Bridging the LAN and the WAN: Our WAN Bridge IoT Hack
PubNub
JANUARY 8, 2025
At last week's Hackendo, we bridged the LAN and the WAN, connecting devices on the Wide Area Network securely and reliably with a WAN bridge
Tech Bytes: Cloudflare Simplifies Wide Area Networks With Magic WAN (Sponsored)
Packet Pushers
MAY 16, 2022
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast were talking WAN architectures and how to simplify and secure them with sponsor Cloudflare. Cloudflare's Magic WAN is a network-as-a-service offering. Today on the Tech Bytes podcast were talking WAN architectures and how to simplify and secure them with sponsor Cloudflare.
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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be
Kentik
MARCH 13, 2023
For most enterprise NetOps teams, a discussion about the WAN is a discussion about the cloud. 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.
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HN730: Retail, Healthcare, Manufacturing and More Transform Their Branches with Next-Gen SD-WAN and SASE (Sponsored)
Packet Pushers
APRIL 19, 2024
If you havent made the leap from traditional wide area networking to SD-WAN, or perhaps youre thinking about adding security services to your SD-WAN infrastructure, this episode is for you.
The WAN Survey: Learn From Your Peers
CATO Networks
MARCH 28, 2017
How will SD-WANs impact your business? Find out when you participate in our annual state of the WAN survey. The survey evaluates satisfaction levels and adoption rates of new wide area network (WAN) technologies, such as SD-WAN. Even if you have not deployed an SD-WAN, we want to hear from you.
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Transitioning to SD-WANs: Problems to Avoid
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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SD-WANs for SMEs
CATO Networks
APRIL 18, 2017
With any new technology, theres a rush to offer features required by the biggest and bravest of companies and SD-WANs are no exception. But if youre a small- to medium-sized enterprise and not a Fortune 50 retailer, what SD-WAN features do you really need to be considering? What features do SMEs really need from their SD-WAN providers?
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2018: Is Your WAN Ready?
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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WAN Optimization vs. SD-WAN, or Why You Need Both
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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Join The SD-WAN Summer School
CATO Networks
JULY 24, 2017
Keep your edge by beefing up your SD-WAN knowledge. Over the next month or so, weve put together a jam-packed schedule of SD-WAN webinars to help combat the tech fatigue of the lazy days of summer. In this webinar, Garson and Greenfield team up again to address questions any buyers should ask of their SD-WAN vendor.
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Taking Your WAN into the Next Generation: Understanding Your Options
CATO Networks
DECEMBER 5, 2016
More and more, global cloud-based services and mobility are increasingly demanding a greater share of your networks traffic, raising the need for a Wide Area Network (WAN) that connects all of your network services and users regardless of their location. Do you continue paying premium prices for MPLS links?
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What is SD-WAN?
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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A Guide to WAN Architecture & Design
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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SASE is not SD-WAN + SSE
CATO Networks
JULY 24, 2023
SASE = SD-WAN + SSE. It identifies two elements that underpin SASE , namely the network access technology ( SD-WAN ) and secure internet access ( Security Service Edge (SSE) ). The East-West WAN traffic visibility gap : SASE converges two separate disciplines: the Wide Area Network and Network Security.
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TMC, Layer123 Recognize Cato for SD-WAN Leadership
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 SASE Cloud’s “Innovation” and “Platform Play” Earn “Leader” and “Outperformer” Status in GigaOm SD-WAN Radar Report
CATO Networks
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Today we announced that Cato Networks was named a Leader and Outperformer by GigaOm in the analyst firms Radar for SD-WAN Report. The report evaluates 20 notable SD-WAN vendors, including Cisco, Fortinet, Versa Networks, Juniper, Palo Alto, VMware, and others. GigaOm calls Cato a vendor to watch for its innovation.
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Lipstick on a Pig?: Hybrid WAN, SD-WAN and the Death of MPLS
CATO Networks
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
MPLS is a 20 years old enterprise networking technology. It had risen as a response to the business need for a reliable and predictable network performance across the wide area network (WAN). Enter the Hybrid WAN. The SD-WAN approach, in our view, is short sighted. The post Lipstick on a Pig?:
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The Future of Enterprise Networking : What Do The Experts Say About SD-WAN
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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What To Look For in a SD-WAN Vendor
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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The year in review: Delivering simplicity, productivity, reliability, and security with AI-Native Networking
Juniper
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Setting HPEs intent to acquire Juniper aside for a moment (which is still on track to close by early 2025), we have been relentlessly innovating our AI-Native Networking Platform and consistently delivering on our go-to-market goals across our enterprise, service provider, and cloud segments.
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How SD-WANs Can Become Next Generation WAN Architectures
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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How Alewijnse used SD-WAN Connectivity as an MPLS Alternative: A In-depth Profile
CATO Networks
OCTOBER 26, 2017
The Dutch engineering company had built a global wide area network (WAN) out of MPLS and Internet services connecting 17 locations 14 in Europe and 3 in the Asia Pacific with about 800 mobile and field employees. Mobile security was an issue and another area ignored by MLPS. But they rejected the idea.
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Why SD-WAN is the Future of Global Connectivity
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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Ensuring High Uptime with SD-WAN
CATO Networks
JUNE 17, 2018
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is making organizations rethink their WAN infrastructure. With features like load balancing and measuring the real-time transport quality of each circuit, SD-WAN provides the high uptime businesses demand by using a mix of Internet connections.
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How Secure is Your SD-WAN?
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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Top Webinars on SD-WAN Technology and Solutions
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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Sign of the Times: Time to Eliminate Your Dependence on MPLS and Switch to SD-WAN
CATO Networks
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
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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Top SD-WAN Events to Attend in 2018 and 2019
CATO Networks
JUNE 25, 2018
Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) has become a runaway success across all industry sectors. Analysts at IDC have estimated the SD-WAN gold rush will increase with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 70 percent by 2021.
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What You Don’t Need from an SD-WAN Vendor
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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The business case for SD-WAN: Because MPLS is Not Fit for the Cloud
CATO Networks
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
As critical business applications are moving to the cloud and with the wide adoption of SaaS and mobile applications in the workplace, connectivity becomes a crucial business asset with the direct effect on the bottom line. Software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) can get the job done. Here is why.
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The Promise and Peril of SD-WANs
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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SD-WAN and Cloud Security
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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SD-WAN and Security: The Architecture is All that Matters
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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The Co-Managed SD-WAN: A Managed Infrastructure with Self-Service Capabilities for Agility
CATO Networks
JUNE 5, 2019
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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Networking Glossary: Top 16 Networking Terms Everyone Should Know
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. Jitter the varied delay between packets that can result from network congestion, improper queuing, or configuration errors. See also WAN Latency.
Security + Network As a Service: the Better SD-WAN
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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Internet Underlay Visibility is Critical for SD-WAN Overlays
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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4 Tangible Reasons for Considering SD-WANs
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
JULY 31, 2017
Cato SD-WAN is First to Converge Global Networking and Advanced Security Services Cato introduced today a context-aware Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) as part of its Cato Cloud secure SD-WAN service. Cato IPS is the first to be integrated with a global SD-WAN service , bringing context-aware protection to users everywhere.
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News in Networking: SD-WAN for $3.3B and Facebook’s Free Open/R Networking Tool
Kentik
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
This week, we learned the SD-WAN market is forecasted to reach $3.3 Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Here are those headlines and more: Cisco, VMware in SD-WAN market ‘two-horse race’ (SDxCentral).
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Terugblik op 2024: Eenvoud, productiviteit, betrouwbaarheid en veiligheid dankzij AI-native netwerken
Juniper
JANUARY 21, 2025
Onze producten voor campus en kantoor , datacenters , WAN-routering en beveiliging hebben keer op keer bewezen de IT-productiviteit te verhogen. Een nieuwe norm voor wide-area networking In feite hebben we een nieuwe norm gesteld voor WAN (wide-area networking) en voor geweldige performance, betrouwbaarheid en eenvoud.
Service Insertion and Service Chaining Defined
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. The post Service Insertion and Service Chaining Defined appeared first on Cato Networks.
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Firewall-as-a-Service debuts on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection
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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2018 Networking Survey: The Curse of Complexity Continues
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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