Topcon was struggling to provide fast, secure connectivity to its offices in China. Most of its other locations took advantage of fast MPLS connections, but China’s offices had slower connections that were often problematic. “We started seeing the limitations of MPLS for worldwide deployment and started looking for a next generation network we could deploy everywhere,” says Nakajima. “We needed a simple, fast, secure solution for regions in Asia where MPLS hadn’t yet been established.” Topcon Searches for a Global WAN Solution, Chooses Cato GlobalDots, a global cloud solutions provider, introduced Nakajima to the Cato solution and he was immediately impressed. “I had already been working with a local SD-WAN deployment in my previous job, so I was familiar with the technology. I liked that the Cato SASE could give us the fast connectivity in China and other parts of Asia that we needed while also keeping our communications secure and allowing us to monitor everything properly.” Cato connects all global enterprise network resources — including branch locations, mobile users, and physical and cloud datacenters — into a single secure, global, cloud-native network service. With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a suite of robust security services to protect all traffic, including anti-malware, next-generation firewall, content filtering, and IPS. Connecting a location to Cato is just a matter of installing a simple Cato Socket appliance, which links automatically to the nearest of Cato’s more than 75 globally dispersed Points of Presence (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 five nine’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, improving remote access performance. Nakajima was sold on Cato, but convincing internal management was another story. “We had a lot of conversations in which I had to explain Cato and SD-WAN to management and field staff and assure them that I couldn’t find anything else with all the built-in security and monitoring that Cato had,” says Nakajima. “I made those features the big selling points and got it though the internal approval process.” We had a lot of conversations in which I had to explain Cato and SD-WAN to management and 昀椀eld sta昀昀 and assure them that I couldn’t 昀椀nd anything else with all the built-in security and monitoring that Cato had.” Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next Case Studies - Healthcare 4