Next Gen Networking (SD-WAN)

Support business change without rebuilding the WAN.

Cato SD-WAN connects sites, clouds, and users through a cloud-delivered service backed by Cato's private global backbone. Start with the network change the business needs now, then grow into SASE from the same platform when ready.

Today's Challenges

Legacy WAN makes business change harder to support.

Appliance lifecycles and maintenance tie every site change to hardware
Internet-only routing leaves the middle mile exposed to public internet conditions
Teams lose time when performance issues span the whole application path

Branch appliance cycles

Appliance-centered SD-WAN constrains site growth, updates, and capacity planning around hardware at each location.

Unpredictable middle mile

Internet-only routing leaves performance between sites, clouds, users, and applications exposed to public internet conditions.

Troubleshooting gaps

Teams lose time when performance issues span sites, links, providers, clouds, SaaS, and applications.

Our approach

Make the WAN easier to change, operate, and trust.

Cato delivers SD-WAN as a cloud service, so IT can change the network at the pace the business needs — connecting sites, clouds, and users without rebuilding the WAN around new branch appliances.

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Growth Optimization

Open sites, add capacity, and support cloud access without rebuilding the WAN around new branch appliances.

Operational Efficiency

Manage SD-WAN policy, application priority, and service changes centrally instead of site by site.

User Experience

Carry priority traffic according to policy and link health, and see where performance issues begin.

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How Cato solves it

A cloud-delivered way to change the WAN.

Cato Management Application topology view showing 31 connected sites and users on the Cato Cloud
Connectivity

Operate SD-WAN from the cloud

Sites connect to the Cato Cloud and are managed centrally, so IT can bring locations online, apply policy, and deliver service changes without treating every branch as a separate appliance project.

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Cato Management Application Network Rules table showing transport, routing, and bandwidth priority policy applied centrally
Global backbone

Extend control into the middle mile

Most SD-WAN improves local link choice at the branch. Cato can carry traffic across its private global backbone, where centralized policy, routing, and traffic priority help business-critical applications use more predictable paths.

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Cato Digital Experience Monitoring dashboard showing site status, account experience trends, and per-site application experience scores
Experience

Find where user experience breaks

Cato provides visibility into site, link, application, and traffic data from the same service. With Cato DEM enabled, IT can add deeper diagnostics across the device, network, cloud, SaaS, and application.

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One platform

Start anywhere. Grow everywhere.

Next Gen Networking is one of five converged solutions on the Cato SASE Cloud. Adopt what you need now — extend across the rest on the same platform.

Customer Stories

Customers love Cato

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What we currently use are the networking capabilities of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform that includes SD-WAN, WAN optimization, global private backbone, as well as remote connectivity with SDP. Now, our users are always connected, always protected

Laurent GaertnerGlobal Director for Network, Cloud and Hosting, Carlsberg Group

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What to expect
  • 15–30 minute session with a SASE product expert
  • Discuss your use cases and how we can help
  • Live product demonstration where applicable
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