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

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. MPLS also doesnt address cloud or mobile traffic, which is a major issue for enterprises.

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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. 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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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Here is what the experts say… Andrew Lerner @fast_lerner Andrew is an analyst at Gartner specializing in emerging networking architecture technologies, and was an early predictor of the impact of SD-WAN. Replacing MPLS/VPN circuits with IPsec-over-Internet (or something similar) can drastically reduce your WAN costs.

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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. Software-defined wide area network is a new way to manage and optimize enterprise networks. And here is where SD-WAN steps in.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2019

Typically, they have the in-house expertise to manage their existing wide area network and feel comfortable adapting to the new technologies of the SD-WAN. Internet connections are notoriously unpredictable and can fluctuate too much to sustain critical traffic such as voice and video.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. The optimized traffic isn’t secure, and the Internet traffic isnt optimized.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 23, 2017

Smith noted in his keynote that the lack of international norms guiding nation state behavior on the Internet has led us into dangerous territory where nation states take action against civilians. The Mirai botnet that launched the DDOS attack DYNs DNS, for example, used home routers, cameras and other IOT devices.

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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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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

With the promise of greater performance, network service providers are actively stepping up their testing and trials. Standards organizations, including the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), are also stepping in to codify 5G specifications. 5G and SDN Capabilities Intersect.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2017

The MPLS networks that drive most enterprises were deployed at a time when threats predominantly came from outside the company. Security meant protecting the companys central Internet access point and deploying endpoint security on clients. Redundant connections are whats needed.

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