CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

AdRolls Global Director of IT Adrian Dunne faced several challenges when attempting to scale the companys Internet-based VPNs. Network performance, security, and redundancy all became major issues as AdRoll grew, prompting Dunne to search for a VPN alternative. So, what makes SD-WAN such an attractive VPN replacement?

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Nick Dell is an IT manager who recently led a network transformation initiative at his company, moving from MPLS to SD-WAN. Dell shared why he made that transition and the lessons he learned along the way in the webinar SD-WAN Confessions: How I migrated from MPLS to SD-WAN. Issues arose about a year into the MPLS contract.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Paysafe decided to replace its mix of MPLS and Internet-based VPN with Cato Cloud to create a single converged network. For a fraction of the price, the Cato Cloud solution improved in performance compared to the Internet VPNs and is on par with MPLS. We operate faster because of Cato.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2018

MPLS has been a popular choice for enterprise networks for many years. Despite the relatively high costs, MPLS can deliver SLA-backed performance required for todays applications. SD-WAN is a flexible solution that integrates low-cost Internet transports into a virtual WAN connection.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 12, 2020

Most enterprise WANs have historically used MPLS, but with the proliferation of cloud resources and mobile users, organizations are realizing the need to facilitate more flexible connectivity. Usually, one network service is MPLS while the other is typically an Internet connection.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Much has been made about their high costs, long-time to deploy, and poor fit for running Internet and cloud traffic. SD-WAN Cost Savings Early marketing around SD-WAN technology pointed to the 90 percent cost difference between MPLS and Internet bandwidth costs. All of which increases last-mile costs.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

To securely connect users at any company location to business applications, or to secure traffic over the internet, we could either connect remote sites with an appliance on the perimeter site, or backhaul all the traffic to a datacenter. Backhaul traffic through the company datacenter and exit to the internet from a central location.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

However, keeping WAN latency in check while using traditional solutions, like MPLS or VPN, with cloud services has become impractical. On the surface, MPLS seems to solve this problem. It eliminates the public Internet from the equation and provides a low-latency backbone. Cloud and mobile is now the norm.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

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. WAN optimization has been with us for a long time.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture offering optimized traffic routing over multiple different media (broadband, MPLS, 5G/LTE, etc.). By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services.

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The Network DNA

MAY 28, 2024

Cisco SDWAN Control Connections Let's take an example , Lets us suppose we have a requirement which says my TLOC color MPLS create a tunnel with other sites MPLS interfaces but we don't want my MPLS create a control connection with the sdwan controllers. This has been asked many times. x Free Tools.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The Internet was the obvious choice. The company already had plenty of experience running IPsec virtual private networks (VPNs) across the Internet. About 90 mobile users were configured with VPN clients to access those firewall appliances; There were 300 users in total accessing the companys network. It was about 1.5

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2018

The network perimeter has dissolved with IaaS, SaaS, and mobile users breaking that barrier and shifting more traffic to the Internet. MPLS was not designed for this new reality. They connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). The provider offered only a 1.5

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CATO Networks

APRIL 10, 2018

Reduce latency between global locations While most webinar respondents (53 percent) identify MPLS costs as a major challenge, eliminating MPLS completely often remains impossible for SD-WAN solutions, particularly in the case of global networks. The basic challenge of global Internet connectivity is the inability to control IP routing.

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Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

Discovering what applications are running between sites, the internet, and to the data center. Visualize all transport (MPLS, internet, LTE, etc.) Viptela: VPN Identifier, and Silver Peak: Application, Business Intent Overlay). MPLS, internet, etc.) Best practices include: Baselining traffic bandwidths.

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CATO Networks

MAY 21, 2018

Todays business lives and depends on the Internet. More and more companies rely on the Internet for voice and video. The public Internet, though, is a challenging environment to deliver business-quality real-time services. The public Internet reorganizes to solve issues without regard for the impact on applications.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Middle-Mile Network Optimization Techniques: Reducing Latency In the past, MPLS provided enterprises with low-latency, albeit expensive, connectivity between sites. WAN optimization appliances emerged to solve that problem, providing the means to extract the maximum usage out of available MPLS capacity.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Luckily, SD-WAN can be configured to prioritize business-critical traffic and real-time services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and then effectively steer it over the most efficient route. Performance MPLS was the top dog in enterprise WAN before cloud-computing and mobile smart devices exploded in popularity.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 14, 2019

MPLS circuits can take weeks even months to provision depending on location. All too often, IT directors have told me they need to explain why MPLS circuit delivery is a holdup for branch office going live. VPN has proven to be a popular solution for site-to-site connectivity. the trombone effect ). the trombone effect ).

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection. Internet Backhaul moving large amounts of data between major data aggregation points. Although its expensive, organizations often use MPLS to backhaul branch traffic to their corporate data centers to secure traffic and enforce policies.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 4, 2018

Normally, such an objective would be mission impossible for a network built on MPLS and firewall appliances. The existing locations had firewall appliances connected by 100 Mbits/s, layer-2, MPLS connections. The company spent $10,000 per month for the 100 Mbits/s MPLS service and connections were still choking out, McNeill says.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Pet Lovers had already connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). Routers at every store directed point-of-sale (POS) traffic across the IPsec VPN to firewalls in the company’s Singapore datacenter housing its POS servers.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It was designed for permanent, static locations connected via expensive, MPLS links. Many organizations are looking to the Internet as a way to address the limitations of their traditional WANs. They connect to enterprises resources through a virtual private network (VPN), part of a network security solution.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 15, 2023

Its a massive SASE deployment spanning 200+ locations and 25,000 remote users worldwide, replacing a combination of MPLS services, VPN services, SD-WAN devices, remote access VPNs , and security appliances. Carlsberg will be replacing MPLS, VPN, and SD-WAN services with Cato SASE Cloud and Catos global private backbone.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

Our 2018 survey included over 700 respondents from IT enterprises that currently run MPLS backbones. 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. Forty-two percent said it reduced the cost of MPLS service.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Yet, the traditional network architecture (MPLS connectivity, VPN servers, etc.) When a branch office is down, users work from remote, connecting back via the Internet to the VPN in the data center. wasnt built with cloud services and remote users in mind. The same is true for cloud connections.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

As mobile users connect directly to the internet through unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and offices access cloud resources via direct internet access, the attack surface grows. When the portals sit near or within the path to the Internet destinations, the performance impact of such an architecture is usually nominal.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Security between locations, though, was not an issue provided the WAN was based, as most were, on a private MPLS service. With its ability to separate customer traffic, MPLS services give enterprise IT professionals enough confidence to send data unencrypted between locations. This requires a shift in our security models.

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Kentik

JULY 6, 2017

Protecting Availability for Internet-based WAN Sites. Carrier MPLS services are really expensive bandwidth. But the reality is that within most providers both MPLS VPN services and public Internet services ride on the same shared network infrastructure. SD-WAN is one of 2017’s hottest networking technologies.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

Rising MPLS Bandwidth Costs MPLS is expensive and eats up a large portion of IT spend. But, ensuring performance, security and user experience for WFA users with traditional remote-access VPN is mission impossible for IT teams. Stage 1 businesses are those that spend a significant, yet manageable, amount of their budget on MPLS.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Organizations are vulnerable, and IT teams are frustrated and overwhelmed dealing with: Appliance sprawl Compromised user experience Expensive MPLS networks with limited bandwidth High-latency VPN access for mobile users Multi-policy management Cato customer Leslie W.

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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. Only by converging SASE with NaaS can companies eliminate costly, legacy MPLS services. But SASE alone cant replace MPLS.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

Improve Middle Mile Performance When MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) was the de facto WAN connectivity standard, enterprises often had a reliable, albeit expensive and inflexible, middle mile connection they could count on for enterprise-grade connectivity. The solution? This is exactly what Cato Cloud was purpose-built to do.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2017

The Cato Cloud replaces your secure web gateways, MPLS backbones, SD-WAN and WAN optimization appliances, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs), and on-premises firewalls, UTM, and VPN appliances.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The infrastructure needed to support these remote users, virtual private network (VPN) solutions, was built for the brave few and not for the masses. During the first wave of COVID-19, IT had to throw money and hardware at the problem, stacking up legacy VPN servers all over the world to catch up with the demand.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional VPN solutions enable connectivity for mobile and remote employees but do little to enable the same visibility and control possible on-premises. It is easy for an enterprise to fall into a false sense of security because they can view all the traffic traversing MPLS links.

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