SD-WAN & SASE Solutions Comparison: Cato Networks’ Architecture

Your company is in the market for an SD-WAN solution, and you’ve heard of Cato Networks, but you’re still a little foggy on their network architecture.

In this video, I cover Cato Networks’ Architecture for your company.

Want a demo and quote on Cato and their competition? Ask me today.

About Me

Mike Smith has been helping companies select the best telecom, WAN, security, and cloud services since 1999. He founded AeroCom in 2003, and has been the recipient of numerous business telecommunications industry awards, including being recognized as one of the top 40 business people in tech-heavy Orange County, CA. Follow Mike on YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit and SpiceWorks.

Transcript

Your company is in the market for an SD-WAN or SASE solution. And you’ve heard of CATO networks, but you’re still a little bit foggy on their network architecture. Well, my name is Mike Smith. I’m the president of Aero. Come, let’s put our heads together on this.

My Recommendation

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Fully Cloud

All right. Let’s talk about CATO networks network architecture. There are six big aspects of their network architecture that I want to cover today that are, to me, are the most important things to know about their network architecture. The first thing is that everything with CATO is fully cloud. Nothing is sitting on the edge, so that means security, like SASE. That means SD-Wan, routing, everything like that is is fully in the cloud. Nothing’s really sitting on prem on the appliances that get deployed out or to your your remote users.

Global Cloud POPS

The second thing you need to know about their network architecture is that CATO has global points of presence or Pops. So they have think of it like they have global data centers so that all of your locations and all of your users, no matter where they’re at, they’re going to connect up first to the closest global pop. And the advantage of having global Pops in the cloud is that your company can do bi directional traffic shaping, bi directional load balancing if you have multiple circuits, and bi directional failover if you have multiple circuits. But at the very least, even if you have a single circuit, you can do bi directional traffic shaping because you have two points controlling that last mile. You have your onsite appliance. You also have your global pop. So by by having two points there, they’re able to in your IP address. Excuse me is coming from your SD WAN or your SASE cloud. So because that you’re advertising Kato’s IP address, not your IP address of your local ISP, you were able to do that bi directional traffic shaping. So that’s what’s really setting their architecture apart as opposed to service providers that are offering in what I call an on prem only that’s the win solution, where they can only control outbound traffic shaping, not inbound traffic shaping. So if you want more information on the different types of SD-Wan service providers, check out my video of the different types of architecture of SD-Wan architecture.

Global Backbone

A third aspect of Cato Networks network architecture is they have their own private global backbone network that is connecting all of those global Pops that I just talked about. And the advantage of that is that by having a private global backbone, your traffic is going to stay on a private global backbone for the most part, as opposed to trying to go across the public internet. So think of an example. If you have a site in Singapore or a site in Australia, and then a site in the United States and a site in the United Kingdom, your traffic could either go over a private backbone that’s controlled over that or over the public internet, which we know has no control. So which do you think is going to give you lower latency, packet loss and jitter? It’s the private backbone network, right? Absolutely. And so Cato offers things like TCP proxy across the network, other things like that to help really control that latency on their private backbone network.

Peering

The fourth aspect I think you should know about is that Cato has private peering with the major cloud applications like AWS and Azure. So what that’s going to do is it’s going to allow you to obviously communicate with those applications faster and more securely, because they’re directly connected to them off of your SD-Wan. SASE backbone. So those applications are connected directly into the backbone on that private network that we talked about. So you’re not going to those applications over the public internet.

Security

Okay. Another aspect which I’ve alluded to a little bit in the past, is that Cato also offers security as part of their network architecture. They offer things like secure web gateway, firewall as a service. Zero trust network access. And cloud access security Broker, otherwise known as CASB. So there are fully SASE and CASB security solutions as part of the global network offering. They’re giving you.

Zero Touch Deployment

And the last aspect of Cato’s network architecture is it’s a zero touch architecture from a customer standpoint. So that zero touch deployment, that zero touch updates, that’s zero touch configuration changes that are made in the cloud and push down to the local appliances. So everything is zero touch. So you’re not having to have a highly technical person at each one of your sites. Everything is configured remotely in the cloud and then push down to more of like dummy devices, dummy appliances on site.

What are the best SD-WAN/SASE vendors that your company should quote?

Okay, so those are the major aspects of Cato Networks network architecture. If you want to know more about Cato or you want to get a full demo and quote from Cato, don’t reach out to Cato directly. Actually reach out, send me an email or give me a call (714.593.0011) him a broker for all the major service providers out there, including Cato Networks. And I will get you better pricing on Cato, get you introduced to the right people to work with over there. You’ll have a much better experience working with Cato by calling me, and that’s what I do. That’s why I do these videos. So send me an email, give me a call. I’m a broker for all the major vendors out there. I’ve been doing this for over 25 years now, and within a few minutes I can ask you some questions about your company’s requirements and then I can give you some recommendations. I can introduce you to the right salespeople over there to work with or oversee the coding process and make sure everything goes smoothly and you get the best pricing available. And on top of all that, I don’t charge you anything for my broker services because service providers like Cato actually pay me my broker fee, so your company doesn’t have to pay me anything to get my help. So there’s absolutely no excuse not to at least reach out and get my opinion on this stuff. So reach out today. I love to talk to you and help you. And don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don’t miss any of my future weekly videos that I put out.