We had a proof-of-concept stage, during which I was able to set up an o昀케ce myself,” says Azikov. “I just had to ask some questions about the best way to do certain things. After the 昀椀rst, I could set up locations without even thinking about it.” Connecting a location to Cato is just a matter of installing a simple preconfigured Cato Socket appliance, which links automatically to the nearest of Cato’s more than 65 globally dispersed PoPs. At the local PoP, Cato provides an onramp to its global backbone and security services. The backbone is not only privately managed for zero packet loss and 5 9’s uptime, it also has built in WAN optimization to dramatically improve throughput. Cato monitors network traffic and selects the optimum path for each packet across the Cato backbone. Mobile users run across the same backbone, benefiting from the same optimization features and improving remote access performance. Once we had it all connected on a single Cato network, everything was so easy and reliable. We can get by on 25 Mbits/s, but 50 made working very comfortable, and Cato’s QOS made for very smooth video. For the central o昀케ce, Azikov went for 75 Mbits/s.” Installing the Cato solution was incredibly fast and easy. “We had a proof-of-concept stage, during which I was able to set up an office myself,” says Azikov. “I just had to ask some questions about the best way to do certain things. After the first, I could set up locations without even thinking about it.” It didn’t take long to set up all 33 locations with 50 Mbits/s Cato connectivity. “Once we had it all connected on a single Cato network, everything was so easy and reliable,” says Azikov. “We can get by on 25 Mbits/s, but 50 made working very comfortable, and Cato’s QOS made for very smooth video. For the central office, Azikov went for 75 Mbits/s Cato Brings Security, Reliability, and Easy Management Azikov loves the simplicity and reliability of the Cato solution. “Cato’s centralized management saves tons of time,” says Azikov. “We troubleshoot issues so much faster. When you have everything in one place you can just switch back and forth and analyze different pieces of the puzzle. IT really ticks all the boxes for us.” Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next Case Studies - Healthcare 9