Case Study: Fisher & Company achieves 80% MPLS cost savings and improved WAN performance with Cato Networks

Fisher & Company Slashes MPLS Costs, Improves WAN Performance with Cato’s Cloud-Based SD-WAN

Fisher & Company, a 1,700-employee manufacturing firm, was struggling with an expensive, complex MPLS estate — paying $27,000/month ($324,000/year), with a 10 Mbps US–Mexico link costing $7,000/month and costly WAN appliances — that created single points of failure and painful, provider-dependent management. After trialing alternatives, Fisher & Company selected Cato Networks’ cloud-based SD-WAN (Cato Cloud) to regain control, simplify operations, and reduce reliance on legacy MPLS architectures.

Cato Networks replaced Fisher’s MPLS with the Cato Cloud, connecting eight locations, mobile users, and an Azure instance over dual-active links and a single management portal; cloud- and Internet-bound traffic is sent directly while enterprise traffic uses Cato’s optimized backbone. The move cut WAN spending to roughly one-fifth of the previous cost (~80% reduction), preserved voice quality, improved application responsiveness (users report faster ERP screen refreshes), increased uptime and resiliency, and delivered current throughput around 44.4 Mbps, while greatly simplifying network management.

Fisher & Company

Kevin McDaid

Systems Manager