| Capabilities | Description | Versa Networks | Legacy Solutions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built-in security everywhere | Built-in NGFW, IPS/IDS, ATP and ZTNA across WAN, LAN, Data Center and the Cloud to deliver consistent security everywhere. | ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
| AI-Driven Automation | Leverage AI/ML to continuously monitor link performance, detect anomalies, and automatically reroute traffic to help IT teams scale operations. | ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
| Identity & App-aware Control | Dynamically apply policies based on user, device and application identity and behavior—enabling fine-grained control and adaptive trust models. | ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
| Full-stack Visibility | End-to-end observability into application performance, user experience, threat activity, and network health with a single dashboard to reduce MTTR. | ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
| Integrated 5G & IoT | Secure, high-performance connectivity over broadband, 5G, LTE, and LEO/MEO/GEO satellite constellations. | ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
| Open & Extensible | Seamlessly integrate with existing IT ecosystems via open APIs, webhook triggers, and rich telemetry; easy connections to SIEM, ITSM, and observability tools. | ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
| Resiliency & Self-Healing | Fast failover, forward-error correction, and packet duplication to maintain performance even when links degrade. | ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
| Unified Policies | Define policies once and enforce them consistently across WAN, cloud, and remote users (aligns with SASE & Zero Trust). | ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
| Traffic Intelligence | Dynamically select the best transport—MPLS, broadband, LTE, or satellite—based on cost, SLA, and performance metrics. | ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
Versa Secure SD-WAN goes beyond traditional link steering to converge networking and security into a single, intelligent platform with built-in security controls, AI-driven automation, and identity-aware policies
Ensure SLAs with dynamic, policy-based path selection across MPLS, Internet, 4G/5G, and satellite links with advanced traffic conditioning like FEC, packet replication, and packet striping.
Protect your WAN Edge from sophisticated attacks with integrated world class NGFW, IDS/IPS, advanced threat protection and IoT visibility and control.
Effortlessly manage and scale your network infrastructure through streamlined deployment, centralized management, and automation.
Colt chooses Versa for its “carrier-class, flexible and agile” Secure SD-WAN.
Mirko Voltolini, VP of Technology,
Verizon chooses Versa because it “has the built-in services and features [they] need to operate at carrier-grade quality.
Shawn Hakl, Vice President,
Orange picks Versa because “it’s an innovative approach in the NFV market” Secure SD-WAN.
Sylvain Desbureaux, Network Expert,Versa Networks, the leader in Secure SD-WAN, combines full-featured SD-WAN, complete integrated security, advanced scalable routing, genuine multi-tenancy, and sophisticated analytics to meet WAN Edge requirements for small to extremely large enterprises and Service Providers.
Eliminate the challenges of manual operations, packet-based traffic forwarding and point products for security and WAN optimization with Versa Secure SD-WAN that consolidates all these capabilities at the edge while enabling deployment at scale.
Yes, Versa Secure SD-WAN’s centralized management, API-driven automation and AI-enabled automation simplifies day 0 to day n operations, enabling IT teams to deploy, provision and manage branches across 1000’s of sites within weeks instead of years.
Yes, Versa Secure SD-WAN is offered as a uCPE capable of running VNFs to be operated within the SD-WAN appliance.
In addition to integrated security, capabilities like 5G/LTE, switching and PoE are delivered built-in with Versa Secure SD-WAN appliance.
Versa Secure SD-WAN offers multi-tenancy at data, control and management level all the way to branch SD-WAN appliance.
Yes, Versa offers Secure Service Edge (SSE) that enables IT leaders to seamlessly connect their SD-WAN branches to SSE point of presence (PoP) globally. Versa Secure SD-WAN also offers integration with SSE solutions like Microsoft and Zscaler to help customer choose the security offerings of their choice.
