Kentik

JANUARY 6, 2021

Traditional WAN : WAN access switches, integrated services routers, cloud access routers. SD-WAN : Access gateways, uCPE, vCPE, and composed SD-WAN services including their cloud overlays. Service provider backbone : Edge and core routers, transport switches, optical switches, DC interconnects.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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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Packet Pushers

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today's Network Break covers new SD-WAN routers from Cisco, a giant Juniper acquisition, new WIPS capabilities from Extreme, the United States' anti-trust lawsuit against Google, Intel selling its NAND business, and Space Networking!

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Network Engineering

DECEMBER 4, 2024

One of my biggest challenges here is determining how to establish an overlay network over the WAN. 24 | | [Router] [Router] | | 192.168.2.0/24 24 | | [Router] [Router] | | 172.16.11.0/24 24 / / [ WAN ] / __/ | 172.11.10.0/24 24 | [Router C] | 192.168.3.0/24 SITE A SITE B [PC] [PC] 192.168.1.0/24

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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

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 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. Enter SD-WAN.

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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

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

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

The answer Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs). SD-WAN brings unparalleled agility and cost savings to networking. With SD-WAN, organizations can deliver more responsive, more predictable applications at lower cost in less time than the managed MPLS services traditionally used by the enterprise. How Does SD-WAN Work?

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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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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. Streamlining the network security infrastructure and providing secure Internet access from any location were the top 2 reasons for moving to SD-WAN in 2018.

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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.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2023

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) provides the ability to implement a secure, high-performance corporate WAN on top of existing networks. However, SD-WAN infrastructures must be carefully designed and implemented to provide full value to the organization. SD-WAN is also beneficial for remote workers.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It had risen as a response to the business need for a reliable and predictable network performance across the wide area network (WAN). Unmanaged Internet-based global routing, which I will refer to as the middle mile, is a convoluted mess of communication service providers, links and routers. Enter the Hybrid WAN.

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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

MARCH 20, 2018

Many organizations today are choosing to migrate to SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network), because it can eliminate the challenges of MPLS networks. SD-WAN brings software defined networking (SDN) to the WAN, improving WAN management and increasing cost savings when compared against MPLS.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Even simple network changes, like adding static routes to a router, necessitated submitting change tickets to the MPLS provider. SD-WAN Appliances Prove To Be Too Complicated Burns needed a different approach and tried solving Humphreys networking problems with SD-WAN appliances. They just looked at me like I was crazy.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 17, 2018

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is making organizations rethink their WAN infrastructure. Instead of connecting a location with one highly-available MPLS connection, SD-WAN can connect a location with multiple, less-reliable broadband Internet connections, selecting the optimum connection per application.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud. MPLS: Reliable, But Comes with a Price The popularity of MPLS deployments in corporate WAN infrastructures comes from its predictability.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 28, 2018

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. SD-WAN Experts was launched in 2007 by Steve Garson ( @WANExperts ) a renowned expert in the field of enterprise networking and network architecture. He also extensively talks about SD-WAN.

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Akins IT

OCTOBER 26, 2001

In 2019, it became clear that SD-WAN had secured its position as the way forward for enterprise WAN connectivity. Market adoption is growing rapidly, and industry experts have declared a winner in the SD-WAN vs MPLS debate. SO WHAT IS SD-WAN? Whats driving all the excitement around SD-WAN?

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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. SD-WANs automate these and other steps.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Routers forward these packets from source to destination and data encapsulation enables the data to traverse the TCP/IP stack. Lets explore packet loss in more depth and explain how Cato can reduce it on the enterprise WAN. When discussing WAN optimization , the question of what is an acceptable level of packet loss?

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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

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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Router-switch

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been a beacon in addressing these challenges, earning its place as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic… The post HPEs SD-WAN Leadership: A Testament to Innovation and Excellence first appeared on Router Switch Blog.

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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

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

JANUARY 18, 2021

As enterprises set out to modernize their networks, SD-WAN has become a key networking technology for connecting offices. And 90 percent of the capabilities of routers, firewalls, and now, SD-WAN are common across vendors. Yes, SD-WAN is one of the capabilities in such a platform, but SD-WAN alone is not the answer.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That means making sure the wide area network (WAN) that connects branch offices, data centers, cloud services and SaaS applications can handle the connectivity needs of digitally empowered global organizations. Software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) can get the job done.

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