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2018 Networking Survey: The Curse of Complexity Continues

CATO Networks

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. All respondents came from organizations with MPLS backbones.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security. 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.). SD-WAN and SASE solutions offer PbR functionality.

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