Cato Neural Edge
Carry SD-WAN beyond the branch.
Cato Neural Edge extends SD-WAN with private-backbone transport after traffic leaves the branch.
100+ PoPs. 99.999% uptime.
PoPs interconnect across multiple tier-1 providers, backed by SLAs on availability, latency, packet loss, and jitter.
MPLS performance. Cloud economics.
By controlling routing and using only SLA-backed capacity, Cato delivers far better performance than the public internet.
Move beyond branch-only SD-WAN.
Reduce internet-path unpredictability
Reduce reliance on public internet paths that can add latency, loss, or jitter between sites, clouds, and applications.
Reduce MPLS dependence
Use Cato's private backbone to improve global connectivity and reduce MPLS dependence where dedicated circuits no longer fit.
Simplify branch operations
Spend less time tuning, updating, and managing separate branch-by-branch stacks.
Find performance handoffs
When traffic crosses branch devices, carriers, clouds, and SaaS providers, it can be hard to see where performance changed or which team should act.
Guide traffic through
a single cloud service.
Cato Neural Edge is a cloud-native, private global backbone spanning 100+ PoPs worldwide. Purpose-built with embedded GPU-powered compute, it enhances AI-driven security at scale while delivering the high performance, resilience, low latency, and 99.999% uptime SLA that enterprises need for resilient global connectivity.
Connect to a nearby Cato PoP
Sites, users, clouds, and IPsec endpoints connect over encrypted tunnels to nearby Cato PoPs.
Use Cato's private backbone
After traffic enters a PoP, Cato can carry it across the private global backbone and use path selection to reduce dependence on best-effort internet routes.
Apply policy from a single service
Cato applies routing, traffic priority, and security policy from the cloud, so IT has fewer branch-specific stacks to manage.
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Give global traffic a more predictable path
Simplify WAN functions in the cloud
Cato shifts routing, policy enforcement, and inspection into a cloud service, reducing the need to manage those functions branch by branch.
- Manage routing and security policy centrally
- Reduce reliance on branch appliance stacks
- Make service updates easier
Make the middle mile more predictable
Cato PoPs interconnect across multiple providers. Cato monitors path health and uses application-aware routing to help traffic use available backbone paths when conditions change.
- Reduce reliance on best-effort internet routes
- Support availability, latency, loss, and jitter targets
- Help global applications perform more predictably
Improve throughput where it matters
For large file transfers and other TCP-heavy traffic, Cato WAN optimization helps data move more efficiently when distance, latency, or packet loss would otherwise slow it down.
- Help TCP-heavy traffic move more efficiently
- Reduce slowdowns for large transfers
- Customers see throughput improvements ranging from 4x to 40x
Help maintain service continuity
Backbone redundancy, provider diversity, and failover help keep service running when a PoP or provider path degrades.
- Use multiple provider paths where available
- Shift traffic away from degraded paths
- Keep resiliency in the cloud service instead of rebuilding it at every branch
Secure access to the backbone
Encrypted tunnels secure communication between Cato PoPs, Cato Sockets, and Cato Clients, with access limited to authorized sites and users.
- Protect traffic into the Cato cloud
- Limit access to authorized sites and users
- Support privacy and security requirements
Support evolving protection needs
GPU-powered compute at the PoP gives Cato architectural room to evolve AI and data protection in the cloud service without moving more inspection complexity to the branch.
- Keep compute in the cloud service
- Support evolving protection needs
- Avoid adding inspection complexity at the branch
Customers love Cato
We could access the Cato backbone at the nearest point and all our traffic would swing around those 18 time zones on a private network just for us.
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