible for managing network health. What is network telemetry?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

WAN optimization has been with us for a long time. Born alongside the expensive MPLS data service, WAN optimization appliances allowed organizations to squeeze more bandwidth out of thin pipes through compression and deduplication, as well as prioritizing traffic of loss-sensitive applications such as remote desktops.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The WAN landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by demands of cloud, mobility, and globalization. However, the rise of SaaS applications, hybrid work, and global operations has created new challenges for MPLS-based networks, as their once-reliable architecture now fails to meet the demands of modern, cloud-centric environments.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

Happy To Announce the Birth of a New Technology – SD-WAN It wasnt that long ago that we oohed and ahhed over the brand-new technology called SD-WAN. The new darling of the networking industry would free us from the shackles of legacy MPLS services. SD-WAN: The Toddler Years When SD-WAN was born, there was much to love.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

As critical business applications migrate to the cloud, and the mobile workforce continues to grow, networking and security solutions need to evolve in order to meet the changing business needs. 1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries? 1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries?

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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. Now the spotlight is shifting to the next evolution of networking: the secure access service edge (SASE).

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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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Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

When more of the workforce shifts to working remotely, it puts new and different strains on the infrastructure across different parts of the network, especially where VPN gateways connect to the network edge. This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN).

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

The networking industry loves a good buzzword as much as any other IT sector. Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) certainly fits that billing. The term has been around for at least a decade has come back in vogue to describe networking purchased on a subscription basis. Gartner identifies the specific attributes of a cloud service.

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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. Maintaining security on a network with hundreds of locations is a challenge, and a security breach could mean lost revenue and compromised client or intellectual data.

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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. The award is given to companies that demonstrate the innovation, vision, and execution to deliver software-based networking tools to support different and unique communities of interest.

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Network Engineering

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

and everything else on this network From Site A, I can only ping 10.0.3.1. SITE B Secondly, I'm going to be connecting up a VOIP/SIP network onto this router for Site B. network? Need help here Site B TZ105 x0 Lan 192.168.162.1 X2 LAN 10.0.3.1 Site A TZ300 X0 LAN 10.0.1.1 From Site B I can ping 10.0.1.1

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What is the ROI on SD-WAN projects? Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. But the actual SD-WAN ROI is a mix of hard and soft savi n gs from increasing overall network capacity and availability to a reduc ed operational load of managing and securing the network.

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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

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

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. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In global markets, finding a way to achieve a safe, reliable network connection has become critical for any business looking to stay relevant, competitive, and secure. MPLS networks: pros and cons MPLS is the defacto choice for most enterprises, and for a good reason. Improved performance of all WAN apps.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 27, 2022

However, the migration of other pillars of IT infrastructure, such as networking and security, to the cloud is a newer trend. 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).

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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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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

On top of the critical baseline of understanding what the demands and activities are on your networks, understanding the performance of the traffic flowing across your infrastructure is critical to delivering a great digital experience. Noisy results due to a lack of understanding of what the network does or is doing. What’s needed?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

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. As the company grew, Alewijnse found MPLS connectivity to be increasingly unable meet its business requirements.

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Kentik

JUNE 27, 2023

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

The world of networking has a language of its own which is continually evolving as new technologies emerge, innovative ways of delivering network services are deployed, and global connectivity becomes increasingly essential. See also WAN Latency. Network Throughput the rate of successful message delivery.

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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. This helps deliver predictable network performance. What is a communication hub?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

He has more than 20 years of experience in network security and information management, and specializes in enterprise infrastructure, security and project management. Challenge The WAN for J.s This scenario created an unacceptable risk to the companys operations due to the introduction of a new, unmanaged, network security element.

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Network Engineering

JANUARY 30, 2025

I'm a beginner to networking and as part of some assignments I have a setup of virtual machines that looks like this: In words, I have two pfsense machines, one on the "right" that is connected to NAT on the WAN interface, my Kali machine on the LAN, the interface having the ip 192.168.53.1 24 network as its target.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

According to a recent forecast , the global NaaS (Network as a Service) market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 38.3% NaaS is simply the delivery of virtualized network infrastructure and services following the standard cloud subscription business model popularized by SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. from 2018 to 2023.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When I read that less than 20% of IT professionals indicated their organizations can properly monitor public cloud infrastructure, it reminded me of the reoccurring network visibility conversations I have with network managers from around the globe. But what exactly makes cloud-based SD-WAN different?

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Some of the main contributors to these challenges include: Evolving Networks: Corporate networks have grown and evolved rapidly in recent years with the adoption of cloud computing, remote work, and Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices.

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Packet Pushers

MAY 12, 2021

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast explores essential networking capabilities in Azure, including Virtual WAN, VPN gateways, availability zones, SSL termination options, connecting premises and branch offices to the cloud, and more. Our guest is Pierre Roman, Sr Cloud Ops Advocate at Microsoft. This is not a sponsored episode.

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Kentik

MARCH 7, 2021

When I onboarded here at Kentik, they said we had a cool new product coming out to help uncover network-related latency. Was it network or application or OS related? Kentik Synthetics was built from lots of feedback from our network-savvy community, and it has proven useful for these network-specialist teams.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Forbes recent cybersecurity predictions for 2020 cited an old quote from Cato Networks co-founder Shlomo Kramer. Almost 15 years later, the comparison applies perfectly to the state of network security. So, after all the running weve done in the 2010s, where is network security headed in 2020?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

And perhaps nowhere in his statement holds more true than in the world of network technologies. Understanding Your Companys Needs In the complex world of network technologies, how can you maximize the value of your buy? In fact, according to IDC , SD-WAN is entering a period of rapid adoption.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 9, 2019

Standard Insurance needed an enterprise network optimized for the hybrid cloud and with strong protection for Internet-borne threats. The post Standard Insurance Transforms WAN with Cato Cloud to Win ICMG Award For Best IT Infrastructure Architecture appeared first on Cato Networks.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

More connection density -- 1 million connected mobile devices in less than half of a square mile as compared to around 2K with 4G cellular networks. With the promise of greater performance, network service providers are actively stepping up their testing and trials. Network Monitoring Needs. 5G and SDN Capabilities Intersect.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Edge computing and the distributed cloud both cracked Gartners Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020 , reminding me of a recent discussion on the challenges enterprises face when securing the modern WAN. Traditional firewall security simply cant keep up with the challenges created by these new network paradigms. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

The sheer magnitude of these numbers provides a sobering perspective and helps quantify the threats facing enterprise networks. As the WAN is the ingress and egress point of corporate networks, securing it is vital to mitigating risk and improving security posture. SD-WAN appliances are not security appliances.

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