SD-WAN Reduced Network Access Costs, Increased Cross-Site Access to Applications Cohen began looking at an SD-WAN approach for several reasons. “I wanted a flexible, virtual network because I knew we would be adding offices and making other changes in the near future,” he says. “We weren’t locked into long-term contracts for the MPLS circuits, and this gave us the ability to lower our costs by installing broadband circuits in their place.” The cost of bandwidth – either MPLS or broadband – is considerably higher in Latin America than in other places. Anything CIAL could do to reduce costs would be helpful. “Having one major datacenter in the middle of Latin America didn’t seem like a particularly good approach. That’s why we started thinking about SD-WAN.” CIAL Alliance Tests Cato Soon after Cohen began his research on SD-WAN solutions, he read an article about Cato Networks and reached out to learn more. He liked what he heard and signed CIAL on as a Cato Networks customer. It was a successful rollout, We worked with a network engineer from Cato who was critical to our ability to build the connections we needed.” And while he’s been able to reduce costs, cost reductions have not been the only benefit with Cato: We’re getting far more for the money. Connecting our locations and the cloud, having the TLS inspection, having the antivirus at the network level — there’s a lot of value,” CIAL Dun & Bradstreet ended up with connections to the Dun & Bradstreet global data supply chain via VPN tunnels to various enterprise datacenters, tunnels to instances in Amazon AWS, along with the individual sites. Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next Case Studies - Banking/Credit union & Financial Services 12