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Cato Networks SASE Review: AI & Machine Learning
Your company is in the market for a SASE SD-WAN solution, and you’ve heard of Cato Networks. You’re wondering if they use AI, and how do they use it? In this video, I cover 6 uses for AI and Machine Learning…
Cato Networks SASE SD-WAN Review 2025
Your company is in the market for a SASE SD-WAN Solution, and you’ve heard of Cato Networks. What’s the inside scoop on them? What’s good? What’s not so good? In this video, I review everything you need to know about…
The Best SD-WAN Vendors: Reduce Packet Loss on International Routes
Which SD-WAN vendors are the best for reducing packet loss on international routes? Mike Smith explains the 3 types of SD-WAN vendors, and tells you which type will probably be best for keeping packet loss at a minimum, when sending…
Comparing SD-WAN Vendors: Combining with a private WAN
Is your company researching SD-WAN, but you have both public Internet connections and a private WAN connection that you will be keeping? Mike Smith explains if this is possible and how it will affect your search for the best SD-WAN…
Comparing SD-WAN Vendors: Security
If your company is researching SD-WAN, there are a few main areas where vendors differ drastically. One of them is security. Some don’t offer it, and some do… And the vendors who offer it, differ in the type of security…
SD-WAN Vendors: Load Balancing ISPs
Is your company looking into SD-WAN? If so, one thing you should consider is an SD-WAN solution that can load-balance ingress internet traffic. What does that mean? In this video, Mike Smith explains a couple different types of SD-WAN solutions…
SD-WAN Vendors with IP Addresses from the Cloud
Your company has multiple internet connections, from different ISP’s. But each ISP circuit has their own set of IP addresses. Can an SD-WAN solution give your company static IP addresses, from the cloud? Yes. No more needing to broadcast a…
SD-WAN Vendors: What is Traffic Shaping?
If you are researching SD-WAN for your company, no doubt you have heard the term “traffic shaping” as a feature offered by some of the SD-WAN solutions. In this short video, Mike Smith, explains specifically how the term “traffic shaping”…
SD-WAN Vendors: Pricing for Bandwidth
You’ve been hearing about SD-WAN but how much does it cost? Well, it depends on the type of SD-WAN. [sigh] For instance, on-prem-only solutions are often priced much differently than cloud-enabled. So, let’s tackle at least one of them today. In…
SD-WAN Vendors: Do not ignore site-to-cloud
If you’re researching SD-WAN for your company, you’ve probably noticed that there is a delineation, between on-prem-only solutions, and cloud-enabled solutions. If your company’s critical applications are moving to the cloud, you should absolutely take inventory of how your WAN…