CIAL Dun & Bradstreet Improves Networking and Security in Latin American with Cato Affordable MPLS Alternative • Affordable MPLS Alternative The Challenge: Improve the Yoni Cohen, Networking Infrastructure for Chief Technology O昀케cer Latin American O昀케ces About CIAL Dun & Bradstreet CIAL Dun & Bradstreet faced an all too familiar networking problem: integrating disparate operations. “When the acquisition closed, we Headquartered in New York, CIAL Dun & Bradstreet were aware that some of the offices were in need of an upgrade of is a global business data networking infrastructure,” says Yoni Cohen, Chief Technology Officer technology company active for CIAL Dun & Bradstreet. “In some places, the internet wasn’t fast throughout Latin America as enough, and this was a real impediment to business.” well as Tel Aviv and Zagreb. Prior to Cato, the company Centro de Información América Latin (CIAL) Dun & Bradstreet was had an MPLS network that launched when CB Alliance became the WWN Partner of Dun & connected global offices Bradstreet International in Latin America’. CIAL Dun & Bradstreet across eight countries, built is the premier provider of commercial trade credit and supplier risk in part from a key acquisition management data and solutions across Latin America. Offices are in Latin America. There based in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and South Florida, with were four local networks, additional personnel in countries throughout the region. each with ties back to an enterprise data center in the CIAL was charged with creating a new network to unify this new U.S., plus each office was company, and link it to its existing offices, including teams in Zagreb, tied into the global network. Israel, and New York. “We wanted everything to be on one unified but The MPLS circuits routed secure network,” says Cohen. through a datacenter in the US and the other offices had their own setup with VPN connections to the parent. Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next Case Studies - Banking/Credit union & Financial Services 11
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