MPLS VPN Wide Area Network 
CATO Networks
OCTOBER 26, 2017
As the company grew, Alewijnse found MPLS connectivity to be increasingly unable meet its business requirements. 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.
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. By offloading traffic from the MPLS link, costly capacity upgrades can be delayed. Is MPLS a required component of your WAN strategy?
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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.
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. MPLS (Multiprotocol Logical Switching) a technology for moving traffic between locations.
CATO Networks
AUGUST 17, 2021
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.
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. During the first wave of COVID-19, IT had to throw money and hardware at the problem, stacking up legacy VPN servers all over the world to catch up with the demand.
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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