How the Internet Is Slowing Down
 Your Business

(and What You Can Do About It)

How the Internet Is Slowing Down Your Business

(and What You Can Do About It)

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Welcome to the New Perimeter As global travelers from previous centuries depended on the shifting winds of the open seas, so do modern travelers of the World Wide Web depend on the shifting conditions (latency, jitter and packet loss) of the public internet.

What Does This Mean Exactly? We all use Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to connect from home, and these ISPs are our gateway to the internet. The same applies to the connections we find in offices, coffee shops, airports, and many other locations.

This “last mile” connection between our devices and the ISP is typically reliable and fast thanks to developments such as fiber and 5G, with little service degradation if at all. Once we try to get onto the other side of our ISP and into the open web, however, performance issues begin to crop up.

ISPs are typically regional services that cover a certain city or other defined region. The way our ISP connects us to remote cities and regions is by handing off our traffic to another ISP, and then possibly to another one, and another, and so on until we reach the ISP that connects us to our destination (website, SaaS application, data center, etc.).

ISPs do not provide performance guarantees or SLAs once they send our traffic to the internet. Their service is on a best-effort basis. In practice, this means that with every additional ISP along the way to our destination, our traffic quality degrades and becomes increasingly unreliable and slower, as shown in figure 1.

Performance Degradation Over Public Internet

Application Performance Degrades as Data Traverses the Public Internet

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Figure 1 - Performance degradation over the public internet

~60%

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From Traditional Virtual Desktop to Secure Enterprise Browser  AIOps is the intelligent operations engine within Check Point Events, delivering real-time visibili

ty, anomaly detection, contextual insights, and proactive alerts across security gateways and servers

. This solution monitors infr

astructure health, including key KPIs like CPU and memory utilization. Built for proactive defense, AIOps helps security and operations teams identify problems before they escalate - and resolve them faster with AI-driven guidance. The result is 80% less downtime, 40% fewer support tickets, and faster time to resolution.   We all use Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to connect from home, and these ISPs are our gateway to

the internet. The same applies to the connections we find in offices, coffee shops, airports, and many

other locations.

This "last mile" connection between our devices and the ISP is typically reliable and fast thanks to

developments such as fiber and 5G, with little service degradation if at all. Once we try to get onto the

other side of our ISP and into the open web, however, performance issues begin to crop up.

ISPs are typically regional services that cover a certain city or other defined region. The way our ISP

connects us to remote cities and regions is by handing off our traffic to another ISP, and then possibly

to another one, and another, and so on until we reach the ISP that connects us to our destination

(website, SaaS application, data center, etc.).

ISPs do not provide performance guarantees or SLAs once they send our traffic to the internet. Their

service is on a best-effort basis. In practice, this means that with every additional ISP along the way to

our destination, our traffic quality degrades and becomes increasingly unreliable and slower, as

shown in figure 1.

Figure 1 - Performance degradation over the public internet

Performance Degradation Over Public Internet Application Performance Degrades as Data Traverses the Public Internet

Latency (Delay)

Jitter (Variation)

Packet Loss

Throughput

Availability

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20%

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Performance (Quality)

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Why Should You Care? A slow and unreliable network can significantly degrade application responsiveness. This negativelyimpacts your employees, suppliers, and customers’ user experience in many ways. Accessing email, collaborating on joint projects, retrieving customer support information, accessing company repositories (e.g., source code), and communicating via chat are just a few examples of applications that can experience slowdowns. Network performance is vital to your business, and when it slows down, your business is soon to follow.

Getting on the Fast Track So, how do you take control of your network and overcome the performance pitfalls of the public internet? That is where the global private backbone underlying Check Point SASE comes in. Our backbone consists of 85+ globally distributed data centers, or Points of Presence (PoPs). The “last mile” of this connection works similarly to the one described above with local ISPs.

The next stage is where Check Point sets itself apart. Instead of relying on a complex chain of handoffs, we route your company’s traffic to its destination quickly and efficiently on our dedicated private network. Our networks leverage high-quality Tier-1 trunks. We also maintain plenty of reserved bandwidth and offer quick connectivity to any Point of Presence (PoP) or cloud data center globally (for more details, check out Figure #2). The result is performance that outstrips what you can get from forwarding traffic into the unknown of the public internet.

Remote
 User

On-Device Protection

Private
 Access

SaaS
 Security

Internet
 Access

Cloud
 Workloads

SaaS

Web

SD-WAN SD-WAN

Offices On-Prem
 Datacenter

Figure 2

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Why Should You Care? A slow and unreliable network can significantly degrade application responsiveness. This

negativelyimpacts your employees, suppliers, and customers' user experience in many ways.

Accessing email, collaborating on joint projects, retrieving customer support information, accessing

company repositories (e.g., source code), and communicating via chat are just a few examples of

applications that can experience slowdowns. Network performance is vital to your business, and

when it slows down, your business is soon to follow.

Getting on the Fast Track So, how do you take control of your network and overcome the performance pitfalls of the public

internet? That is where the global private backbone underlying Check Point SASE comes in. Our

backbone consists of 85+ globally distributed data centers, or Points of Presence (PoPs). The "last

mile" of this connection works similarly to the one described above with local ISPs.

The next stage is where Check Point sets itself apart. Instead of relying on a complex chain of

handoffs, we route your company's traffic to its destination quickly and efficiently on our dedicated

private network. Our networks leverage high-quality Tier-1 trunks. We also maintain plenty of

reserved bandwidth and offer quick connectivity to any Point of Presence (PoP) or cloud data center

globally (for more details, check out Figure #2). The result is performance that outstrips what you can

get from forwarding traffic into the unknown of the public internet.

SD-WAN SD-WAN

Offices

Cloud Workloads

On-Prem Datacenter

Private Access SaaS Security Internet Access

Figure 2

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Check Point’s private backbone is equivalent to a super-fast highway with reserved lanes for maximum traffic flow. A typical public internet connection, meanwhile, is like driving on a single-lane, congested country road cluttered with traffic signs, railroad crossings, and potholes. The global private backbone connects all users, everywere, to the applications and resources they need whether they are on-premises or in the cloud. It ensures high- performance connectivity that delivers superb user experience, enhanced productivity, and improved business flow.

Long Distance Is Long Gone No matter where your users connect from, a Check Point SASE PoP is available nearby to give them the experience of a “local” connection. The backbone then optimizes the rest of the connection path to its final destination, minimizing latency and delivering on the promise of a true global village.

Serve and Protect Delivering a fast network is important, but it is only half the story. Businesses also need to secure their networks to make sure bad actors cannot penetrate and compromise them. With cyber-attacks constantly expanding, both in volume and sophistication, organizations must take the right measures to protect their users and data.

Check Point SASE is a game-changing solution that delivers 10x faster internet security combined with full mesh Zero Trust Access and optimized SD-WAN performance—all with an emphasis on ease-of-use and streamlined management. Using Check Point SASE, businesses can build a secure corporate network over a private global backbone in less than an hour. The service is managed by a unified console and backed by an award- winning global support team that has you covered 24/7. Check Point SASE helps organizations of all sizes secure their workspaces with a suite of products covering network security across browsers, devices, and cloud.

To learn more, visit https://sase.checkpoint.com

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Long Distance Is Long Gone No matter where your users connect from, a Check Point SASE PoP is available nearby to give them

the experience of a "local" connection. The backbone then optimizes the rest of the connection path to

its final destination, minimizing latency and delivering on the promise of a true global village.

Check Point's private backbone is equivalent to a super-fast highway with reserved lanes for

maximum traffic flow. A typical public internet connection, meanwhile, is like driving on a single-lane,

congested country road cluttered with traffic signs, railroad crossings, and potholes. The global

private backbone connects all users, everywere, to the applications and resources they need whether

they are on-premises or in the cloud. It ensures high- performance connectivity that delivers superb

user experience, enhanced productivity, and improved business flow.

Serve and Protect Delivering a fast network is important, but it is only half the story. Businesses also need to secure

their networks to make sure bad actors cannot penetrate and compromise them. With cyber-attacks

constantly expanding, both in volume and sophistication, organizations must take the right measures

to protect their users and data.

Check Point SASE is a game-changing solution that delivers 10x faster internet security combined

with full mesh Zero Trust Access and optimized SD-WAN performance-all with an emphasis on

ease-of-use and streamlined management. Using Check Point SASE, businesses can build a secure

corporate network over a private global backbone in less than an hour. The service is managed by a

unified console and backed by an award- winning global support team that has you covered 24/7.

Check Point SASE helps organizations of all sizes secure their workspaces with a suite of products

covering network security across browsers, devices, and cloud.

To learn more, visit https://sase.checkpoint.com

5 Shlomo Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv 6789159, Israel  |  Tel: +972-3-753-4599

s 100 Oracle Parkway, Suite 800, Redwood City, CA 94065  |  Tel: 1-800-429-439

Worldwide Headquarters

U.S. Headquarter

1 www.checkpoint.com

https://sase.checkpoint.com/demo