Cato Neural Edge

Carry SD-WAN beyond the branch.

Cato Neural Edge extends SD-WAN with private-backbone transport after traffic leaves the branch.

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Challenges

Today’s Challenges

Move beyond branch-only SD-WAN.

Public internet paths add latency, loss, and jitter

Reliable global connectivity has meant costly MPLS

Separate branch-by-branch stacks to tune and manage

Performance handoffs across branch, carrier, cloud, and SaaS

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.

Internet unpredictability

MPLS dependence

Branch operations

Performance handoffs

Our approach

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.

How it works

Give global traffic a more predictable path

Intelligence

Performance

Resilience

WAN, cloud-delivered

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

Predictable middle mile

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

Throughput, optimized

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

Service continuity

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

Encrypted access

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

Room to evolve

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

Avoid adding inspection complexity at the branch

Customer Stories

Customers love Cato

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With Cato, we got the functionality of SD-WAN, a global backbone, and security service for our sites and mobile users, integrated together and at a fraction of the cost.

Willem-Jan Herckenrath

Manager ICT, Alewijnse

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Willem-Jan Herckenrath

Manager ICT, Alewijnse

With Cato, we got the functionality of SD-WAN, a global backbone, and security service for our sites and mobile users, integrated together and at a fraction of the cost.

Willem-Jan Herckenrath

Manager ICT, Alewijnse

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Laurent Gaertner

Global Director for Network, Cloud and Hosting, Carlsberg Group

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 Gaertner

Global Director for Network, Cloud and Hosting, Carlsberg Group

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Christophe Augros

CISO, Haulotte

With MDR and Cato, including SD-WAN, the security stack, and remote access, it’s way easier than before… We can do three times the security and network management work with the same resources compared to previous solutions.

Christophe Augros

CISO, Haulotte

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Steve Waibel

Director of IT, Brake Masters

None of our sites have lost complete connectivity since deploying Cato. Sure, there are disruptions in the last mile, but the Cato Socket just moves the traffic over the secondary connection. The users never know the difference.

Steve Waibel

Director of IT, Brake Masters

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Andrew Story

Senior Infrastructure Analyst, James Walker

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.

Andrew Story

Senior Infrastructure Analyst, James Walker

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