Cato Networks, provider of the world’s leading single-vendor SASE platform, announced today a new SASE throughput record, achieving 5 Gbps on a single encrypted tunnel with all security inspections enabled. Cato is also introducing cloud cross-connect, enabling high-speed, SLA-backed, direct connectivity from Cato into nearly any cloud provider worldwide. Both capabilities extend SASE to meet the needs of today’s large, cloud-centric enterprises, and both are currently available.
“Once again, Cato has set the mark for SASE at scale,” says Gur Shatz, Co-Founder, President, and COO of Cato Networks. “Pushing the boundary of SASE throughput worldwide is more than an engineering achievement. It demonstrates how quickly a platform with a cloud-native architecture can make new technology globally available.”
Cato set SASE speed record at 5 Gbps throughput
As larger enterprises adopt SASE, higher capacity connections are needed for interconnecting data centers and private clouds. Cato meets that need today with industry-leading support for 5 Gbps throughput on a single, encrypted tunnel regardless of security inspections. Previously, Cato supported a maximum of 3 Gbps per tunnel.
The improved throughput underscores the benefits of a cloud-native architecture. Cato nearly doubled the performance of the Cato Socket, Cato’s edge SD-WAN device, without requiring any hardware changes. This was only possible because Cato runs the compute-intensive operations that normally degrade edge appliance performance – packet encryption/decryption, security inspection, and the like – in the Cato Single Pass Processing Engine (SPACE) running across Cato PoPs.