The Cato Global Private Backbone is a private cloud-native network spanning 85+ points of presence (PoPs) worldwide. Compared with MPLS, it provides enterprises a high-performance and cost-effective alternative. Unlike the public internet, it delivers a 99.999% uptime SLA, low latency and consistent performance.
Cato dramatically reduces the cost of enterprise-grade global connectivity by leveraging the massive build out in IP capacity. Cato PoPs interconnect across multiple tier-1 providers, backed by SLAs on availability, latency, packet loss, and jitter. Cato’s software monitors the real-time performance of the provider networks and with our application-aware routing algorithms, selects the optimum path across the Cato backbone — even if that path is indirect, via other PoPs. By controlling the routing and only using SLA-backed network capacity, Cato delivers far better performance than the public Internet and at far lower cost than global MPLS.
Cato improves application throughput beyond just minimizing global network latency. Built-in WAN optimization dramatically improves TCP efficiency, increasing data throughput for sites and mobile users by as much as 40x. Cato PoPs proxy TCP connections, allowing TCP clients and servers to send far more data, sooner. Advanced TCP congestion control also enable Cato edges to send and receive more data, as well as better utilize the available bandwidth. Both techniques shorten the time needed to remediate errors, reducing the impact of packet loss on data.
Cato’s architecture ensures maximum availability with fully automated, self-healing capabilities. Failure detection, failover, and failback processes are all automatic, eliminating the need for special planning or orchestration. Each PoP contains multiple compute nodes running identical software, allowing any node to handle any edge tunnel. In case of a node failure, tunnels seamlessly shift to another node. If a PoP becomes unreachable, connected edges automatically reconnect to the nearest PoP. Similarly, PoPs automatically switch to alternate tier-1 providers if a connection degrades or fails.
Customers use Cato to eliminate complex legacy architectures comprised of multiple security point solutions and costly network services. Cato’s unique SASE platform consistently and autonomously delivers secure and optimized application access everywhere and to everyone.
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“We ran a breach-and-attack simulator on Cato, Infection rates and lateral movement just dropped while detection rates soared. These were key factors in trusting Cato security.”
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