Gartner’s 9 Criteria For SD-WAN Selection: A Cato Response

What criteria will you use when evaluating SD-WANs? A recent Gartner report has the answer – and a whole lot more. We found their advice so valuable that we summarized the report and provided in-depth responses to their criteria.

To learn more, download the paper, “Gartner’s Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of SD-WAN Technology: A Cato Perspective.”

Selecting a new SD-WAN is the most critical step for many companies in their WAN transformation journey. It will determine how efficiently and effectively your company can address the global health crisis or the next digital transformation project. This paper should go a long way towards helping you make the best decision for your organization.

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The paper explains

  • The critical points of the Gartner report – just in case you missed them
  • Where SASE fits into Gartner’s SD-WAN deployment models
  • The Cato architecture and its key components
  • How Cato addresses Gartner’s nine criteria for selecting SD-WAN
  • The biggest SD-WAN challenges – you won’t want to miss this one!
  • Recommend reading to continue learning about SASE and Cato.
Shamus McGillicuddy
From: "Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2019,” Andrew Lerner and Danellie Young, 9 July 2019
“Relying on incremental network updates and technology refresh cycles will no longer be sufficient to keep pace as enterprises digitally transform. Instead, I&O leaders must adopt new network technologies and network processes and evolve their culture to support their business in the digital era,”


Yishay Yovel
Yishay Yovel
VP Marketing, Cato Networks

Yishay is VP Marketing at Cato Networks. Yishay has over 25 years of experience in defining and deploying enterprise IT software solutions in the areas of security, storage, business continuity and mobile computing.

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Not sure where to start your SD-WAN selection? Gartner recently identified 9 key criteria. Here’s our response.

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Cato Networks provides the leading MPLS alternative, which includes a global private backbone of 50+ PoPs, WAN optimization, enhanced cloud/SaaS connectivity, Firewall as a Service, and world-class support.

Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network resources, including branch locations, mobile workforce, and physical and cloud datacenters, into a global, secure, managed SD-WAN service. With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a suite of security services to protect all traffic at all times. 


Gartner Inc., The Future of Network Security Is in the Cloud, 30 August 2019, G00441737

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