Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are. The WAN was how we got access to some websites and sent emails. So where are we today?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

SD-WANs bring SDN principles of service insertion to the wide area network. Layer-2 Service Insertion With flat networks, services can be inserted by bridging together two VLANs, such as with VLAN chaining. When users are in VLAN 1, for example, they can readily access the servers in VLAN 1.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2016

Enters software-defined networking (SDN). Originally, the concept of SDN emerged as a way to unbundle a hardware networking device (like a router) into a software-based control plane and a hardware-based data plane. Lets start with the network. It was slow to evolve, but it was unavoidable.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

Security policies for MPLS based networks need to be managed at each site and the various appliances must be continuously updated and upgraded. Many organizations today are choosing to migrate to SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network), because it can eliminate the challenges of MPLS networks.

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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. Today, he serves as a secure networking evangelist for Cato Networks.

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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. Software-defined wide area network is a new way to manage and optimize enterprise networks. And here is where SD-WAN steps in.

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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. SDN created an overlay across the local network, opening up a world of possibilities in efficiency and agility.

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