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

APRIL 12, 2018

The widespread adoption of Software-Defined Wide-Area-Network ( SD-WAN ) in recent years has caused many to wonder whether WAN optimization is still necessary. Bandwidth: Bandwidth limitations are addressed by minimizing the amount of data passed across the network. The technologies are similar.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

This means that corporate networks must change as well. The answer Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs). SD-WAN brings unparalleled agility and cost savings to networking. SD-WAN does this by separating applications from the underlying network services with a policy-based, virtual overlay.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 31, 2018

Regular readers of this blog know all too well what enterprises of all sizes are recognizing: the inefficiencies of legacy Wide Area Networks (WANs) making it difficult for many IT leaders to meet the needs of todays business. The post 2018: Is Your WAN Ready? appeared first on Cato Networks. Its no secret.

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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. However dependable, MPLS comes with its own set of challenges, such as expensive connectivity and long deployment times.

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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.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) adoption is on the rise in the enterprise and with that comes significant impact for IT managers considering how their MPLS network transformation. The UCaaS challenge for modern WANs For all of its benefits, UCaaS poses significant challenges for traditional enterprise network architectures.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Cato Cloud a 2017 Internet Telephony SD-WAN Excellence Award. The award is given to companies that demonstrate the innovation, vision, and execution to deliver software-based networking tools to support different and unique communities of interest.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

We, at Cato Networks, are excited to sponsor the 2017 Guide to WAN Architecture & Design. The wide area network (WAN) is a critical and fundamental resource for any business. As we will discuss in this guide, the WAN is evolving, so the architecture must evolve, as well.

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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 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

MARCH 29, 2018

Weve long touted the benefits of a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) so its encouraging to see that enterprises are increasingly recognizing its value. IDC recently surveyed mid-market enterprises and found they are rapidly embracing SD-WAN infrastructure and services.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Enterprise networking experts often disagree on many things. 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?

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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

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. See also WAN Latency. Network Throughput the rate of successful message delivery.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Companies needing to connect their users to the services in the cloud, who have been using a wide-area network (WAN) with MPLS for security, are seeing the benefits of using a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) for connectivity.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2018

IT organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). The IDC report estimates that worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure and services revenues will see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 69.6% and reach $8.05 billion in 2021. and reach $8.05

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2018

According to a report from Forrester, 90% of Network Managers are looking to evolve their WAN with a software-defined approach. Below are valuable on-demand webinars that answer crucial questions about growing SD-WAN technology. Each webinar provides insight into different SD-WAN topics for IT leaders to consider.

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

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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 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

MARCH 26, 2018

Looking back at the flood of announcements and the flurry of M&A activity, it’s fair to say that 2017 was the “Year of the SD-WAN.” Or at least the year that SD-WANs were permanently etched into our collective consciousness. The benefits of SD-WANs are compelling both economically and operationally.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2018

More and more IT managers are interested in converging SD-WAN with network security and for good reason. An agile, efficient, and ubiquitous security architecture is essential if organizations are to fully transform their networks. The result: continued costs and complexity that limit the value of WAN transformation.

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CATO Networks

JULY 13, 2016

However, we view the opportunity more broadly through the convergence of both Software-defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) and network security in the Cloud. FWaaS promises simplification and cost reduction by eliminating on-premise appliances.

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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. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2018

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. Its this curse of complexity that became a major theme in our new report, State of WAN 2018: Too Complex to Ignore.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

Over the past two decades, carriers have built massive global networking platforms that are faithfully serving many enterprises. MPLS-based services are under pressure from emerging Internet-based solutions. This strategy is attempting to patch the carrier MPLS cash cow and slow its decline. At a premium cost.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2016

While SDN is an important concept, it is moving slowly through the datacenter due to the complexity of the environment and the co-opetition between vendors that provide the virtual network functions (VNFs). Where SDN has traction is within the discipline of SD-WAN. SD-WAN is a narrower implementation of SDN concepts.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a change that makes perfect sense, because network flow records provide clear and concise insight into network traffic patterns. Flow data for WAN monitoring. The trend in engineering and capacity planning applies as well to wide-area network (WAN) service assurance, where network flow data is also essential.

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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. In fact, according to IDC , SD-WAN is entering a period of rapid adoption. And here is where SD-WAN steps in.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Seamless transition between home and office Today, networking and security infrastructure investments in MPLS, SD-WAN, and NGFW/UTM are focused on the office. It is now the time to think more strategically about the Hybrid Workforce and the key requirements to enable it.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 3, 2020

By the end of 2019, more than 450 enterprises worldwide were relying on Cato Cloud to connect tens of thousands of locations and mobile users quickly and securely with the datacenter, the cloud, the network edge and each other. Indeed, Gartner labelled Cato Networks a Sample SASE vendor. Sound familiar?

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Many enterprises are replacing their fixed MPLS wide area networks (WANs) with virtualized software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) to reduce costs. Performance -- Wireless networks have historically been seen as a WAN backup when the primary circuit goes down.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

Enterprises had to maintain their MPLS networks, SD-WANs, and network firewalls and layer on top of them the SWG, CASB, and ZTNA proxies. Migrating your Datacenter Firewall to the Cloud| Download the White Paper This complex reality was what Gur Shatz and I set out to change as we launched Cato Networks in 2015.

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