Network Engineering

DECEMBER 4, 2024

One of my biggest challenges here is determining how to establish an overlay network over the WAN. Another challenge is that the network infrastructures in SITE A and SITE B share the same IP blocks, and I cannot change them. How can I configure this network without causing any IP conflicts? 24 | [Router C] | 192.168.3.0/24

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Juniper

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Official Juniper Networks Blogs The year in review: Delivering simplicity, productivity, reliability, and security with AI-Native Networking The past year at Juniper has been exciting to say the least. Junipers AIOps simplifies network management, empowering IT teams to shift from reactive to proactive management.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The WAN is evolving after years of stagnation, and SD-WAN is all the rage. What is the promise driving SD-WAN? In short, SD-WAN aims to remove the constraints of legacy connectivity technologies, namely MPLS and the unmanaged public Internet , ushering a new age of flexible, resilient and secure networks.

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Network Engineering

JANUARY 26, 2025

I have a web managed switch on my network. It is connected to a router, along with the host PC i am on. I cannot ping it through the router. Router is Fedora server. the router's applicable interfaces are: enp3s0 wan interface enp4s0 with static IP 192.168.2.2/24 the router later asks who has 192.168.2.1.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

The corporate WAN connects an organizations distributed branch locations, data center, cloud-based infrastructure, and remote workers. The WAN needs to offer high-performance and reliable network connectivity to ensure all users and applications can communicate effectively.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 28, 2018

Finding it difficult to keep up to date with changes in enterprise networking technologies? We have researched hundreds of networking blogs and news websites so you dont have to. Below we have listed the top 15 sites and blogs on the subject of networking and SD-WAN that should be on your reading list. We hear you.

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Packet Pushers

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This week's Network Break covers several announces from VMware Explore including a new SD-WAN client. ASIC-maker Marvell goes after industrial networks with new silicon, Cisco announces the curtain falling on several ISR router models, and SolarWinds settles with the SEC.

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Packet Pushers

MARCH 24, 2023

Arista Networks has announced two hardware WAN routers, the 5510 and the 5310, which are targeted at branch, edge, and remote sites. The routers run EOS with a full routing stack. Arista Networks has announced two hardware WAN routers, the 5510 and the 5310, which are targeted at branch, edge, and remote sites.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Managing a big pile of network gear at every branch location is a hassle. Fewer solutions typically also means reducing the number of technical skill sets needed to keep the WAN humming. But, when converged solutions come with converged management tools and a consistent, unified interface, life gets better for WAN engineers.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

When it comes to the enterprise network, decisions need to be made with cost, performance, security, and future plans in mind. Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And its also no secret that as more applications move to the cloud, significant changes are hosted onto the WAN. SD-WAN appliances are ill-suited to address these changes. For example, most appliance-based SD-WAN require enterprises to layer security in themselves. Youd have access from anywhere and security everywhere.

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Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Network is the Key. The network is down!” — I’m sure you heard that before. Despite your best efforts as a network engineer, network failures happen, and you have to fix them. Network troubleshooting becomes easier if your network is observable. Network Troubleshooting Defined.

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Packet Pushers

JUNE 20, 2022

The same FortiGate NGFW appliance includes networking capabilities including a router, SD-WAN, ZTNA, and a LAN controller. The same FortiGate NGFW appliance includes networking capabilities including a router, SD-WAN, ZTNA, and a LAN controller.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

As critical business applications migrate to the cloud, and the mobile workforce continues to grow, networking and security solutions need to evolve in order to meet the changing business needs. 1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries? 1990s – 2000s: MPLS and the Era of Clear Network Boundaries?

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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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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

MARCH 9, 2022

SD-WAN networks provide multiple benefits to organizations, especially when compared to MPLS. SD-WAN improves cloud application performance, reduces WAN costs and increases business agility. This blog post lists the top considerations for enterprises that are evaluating and deploying SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

JULY 15, 2020

Lets analyze SD-WANs completeness according to this definition. SD-WAN delivers various benefits compared to legacy WANs, mainly offering enterprises cost optimization, agility, and simplicity. Dynamic load sharing of traffic across multiple WAN connections, based on corporate defined policies. So, Whats Missing?

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CATO Networks

MARCH 27, 2019

Our research also shows, though,that many enterprises experience an increase in WAN costs to support connectivity to the cloud. Approximately 38% of companies benchmarked by Nemertes Research in 2018 saw their WAN costs rise as a result of their adoption of UCaaS, with a mean increase in spend of 23.5%.

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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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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? It’s often taken for granted by network specialists that there is a trade-off among these three facets. Durability.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

By implementing an MPLS alternative , an SLA-backed WAN and by eliminating the stacks of security appliances , bandwidth costs drop and operations become more efficient. And three WAN optimizers meant a one-time outlay of nearly $60,000 with annual renewals of $7,000. But when the protocol failed, so did the location.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

The networking industry loves a good buzzword as much as any other IT sector. Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) certainly fits that billing. The term has been around for at least a decade has come back in vogue to describe networking purchased on a subscription basis. Gartner identifies the specific attributes of a cloud service.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2023

Corporate networks are rapidly becoming more complex and distributed. Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) provides the ability to implement a secure, high-performance corporate WAN on top of existing networks. SD-WAN Best Practices A poorly implemented SD-WAN poses significant risk to the organization.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 9, 2019

WANs are slow. In most enterprises, the WAN changes more slowly than just about any other part of the infrastructure. People like to set up routers and such and then touch them as infrequently as possibleand that goes both for enterprises and for their WAN service providers as well. So, the speed-up is sorely needed.

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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. Maintaining security on a network with hundreds of locations is a challenge, and a security breach could mean lost revenue and compromised client or intellectual data.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 26, 2018

SD-WAN solutions have become mainstream in the enterprise, but some organizations are still looking at the technology from afar and wondering if it could be right for them. Most notable about the report is the Gartner analysts recommendation that SD-WAN should be included in future WAN architecture discussions.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Networking is an enterprise IT discipline where being conservative is often the way to go. After all, without the network, todays technology-powered businesses are dead in the water. The network doesnt have to be totally down, though, to disrupt the business. MPLS is a 20 years old enterprise networking technology.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What is the ROI on SD-WAN projects? Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. But the actual SD-WAN ROI is a mix of hard and soft savi n gs from increasing overall network capacity and availability to a reduc ed operational load of managing and securing the network.

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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

MARCH 20, 2018

MPLS networks have been the standard configuration for enterprise networks for years, providing predictability and availability. Security policies for MPLS based networks need to be managed at each site and the various appliances must be continuously updated and upgraded.

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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. What are your options?

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DCNN Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2025

Juniper Networks , a provider of secure, AI-native networking, has today announced a landmark project with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, ASTRON, to upgrade its core, access, WLAN and WAN network infrastructure, supporting the development of its LOFAR 2.0 (Low Low Frequency Array) upgraded telescope.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Network packets, the protocol data units (PDUs) of the network layer, are often taken for granted by network pros. Routers forward these packets from source to destination and data encapsulation enables the data to traverse the TCP/IP stack. Network monitoring software. Network congestion. Security breaches.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, global changes like remote work, mobile connectivity and cloud-based infrastructure require businesses to reconsider their MPLS network strategy. MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) is a network routing technique that is based on predetermined paths, instead of routers determining the next hop in real-time.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The companys MPLS network already connected the Dallas headquarters with offices in New Orleans, Garland, Texas, and Toronto. Even simple network changes, like adding static routes to a router, necessitated submitting change tickets to the MPLS provider. The configuration pages of the SD-WAN appliance were insane.

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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. For example, digital transformation is based on business speed, and the lack of network agility can hold an organization back. SD-WAN is a very broad category. Frankfurt to Shanghai 1.99

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