Cato Networks

Cato Networks provides a converged security, networking, and mobility service; SD-WAN is one part of that offering.

How it Works

Customers connect their locations, cloud instances, and mobile users to the Cato Cloud, Cato’s SLA-backed network. Once on the Cato Cloud, traffic can be kept internal to the company or sent onto the Internet. Cato inspects internal- and Internet-traffic with advanced security services including next-generation firewalling / URL filtering and anti-malware.

The Cato Cloud at last review was global with 30 Point of Presences (PoPs) across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America. Customers use third-party Internet services. Locations can be connected with a physical appliance (the Cato Socket) or a virtual appliance (the vSocket). Mobile users connect into with Cato’s mobile client (the Cato Client).  Each Cato node builds a secure tunnel across the Internet connection to the closest PoP.

As an SLA-backed network, the Cato Cloud provides better performance than the general Internet. According to Cato, every PoP is fully redundant and connected to at least two tier 1 Internet backbones. Leased bandwidth in the form of transit services across these backbones eliminates the erraticness associated with Internet peering.