The WAN revolution: Wide area network design marches forward

The advantages of cloud-based SD-WAN go beyond faster internet speeds, he added. Managing smaller sites — an office with just a couple people, for example, or a single employee working from home — can be a headache, since it’s hard to provide secure access to cloud-based data centers. But the Cato Socket is a single point of presence that can encrypt traffic and access any other branch as well as a data center.