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Adding identity attributes to networking policies allows Cato to deliver:

Business process QoS where prioritization is based not just on application type but the specific business process. Business-critical voice calls, such as from executive or sales, can be prioritized over other calls; file transfers, normally given low priority, can be prioritized when involving business-critical processes, such as an engineering team transferring design files for an impending product release.
Highest level of policy abstraction where route policy definition can use familiar groups, such as departments, teams, and usernames. Identity naturally extends network policies to the user regardless of the particular devices being used or the location - whether in the office or on the road. This simplifies network management as policies are easier to define, and fewer policies need be instantiated and maintained.
Business-centric network visibility allows detailed insight into the activity for all business entities - sites, groups, hosts, office users and mobile users. IT can quickly see how business entities use the network to help with network planning and scaling.

Industry Leading SD-WAN Features

Along with identity awareness, Cato is introducing today numerous enhancements and improvements to Cato Cloud's SD-WAN capabilities. New or enhanced features include:

Multi-segment, policy-based routing dynamically selects the optimum path at each segment - the first mile, middle mile, and last mile. Segment-specific protocol acceleration technologies maximize global throughput. Using the robust DPI engine underlying its converged security solution, Cato is able to detect and classify hundreds of SaaS and datacenter applications regardless of port, protocol, or evasive technique and without SSL inspection. Applications are routed based on real-time link quality or preferred transport.
Real-time network analytics expands Cato robust reporting for advanced troubleshooting. IT managers can view throughput, jitter, packet loss, latency, packet discarded, and dropped indicators with graphs for both upstream and downstream traffic as well as the top hosts and applications for real-time and historical traffic.
Affordable and simple high availability (HA) deployment has been expanded to include more HA options. Cato Socket, Cato's SD-WAN appliance, supports a broader mix of active/active and active/passive failover configurations for MPLS and Internet connections. Cato's Affordable HA carries no additional recurring charge and deployment is simple with zero-touch provisioning and needing just a private or public IP address.
Intelligent last-mile resilience has been improved to include flow-by-flow packet duplication and fast packet recovery as part of Cato's Multi-Segment Optimization. Last-mile congestion, a significant cause of packet loss, is also mitigated through advanced QoS support for upstream/downstream bandwidth.
Cloud and WAN traffic optimization using Cato's Multi-Segment Optimization reduces latency by routing traffic along the optimum path to the destination site (WAN traffic) or to the entrance of the cloud service (cloud traffic). A variety of TCP enhancements increase throughput when accessing cloud and WAN resources.