CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

MPLS cost reduction is the target of the emerging SD-WAN market that is bustling with solutions looking to take the corporate wide area network to a whole new level. MPLS isnt encrypted by default: MPLS relies on the carrier private network for security because the data doesnt flow on the public Internet.

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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. Users increasingly complained about their Internet performance. To getthe full story click here.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2017

Network flow data is quickly emerging as an essential source of data for analyzing network performance, optimizing infrastructure, and detecting malicious traffic. This wasn’t the case just a couple of years ago when EMA issued its Network Management Megatrends 2014 report. Flow data for WAN monitoring.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2018

The patchwork of appliances and network services comprising our wide area networks (WAN) have been with us for so long its easy to overlook their impact on IT. Simplifying the network or security infrastructure was the primary use case for SD-WAN in 2018, drawing half of all respondents (50 percent).

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CATO Networks

JULY 13, 2016

Gartner also calls out two key considerations for evaluating solutions: network latency and security capabilities. Cato Networks is one of the top vendors driving this new and exciting market forward. FWaaS promises simplification and cost reduction by eliminating on-premise appliances.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 31, 2018

Regular readers of this blog know all too well what enterprises of all sizes are recognizing: the inefficiencies of legacy Wide Area Networks (WANs) making it difficult for many IT leaders to meet the needs of todays business. Its not enough to simply go to the cloud and adopt cheap Internet. Its no secret.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2016

The reality is that hardware appliances with embedded software (the most common implementation of networking and security solutions) are too slow to evolve and too expensive to run. Networking equipment was purpose-built using custom hardware to be able to keep up with the increase in traffic speeds. Lets start with the network.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2016

About 10 years ago, a small startup, Palo Alto Networks, innovated the Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). This was a critical innovation at a time where vast amounts of traffic moved to the Internet (using ports 80/443), and the ability to apply controls at the port level, was insufficient. By application, I dont mean salesforce.com.

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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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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The days when physical locations represented the heart of your network are firmly in the rear-view mirror. To achieve this youll need a WAN architecture that delivers: High Availability Low Latency Enterprise-grade security Cost-efficiency In recent years new solutions have emerged to challenge legacy MPLS and internet-based WAN solutions.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Enterprise networking experts often disagree on many things. Dont take our word for it, heres what 9 leading industry experts have to say on the benefits of SD-WAN for enterprise networking: Is SD-WAN the future of networking? Brandon Butler @BButlerNWW Brandon is a senior editor for Network World.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

Work is done in more places and the Internet has become central to how business is conducted. This means that corporate networks must change as well. The answer Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs). SD-WAN brings unparalleled agility and cost savings to networking. How Does SD-WAN Work?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 18, 2017

He brings a unique blend of independent technology insight and business smarts that has helped make his Network World blog Ask the WAN Expert a popular destination for anyone looking to learn about SD-WANs. Can the Internet really replace MPLS? The post SD-WANs for SMEs appeared first on Cato Networks. I hope youll join us.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

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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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have become one of the cornerstones of secure communications over the internet. VPNs have become an established method to ensure privacy, protect data, and are becoming very popular among internet users. However, there has been a lot of confusion around what VPNs can and cannot do.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That means making sure the wide area network (WAN) that connects branch offices, data centers, cloud services and SaaS applications can handle the connectivity needs of digitally empowered global organizations. Software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) can get the job done. Here is why.

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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? As a result, networks need to adapt to the new requirements of the increased use of cloud applications.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Networking is an enterprise IT discipline where being conservative is often the way to go. After all, without the network, todays technology-powered businesses are dead in the water. The network doesnt have to be totally down, though, to disrupt the business. MPLS is a 20 years old enterprise networking technology.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The MPLS Story Global MPLS networks allow for different in-country providers of MPLS services to connect as one network. Service level agreements are a key part of global MPLS networks. The fact is, global MPLS services arent implemented in a way that accommodates the new realities of wide area networking needs.

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CATO Networks

JULY 24, 2023

It identifies two elements that underpin SASE , namely the network access technology ( SD-WAN ) and secure internet access ( Security Service Edge (SSE) ). The East-West WAN traffic visibility gap : SASE converges two separate disciplines: the Wide Area Network and Network Security. Here is why.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Facebook uses Open/R to support its wide-area networks, data center fabric and wireless mesh topologies. Facebook open-sources its Open/R networking development platform (SiliconANGLE). “We Also in on the SD-WAN hype is AT&T.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

We, at Cato Networks, are excited to sponsor the 2017 Guide to WAN Architecture & Design. The wide area network (WAN) is a critical and fundamental resource for any business. Increase WAN security As we noted earlier, traditional WAN architecture backhauled Internet traffic to a central breakout.

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CATO Networks

JULY 24, 2017

Mobility, cloud access, Internet security these and more form the shape of todays business. This webinar will look at a range of issues including: Where SD-WAN can truly help network performance How to best use insertion and service chaining The security issues for any SD-WAN even with traffic being encrypted To sign up now, click here.

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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. An agile, efficient, and ubiquitous security architecture is essential if organizations are to fully transform their networks. Networking and security are fully converged, providing a more scalable, more efficient SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

I read with some surprise the interview with Zscalers CEO, Jay Chaudry, in CRN where he stated that the network firewalls will go the way of the mainframe, that the network is just plumbing and that Zscaler proxy overlay architecture will replace it with its application switchboard. This is my take. Jay has always been a visionary.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 17, 2018

The enterprise needs a network that can adapt, offering availability levels to meet each type of office requirements. MPLS networks have been the backbone of enterprise networks for years. MPLS networks are known and relied upon for high uptime, with a target of five-nines (99.999%) uptime. What are your options?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues.

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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

MARCH 20, 2018

MPLS networks have been the standard configuration for enterprise networks for years, providing predictability and availability. MPLS is much more expensive compared to standard Internet, and can take anywhere from 60-120 days to provision. Simple Deployment Deploying a new site with SD-WAN should be fast and simple.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

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. Networking, security, and mobility technologies are deployed and operated independently. As such, critical information becomes siloed behind disparate tools.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

Service insertion refers to the adding of networking services, such as firewalls or load balancers, into the forwarding path of traffic. SD-WANs bring SDN principles of service insertion to the wide area network. Finally, spanning tree loops and other network issues can disrupt the network.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

The widespread adoption of Software-Defined Wide-Area-Network ( SD-WAN ) in recent years has caused many to wonder whether WAN optimization is still necessary. Bandwidth: Bandwidth limitations are addressed by minimizing the amount of data passed across the network. The technologies are similar.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2018

Weve long touted the benefits of a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) so its encouraging to see that enterprises are increasingly recognizing its value. With the evolution of the cloud, networks directly affect our access to business critical applications, data, social media services, video conferences and more.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

No longer an emerging technology, cloud computing is now used in everything from applications, storage, and networking. SD-WAN is used to connect enterprise networks over large geographic distances more efficiently across any available data transport, such as MPLS, LTE, or broadband.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

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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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. Seamless transition between home and office Today, networking and security infrastructure investments in MPLS, SD-WAN, and NGFW/UTM are focused on the office.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2018

According to a report from Forrester, 90% of Network Managers are looking to evolve their WAN with a software-defined approach. The Case for Taking Networking and Security to The Cloud Hardware-based infrastructures are being increasingly challenged to adequately address cloud migration and a mobile workforce.

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