Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Peplink SpeedFusion both offer robust networking solutions but cater to different needs. Users are generally more satisfied with Peplink SpeedFusion's performance and reliability, while Cato SASE Cloud Platform is praised for its comprehensive security features.
Features: Cato SASE Cloud Platform offers secure internet access, enhanced network visibility, and extensive security measures. Peplink SpeedFusion provides bonding technology that combines multiple WAN connections, higher bandwidth, and increased reliability. Both products provide unique features, but Peplink's ability to combine connections offers better performance.
Room for Improvement: Cato SASE Cloud Platform needs to improve scalability, reduce latency, and address configuration complexities. Peplink SpeedFusion should enhance its management system, provide better integration capabilities, and make the interface more intuitive. Peplink focuses on usability enhancements.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cato SASE Cloud Platform is straightforward to set up but requires technical knowledge for optimal configuration. Peplink SpeedFusion offers a simpler plug-and-play deployment model suitable for less technical users. Both have good customer service, but Peplink's simpler deployment favors smaller or less technical teams.
Pricing and ROI: Cato SASE Cloud Platform has a higher initial setup cost with significant long-term ROI due to security features. Peplink SpeedFusion offers competitive pricing and quicker ROI with its bonding technology and simpler deployment. Peplink's pricing is more accessible, appealing to budget-conscious buyers.
Cato Networks is a leading SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform, combining SD-WAN and network security to obtain a cloud-native service. Cato Networks optimizes and secures application access for users and identities. The platform delivers a next-generation secure networking architecture that minimizes legacy IT infrastructures’ complexity, costs, and risks. The goal of Cato Suite is to connect any user to any application securely and optimally.
Cato Suite runs on a private global network of more than 65 PoPs (points of presence) connected via SLA-backed network providers. The service can connect branches, data centers, users, and clouds. Cato can be deployed in stages to augment legacy network services.
Cato Suite delivers end-to-end route optimization for WAN and cloud traffic. The architecture is self-healing, enabling a high service uptime.
Cato Features
Cato Cloud has a global backbone to deliver a reliable, global network. Here are some key SD-WAN features of Cato Cloud.
What challenges does Cato Network solve?
MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) networks are usually expensive and limited in their capacity. Cato simplifies migrating to a faster, higher-capacity internet and SASE cloud. Cato SD-WAN appliances enable customers to improve usable capacity and resiliency.
Customers who suffer from the challenge of high latency and network inconsistency can use Cato to deliver a consistent connection and user experience to access on-premises and cloud applications.
Cato’s complete network security stack connects all branch locations to the Cato cloud, therefore protecting all traffic, both internet-bound and WAN, with enterprise-grade, cloud-based security services. This capability avoids having to backhaul internet traffic to a data center or hub or having to implement stand-alone cloud security solutions.
Organizations using Cato notice an acceleration of cloud traffic. Cato achieves this by routing all traffic from the edges to the PoP closest to the data center. Because of the close distance between the two, the latency is near zero.
Reviews from Real Users
An IT manager/project coordinator at a healthcare company says that “[Cato is] a cloud-based solution that integrates well with everything. They are the classic SaaS solution.”
Yeong-Gi L., a network engineer at Snetsystems, notes that “The solution is very stable. The scalability is quite good. Technical support was always helpful and responsive. The integration capabilities are not a problem at all.”
"The most valuable feature is that it also works as a next-gen firewall because it has security features," says Lorenzo S., senior solutions consultant Lead at MDI.
Peplink’s patent-pending SpeedFusion technology powers enterprise VPNs that tap into the bandwidth of up to 13 low-cost cable, DSL, 3G/4G/LTE, and other links connected anywhere on your corporate or institutional WAN. Whether you’re transferring a few documents or driving realtime POS data, video feeds, and VoIP conversations, SpeedFusion pumps all your data down a single fat datapipe that’s budget-friendly, ultra-fast, and easily configurable to suit any networking environment.
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