With Cato, he also vastly improved his customer Wi-Fi experience. “Since we moved to Cato, our bandwidth increased by approximately 30 times the speed we had before,” Waibel says. “Now, the customer’s Wi-Fi experience is much better. We’ve stopped receiving complaints since deploying Cato,” Waibel says. The changes in the last mile infrastructure also meant better uptime. “None of our sites have lost complete connectivity since deploying Cato,” he says, “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,” Waibel says. The portal makes it easy to set up a new site, manage a site, and manage firewall rules. “The management portal is well designed. It’s my favorite feature,“ he says, “All the information you need to manage the network is right there.” A case in point is his security infrastructure. Instead of deploying branch security appliances, Waibel relies on Cato security services – NGFW, anti-malware, and Cato IPS. He administers his security rules centrally in the Cato management portal, automatically applying them to the stores everywhere – all without deploying additional security appliances. And when there are problems, Waibel has been able to resolve disruptions far faster with Cato. “We get a view of every single store, and we can tell if there’s a problem at any store,” Waibel says. “Every day, we know exactly what’s going on, and we can address any issues that might be there.” New Network. Great Experience. Instead of stores calling in with problems, Cato automatically notifies Waibel of connectivity issues. “Often, we’re already on top of things when the store becomes aware of the issue,” he says. “With Cato, we’ve become very proactive.” Compared to what we used for six years with MPLS, it’s like night and day. And I would never go back. I would recommend Cato to other companies considering moving to SD- WAN. Opening new stores now goes smoothly, pricing is a昀昀ordable, the cloud 昀椀rewall and private backbone provide a great experience, and services are easy to set up”. Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next Case Studies - Retail 8