Cato Networks on Monday announced 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.
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.
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.
By improving SPACE, all edges connected to the Cato SASE Cloud gain increased throughput. Replacement of the Cato Socket is not required. By contrast, SASE solutions implemented as virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud or modified web proxies remain limited to under 1 Gbps of throughput for a single tunnel. This limitation forces enterprises to have their edge appliance create and manage multiple tunnels and load-balance their traffic between them. An added layer of complexity and risk that does not exist in Cato’s solution.
Cato is also delivering 5 Gbps connections to other cloud providers. The new Cato cross-connect will enable private, high-speed layer-2 connections between Cato and any other cloud provider connecting to the Equinix Cloud Exchange (ECX) or Digital Reality.
Gur Shatz, Co-Founder, President, and COO of Cato Networks
Once again, Cato has set the mark for SASE at scale. 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.
