Global Private Backbone 

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.

Global Private Backbone Capabilities

Reliable Global Connectivity at an Affordable Price

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.

RDT China-Suzhou and DC-Belgium

WAN optimization for Peak Throughput

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.

Self-healing by Design for 24×7 Operation

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.

Cloud-Native Software for Faster Innovation and Lower Costs

Cato PoPs run our cloud-native software, a fully multitenant and scalable stack that performs all core networking and security functions — the route calculation, policy-enforcement, and security inspection. The software runs on off-the-shelf servers capable of breakthrough performance previously only possible with custom hardware. Eliminating proprietary appliances transforms the technical, operational, and cost characteristics of a legacy products. Full ownership of the software leads to faster innovation enabling Cato to rapidly respond to customer’s features requests, quickly resolve service issues, and reduce operational costs.

Built-in End-to-End Encryption and Security

Cato SASE Cloud Platform ensures robust security with AES-256 encrypted tunnels securing all communications between PoPs, Cato Sockets, and Cato Clients. Only authorized sites and mobile users can connect to the cloud, reducing the attack surface. Advanced anti-DDoS measures provide additional protection to safeguard the PoP’s external IP addresses. Cato’s commitment to security is reinforced by multiple privacy and security certifications, ensuring the service meets the industry’s most stringent requirements.

The Strategic Benefits of a True SASE Platform

Architected from the ground up as a true cloud-native SASE platform, all Cato’s security capabilities, today and in the future, leverage the global distribution, massive scalability, advanced resiliency, autonomous life cycle management, and consistent management model of the Cato platform.

Consistent Policy Enforcement

Cato extends all security capabilities globally to deliver consistent policy enforcement everywhere and to everyone, from the largest datacenters down to a single user device.

Scalable and Resilient Protection

Cato scales to inspect multi-gig traffic streams with full TLS decryption and across all security capabilities, and can automatically recover from service component failures to ensure continuous security protection.

Autonomous Life Cycle Management

Cato ensures the SASE cloud platform maintains optimal security posture, 99.999% service availability, and low-latency security processing for all users and locations, without any customer involvement.

Single Pane of Glass

Cato provides a single pane of glass to consistently manage all security and networking capabilities including configuration, analytics, troubleshooting, and incident detection and response. Unified management model eases new capabilities adoption by IT and the business.

“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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