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The Promise and Peril of SD-WANs

CATO Networks

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth for their business and Internet DSL for their home has endured the surreal experience of paying 3 times or even 10 times more per megabit for MPLS bandwidth.

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How SD-WANs Can Become Next Generation WAN Architectures

CATO Networks

While SD-WANs are a valuable first step towards evolving the wide area network , they only address a small part of the dissolved enterprise perimeter challenge. Rather than multiple policies governing each technology, organizations can create a single policy integrating the four IT disciplines.

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The Carrier Cloud Needs a New Fabric, Not a Patched Cloth

CATO Networks

Over the past two decades, carriers have built massive global networking platforms that are faithfully serving many enterprises. MPLS-based services are under pressure from emerging Internet-based solutions. It allows their customers to boost the capacity, manageability and agility of MPLS by adding Internet-links into a hybrid WAN.

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How to Choose the Most Suitable Network Technology for Your Company

CATO Networks

If this applies to you, keep in mind that network technologies can be set up to provide compliance reporting, to prove to governing bodies that the business data that flows over the network meets the necessary regulations. Software-defined wide area network is a new way to manage and optimize enterprise networks.

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Security + Network As a Service: the Better SD-WAN

CATO Networks

Weve been discussing the impact the dissolving perimeter has had on networking and IT. Rather than IT playing this kind of shell game on itself, IT should evaluate WAN architectures holistically and look at the quality of experience, availability, security, cost, agility, manageability, and extensibility of the network.

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Achieving NIS2 Compliance: Essential Steps for Companies 

CATO Networks

Establish a Security Governance Framework Develop a robust security governance framework that outlines the roles, responsibilities, and processes necessary to achieve and maintain NIS2 compliance. Understanding the specific risks your organization faces will help you design effective security measures.

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Common Ground for CIOs and CISOs

Kentik

At the intersection of CIO and CISO issues and concerns is the network and its underlying infrastructure. From the CIO perspective, network issues related to bandwidth constraints, latency, congestion, and packet loss are all tightly interconnected.