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A New Approach to SD-WAN Management

CATO Networks

For a while now, there have been two basic SD-WAN solutions offering a choice between DIY (appliance-based) or fully managed (service-based) solutions. Being at opposite ends of the spectrum, customers are increasingly preferring an SD-WAN solution that encompasses the advantages of both solutions.

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The 4 Drivers in the Journey to Full WAN Transformation

CATO Networks

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. This is why enterprises increasingly turn to service providers and the cloud to run compute, storage, networking, and security.

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The Co-Managed SD-WAN: A Managed Infrastructure with Self-Service Capabilities for Agility

CATO Networks

SD-WAN certainly provides companies with a lot of flexibility, and one aspect of that flexibility is how to manage the networking solution. One management model is the Do it yourself (DIY) approach, which has long been popular with enterprises that purchase and deploy the SD-WAN appliances themselves.

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Sign of the Times: Time to Eliminate Your Dependence on MPLS and Switch to SD-WAN

CATO Networks

Multinational corporations have traditionally needed global MPLS services to build their WAN. That has changed now that secure, global SD-WAN as a Service is available worldwide. Service level agreements are a key part of global MPLS networks. There are different approaches to architecting an SD-WAN.

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