{"id":1779,"date":"2019-02-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecommerce.tmcnet.com\/cato_networks_proves_quality_interops_with_ringcentral\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:29:54","slug":"cato-networks-proves-quality-interops-with-ringcentral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/cato-networks-proves-quality-interops-with-ringcentral.html","title":{"rendered":"Cato Networks Proves Quality, Interops with RingCentral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SD-WAN solution from Cato Networks has been\u00a0certified as a connectivity partner by RingCentral and in recent testing has shown to achieve\u00a0a MOS score of 3.8 or greater &#8211; even with 15 percent or more packet loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany enterprises are deploying SD-WAN, as a leading technology to assure highest-levels of quality of service and availability,\u201d said Curtis Peterson, senior vice president, cloud operations, RingCentral. \u201cAs part of our partner certification process, we tested Cato\u2019s ability to deliver high-quality voice even under extremely poor network conditions. We found that Cato was able to accommodate more than 15 percent packet loss and still maintain a high-level of voice quality, which is a significant achievement in providing superior customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is important as it gives potential customers a performance score which can be used when comparing vendors. In reality, the more networks powering an SD-WAN solution, the more packet loss and latency a well-designed SD-WAN\u00a0solution can handle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/cato%20networks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2019\/02\/cato networks-thumb-500x261-16779.jpg\" alt=\"cato networks.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cato Networks connects all branch locations and the mobile workforce into RingCentral datacenters with a global, secure, and optimized cloud-native network. RingCentral access is optimized by:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"c18 lst-kix_list_1-0 start\">\n<li class=\"c7 c21\"><span class=\"c20 c4\">Minimizing latency\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c8 c4\">by carrying cloud communications traffic across Cato\u2019s optimized and managed global network, not the public Internet, directly into the same physical data centers shared with RingCentral.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c7 c21\"><span class=\"c20 c4\">Preventing congestion and last-mile packet loss\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c4\">that undermines voice quality with sophisticated upstream and downstream Quality of Service (QoS), traffic prioritization, and Policy-based Routing (PBR).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c7 c21\"><span class=\"c20 c4\">Compensating for brownouts and avoiding blackouts\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c4\">in the last mile with Active\/Active Protection and Packet Loss Mitigation techniques.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c7 c21\"><span class=\"c20 c4\">Securing users\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c8 c4\">and the corporate network against network-based attacks without the need for additional appliances or security services.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdwanexpo.com\">SD-WAN Expo<\/a>\u00a0(part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsupershow.com\">TechSuperShow<\/a> in South Florida last month, it became apparent that SD-WAN is at an inflection point. More companies, MSPs and resellers than ever showed up to learn about how to purchase and resell\u00a0this leading-edge technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/itexpo%202019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2019\/02\/itexpo 2019-thumb-500x375-16777.jpg\" alt=\"itexpo 2019.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This announcement\u00a0from Cato and RingCentral is good from the standpoint that it puts a benchmark on the board for customers to use as a baseline for comparison when choosing a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SD-WAN solution from Cato Networks has been\u00a0certified as a connectivity partner by RingCentral and in recent testing has shown to achieve\u00a0a MOS score of 3.8 or greater &#8211; even with 15 percent or more packet loss. \u201cMany enterprises are deploying SD-WAN, as a leading technology to assure highest-levels of quality of service and availability,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":1829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,199,164,189,118,177,191,192],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}