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How Route Diversity in SD-WAN Provides MPLS-Like Determinism Required for Real-Time Traffic

CATO Networks

Whether a dedicated wire or MPLS, the cost of traditional WAN technology increases in direct relationship to determinism. SD-WAN solves this very problem by utilizing route and component diversity made feasible by the improvements in technology and the affordable costs of Internet bandwidth.

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What Is SD-WAN and Why Organizations Are Making The Switch To It

Akins IT

In 2019, it became clear that SD-WAN had secured its position as the way forward for enterprise WAN connectivity. Market adoption is growing rapidly, and industry experts have declared a winner in the SD-WAN vs MPLS debate. SO WHAT IS SD-WAN? Whats driving all the excitement around SD-WAN?

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5 Reasons Why You'll Want to Consider SD-WAN

Akins IT

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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Azure SD-WAN: Cloud Datacenter Integration with Cato Networks

CATO Networks

As critical applications migrate into Microsoft Azure, enterprises are challenged with building a WAN that can deliver the necessary cloud performance without dramatically increasing costs and complexity. Theres been no good approach to building an Azure SD-WAN until now. Nor does edge SD-WAN help. Lets see how.

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Should You Be Concerned About the Security of SD-WAN?

CATO Networks

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.

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How To Best Design Your WAN for Accessing AWS, Azure, and the Cloud

CATO Networks

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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SD-WAN and Security: The Architecture is All that Matters

CATO Networks

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. Security was never a strength of SD-WAN companies and legacy telcos.

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