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. But just as were getting used to the toddling SD-WAN, along came yet another even more exciting newborn, the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Thats so yesteryear or is it?

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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. Addressing MPLS Limitations with SD-WAN Capabilities Businesses need a networking solution that aligns with todays dynamic needs. While SD-WAN eliminates limitations of MPLS, not all SD-WAN solutions are created equal.

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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 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. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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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. Streamlining the network security infrastructure and providing secure Internet access from any location were the top 2 reasons for moving to SD-WAN in 2018.

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And its also no secret that as more applications move to the cloud, significant changes are hosted onto the WAN. SD-WAN appliances are ill-suited to address these changes. For example, most appliance-based SD-WAN require enterprises to layer security in themselves. Youd have access from anywhere and security everywhere.

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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 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

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. The post How Alewijnse used SD-WAN Connectivity as an MPLS Alternative: A In-depth Profile appeared first on Cato Networks.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Challenge The WAN for J.s The current WAN architecture could not handle the SAP migration and we needed a solution that was affordable, didnt require a lot of internal resources, and could be operational in two weeks in order to keep the project on track, he says.

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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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Network Engineering

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

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 VPN tunnel set up as VPN SITE TO SITE and is Green From Site A I can ping 10.0.3.1 From Site B I can ping 10.0.1.1 and everything else on this network From Site A, I can only ping 10.0.3.1. network.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 27, 2022

However, a zero trust security strategy is only useful if it can be enforced consistently across an organizations entire corporate WAN without compromising network performance. Zero trust must consistently apply access controls and security policies across the entire corporate WAN.

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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 as its gateway with the 192.168.53.0/24

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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

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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CATO Networks

APRIL 9, 2019

Branch firewall appliances were replaced with Cato Security Services, a tightly integrated suite of cloud-native services built into Cato Cloud that include next-generation firewall (NGFW), secure web gateway (SWG), URL filtering, and malware prevention. To read more about Standard Insurances implementation click here.

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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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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

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Uncontrolled Costs Slow Implementation SD-WAN – Agility is the driving force SD-WAN can augment MPLS connections with public Internet, allowing enterprises to lower WAN costs significantly. By utilizing the power of SD-WAN, businesses can improve agility and bring down costs. Improved performance of all WAN apps.

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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

JULY 31, 2017

Cato SD-WAN is First to Converge Global Networking and Advanced Security Services Cato introduced today a context-aware Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) as part of its Cato Cloud secure SD-WAN service. Cato IPS is the first to be integrated with a global SD-WAN service , bringing context-aware protection to users everywhere.

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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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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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Kentik

MARCH 7, 2021

Let’s consider the database scenario for now, but this scenario can be applied at any tier component: application, service mesh, API gateway, authentication, Kubernetes, network backbone, WAN, LAN, switch, or firewall, etc. Transactions typically taking 20ms on a database can become slower.

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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. Visibility Solutions such as Secure Web Gateways in the Cloud don’t provide visibility to the WAN. Thus, a separate firewall solution is required for the 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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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. 255.255.255.0

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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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Network Engineering

JANUARY 26, 2025

the router's applicable interfaces are: enp3s0 wan interface enp4s0 with static IP 192.168.2.2/24 24 routing table on the router has applicable entries: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 the gateway. the router's applicable interfaces are: enp3s0 wan interface enp4s0 with static IP 192.168.2.2/24

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Kentik

MARCH 9, 2023

With so many network boundaries being navigated (application, service, cloud providers, subnets, SD-WANs , etc.), Your switches, servers, transits, gateways, load balancers, and more are all capturing critical information about their resource utilization and traffic characteristics. What is device telemetry?

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