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

JUNE 19, 2018

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

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This stat struck a chord with me as it helps to quantify a common problem the Cato team works with customers to solve: reducing WAN latency. However, keeping WAN latency in check while using traditional solutions, like MPLS or VPN, with cloud services has become impractical. Well answer that here.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Its about a year before your MPLS contract expires, and youve been told to cut costs by your CFO. That MPLS too expensive. Naturally, its your job to find a solution… There actually could be several reasons why its time to pull the plug on your MPLS, or at least, consider MPLS alternatives. Find an alternative.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Network performance, security, and redundancy all became major issues as AdRoll grew, prompting Dunne to search for a VPN alternative. What struck me most about AdRolls use case was that it was a microcosm for the issues so many enterprises face with VPN. Often, VPNs makes sense at a small scale or for one-off applications.

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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. The core value proposition of SD-WAN is the use of a standard, low-cost Internet link to augment an expensive managed, low-latency and guaranteed capacity MPLS link.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Marketers have their brochures; engineers have their test reports, but nothing is more compelling when selecting an SD-WAN than real-life experience. Todays blog takes a look at some challenges real customers faced with their WAN infrastructure, and how Cato Networks was able to help. The proof truly is in the pudding, as they say.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

WAN Transformation: SD-WAN Cost and ROI Analysis Its no secret that traditional wide area networks (WANs) have to change. But cost reductions, in particular, that are often promised with the successor to traditional WANs, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), is often misleading.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

SD-WAN adoption is seeing rapid growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications. Our 2018 survey included over 700 respondents from IT enterprises that currently run MPLS backbones. Forty-two percent said it reduced the cost of MPLS service.

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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. Like so many technologies, though, there are the promises of SD-WANs and then there are the realities of SD-WANs. Yes, there are good reasons for MPLS higher costs.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2020

The most common enterprise remote access technology is Virtual Private Networking (VPN). A VPN client is installed on the users devices laptops, smartphones, tablets to connect over the Internet to a server in the headquarters. However, VPNs were built to enable short duration connectivity for a small subset of the users.

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2019

A recent conversation with a WAN engineer got me thinking about how network optimization techniques have changed over the years. Traditional WAN optimization tools do little to help address these challenges, as theyre simply designed to reduce bandwidth consumption. WAN optimization appliances couldnt fix that trombone problem.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 10, 2018

IT teams are excited about the opportunities afforded by SD-WAN. If youve read this blog for any amount of time (or followed SD-WANs development in other blogs for that matter) youll know what Im talking about. But whats interesting about Cato SD-WAN is that even the SD-WAN hype doesnt do it injustice. Rapid deployment.

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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. Impact of the Dissolved Perimeter The traffic patterns driving SD-WAN adoption change how companies protect their users and data.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

They are moving their datacenters to the cloud, using more and more SaaS products, and moving their networking ( SD-WAN ) and security ( FWaaS ) to cloud-based solutions. WAN transformation is one such example. The WAN Is Incompatible with Todays Business The legacy WAN is misaligned with the way business gets done today.

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2018

MPLS was not designed for this new reality. The appliance form factor including the cost of hardware, software, and expert staff to maintain it is a burden which SD-WAN eliminates with Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). They connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN).

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The market for SD-WAN has been driven in part by its ability to reduce bandwidth costs and improve the performance of cloud access. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. This amicable live-and-let-live separation falls apart with todays SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

However, when it comes to SD-WAN technology it is difficult to ignore its obvious benefits. 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? Enterprise networking experts often disagree on many things.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Key components include SD-WAN, Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Migration of MPLS to Secure SD-WAN The legacy MPLS services connecting locations are unsuitable for supporting cloud adoption and the remote workforce.

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Obkio

MAY 4, 2023

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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. Continue Reading. x Free Tools.

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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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Kentik

JULY 6, 2017

Protecting Availability for Internet-based WAN Sites. SD-WAN is one of 2017’s hottest networking technologies. Last week at Cisco Live was no exception; Cisco’s $610M acquisition of Viptela in May made for a lot of SD-WAN buzz. For enterprises, SD-WAN makes a lot of sense.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? Heres a list of the key acronyms to help you keep up with the latest in WAN transformation. By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet.

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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

APRIL 19, 2017

With any new technology theres fake news and SD-WANs are no exception. Its true, SD-WANs probably wont reduce your WAN costs by 90 percent or make WANs so simple a 12-year old can deploy them. SD-WANs allow us to do the same with the WAN. It was an arcane art and CCIEs were the master craftsman of the trade.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 21, 2019

For global companies still operating with a legacy WAN architecture, WAN modernization is mandatory today for a variety of reasons. SD-WAN is a very broad category. If a company chooses the wrong SD-WAN, it can be detrimental to the business. Global companies have unique networking needs.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2021

As enterprises set out to modernize their networks, SD-WAN has become a key networking technology for connecting offices. Buy more VPN servers? And 90 percent of the capabilities of routers, firewalls, and now, SD-WAN are common across vendors. But with COVID-19, users transitioned to work at home, not in the office.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 14, 2019

One complaint I often hear is how the WAN can be a bottleneck to productivity. 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. the trombone effect ).

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

This approach is mostly chosen by companies that dont want to compromise on security and also need WAN access. This can be achieved in two ways:: Establishing a VPN connection to traffic from each location using an appliance. Using an MPLS network and routing the traffic over a reliable network.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

Fortunately, cloud-native SD-WAN platforms, like Cato Cloud , enable enterprises to leverage Network as a Service to its full potential. Network as a Service: A crash course With NaaS, many WAN complexities can be abstracted away. Coupled with an SD-WAN appliance some may argue that NaaS can go a long way in replacing MPLS.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

Hybrid Wide-Area Network (Hybrid WAN) a type of wide area network that sends traffic over two or more connection types. For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection. 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

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

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Its become almost cliche to talk about how SD-WAN improves IT agility, but not for one IT manager at a security software company that asked to remain anonymous. He learned firsthand how much cloud-based SD-WAN services can improve IT agility and turn you into an IT hero. It was about 1.5 hours of work per tunnel per site.

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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

APRIL 19, 2021

The migration to SASE will enable enterprises to successfully address the current and future network ing and security challenges : Shift ing to cloud-delivered security to protect anywhere, anytime access to digital capabilities Simplify ing security management that has become complex due to multiple vendors, policies , and appliances Reduc (..)

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