CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

Regardless, the WAN became complex, costly and the epitome of lack of agility. 2000s 2010s: Moving to Software-Defined WAN Next came the attempt to fill the gaps created by the limitations of MPLS and the public Internet with SD-WAN. Maintaining such a setup was becoming increasingly difficult. This is easier said than done.

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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. NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. But SASE alone cant replace 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

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

JUNE 23, 2019

The infamous malware that crippled global DNS provider Dyn, French Web host OVH and security journalist Brain Krebs Web site with botnets of infected home routers, baby monitors and other IoT devices is now infecting enterprise network equipment, according to a recent Palo Alto Networks blog and Network Computing article.

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Network Engineering

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I assume, for peer IP we use, is the wan interface of the Cisco ASA and not the gateway of the ISP correct? Also, all routes should go to the same IP of the wan interface correct? Right now, all traffic has a static rule to send all traffic to the ISP gateway on the router at the edge going to the hand off.

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Network Engineering

AUGUST 19, 2020

The problem is that when ESXi is down it takes down all the network with it, so I have to boot up another router to log in to it. WAN > OPNsense (in ESXi)> switch (C3560G) OPNsense is DHCP server Thing is that i would like the switch to deal with the DHCP, to avoid being naked when ESXi needs maintenance. default-router 10.0.0.1

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

Traffic processing engines are at the core of many networking and security products including routers, SD-WAN devices, next generation firewalls, secure web gateways, IPS , CASB/DLP, and ZTNA products. The answer is: core capabilities should be built once and be leveraged to address multiple functional requirements.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

These were largely untouched by the cloud and dominated by appliance-based solutions (routers, firewalls, etc.). Customers were looking to move away from their MPLS networks and the backhauling of Internet traffic to a secure internet gateway at the datacenter.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At the core of NFV is the notion that network functions, such as SD-WAN , firewalling and secure web access, can be delivered as virtual appliances and run either on premises (vCPE) or at the carrier core data centers (hosted). Some VNFs, such as routers and SD-WAN, consume relatively few resources.

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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. Read SD-WAN Experts blog for more information.) The first such service is the Cato Cloud.

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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

APRIL 23, 2019

These may be any network function, such as SD-WAN, firewalls, IPS/IDS, secure web gateways and routers. By hosting the services that have traditionally been appliances as Network Cloud Functions (NCFs) to form a cloud-native software stack. Unlike VNFs, NCFs are natively built for cloud delivery.

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Kentik

APRIL 16, 2023

DevOps and NetOps need to work together Collaboration is often a two-way street. While DevOps may indeed be “blind to the network,” achieving visibility will involve a lot of work and contribution from NetOps.

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Kentik

JULY 28, 2021

Bad hardware (the switch or router port). Overwhelmed router. Congestion in the form of high-connection utilization or an overworked router in the path is another common source of trouble. TCP traceroute : A TCP trace reaches out to every router in the path to a target destination. Miss-matched duplexing (full vs. half).

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Kentik

MAY 17, 2021

Internal communications routed over internet gateways and driving up costs. Abandoned gateways and subnets configured with overlapping IP space. Fifteen years ago you couldn’t launch a new business or even run a school without having a server, a switch, and a router sitting in a rack somewhere. But those days are gone.

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