Posts tagged ‘SD-WAN’
The AI Memory Tax Makes uCPE Design Worth a Look
This blog examines the AI-driven memory shortage and its impact on the hardware supply chain, and offers a viewpoint on using this period as an opportunity to evaluate leveraging uCPE to deliver targeted workloads within branch infrastructure as a viable alternative to procuring, placing, and managing another box.
Federal Zero Trust Maturity: Aligning Mission, Security, and Cost
Federal zero trust maturity now depends on more than security controls. Agencies must also cut the cost of fragmented network and security stacks and keep citizen services running. This post explains how device consolidation, a software-defined WAN, and careful sequencing let agencies meet all three goals together.
Beyond Integration: Why a Truly Unified Branch Needs Intelligent Edge, Pervasive Security, and AI-Native Operations
Piecemeal SASE creates security debt. See how Versa unifies pervasive security, intelligent edge, and AI-native operations on one platform.
The Network Is the Platform: Why Convergence at the WAN, LAN, and Security Defines the Next Era of Infrastructure
The network is no longer beneath the platform — it IS the platform. Learn why converging SD-WAN, SD-LAN, and SSE on one stack matters.
Versa and Infoblox: Closing the Gap Between SD-WAN and DDI
SD-WAN and DDI have long operated as disconnected silos — leaving IT teams to manually configure branches, manage failover by hand, and diagnose IP conflicts without unified visibility. The Versa and Infoblox integration changes that with automated, template-driven workflows and built-in resilience.
Designing for Failure: Why DDIL Must Be the Starting Point
DDIL is the expected condition in modern tactical operations. See how multi-transport SD-WAN keeps warfighters connected when links fail.
5G as Primary WAN: Making 5G Enterprise-Ready with Versa Secure SD-WAN
5G as Primary WAN: Making 5G Enterprise-Ready with Versa Secure SD-WAN For years, 5G was treated as a backup connection, the link you activated when the main circuit went down, then ignored until the next outage. That made sense when cellular networks were inconsistent and performance was unpredictable. But that’s no longer today’s reality. 5G has matured into a viable primary WAN technology. The speeds are there. The coverage is there. What’s been missing is the management foundation to run 5G like a primary enterprise WAN connection: unified policy enforcement, multi-carrier flexibility, intelligent traffic steering, and end-to-end visibility. That changes…
Resiliency Is the New SLA: Why AI Demands an Always-On Intelligent Edge
For decades, we’ve measured the network in terms of uptime percentages and bandwidth tiers. In the AI era, those metrics are no longer enough. Resiliency, which is the ability to deliver uninterrupted, any-directional, application-aware connectivity in the face of unpredictable AI workloads, is the new SLA.
Versa SASE Fabric
The Versa SASE Fabric, a part of the Versa Secure Access Fabric, is an interconnected, policy-aware, distributed system where networking, security, identity, analytics, and orchestration operate as a single unified platform. Learn why it’s based on an optimal architecture and what sets it apart.
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Enabling CSPs with Extreme Agility: Versa and Netcracker – MEF19 Multi-Vendor Innovation Award
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
November 26, 2019
Versa and Netcracker have won the MEF19 award for innovative multi-vendor solutions. The MEF19 Technology Solution – Multi-Vendor Innovation Award recognizes two or more companies for industry leadership and innovation in providing a comprehensive network technology solution that supports orchestration of dynamic and assured services over automated and virtual networks. Netcracker and Versa have created a joint SD-WAN business cloud solution that enables CSPs to significantly differentiate their offerings and create business advantage with value-added third-party services, a new digital user experience and extreme agility. The entire solution is available from Netcracker’s Data Centers as a fully hosted and managed…
Product & Engineering
Versa Networks and SP Partners Enable a Digital User Experience with MEF SD-WAN Standard
By Neil Danilowicz
Principal Architect
October 25, 2019
Versa Networks believes that working with standards bodies like the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and Open Networking User Group (ONUG) not only improve the industry but also make market solutions better. By collaborating with different companies and individuals from all parts of the industry (consumers, Service Providers and vendors), Versa Networks has a better understanding of the needs, challenges and vision that the SD-WAN community have, which help us to provide more innovative products while conforming to a standard that the service provider or consumer can trust. Every cloud security or SD-WAN service is different and currently there is no…
Industry Insights
Enterprises Need to Keep Edge Networks Safe
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
October 6, 2019
With enterprises investing heavily to transform themselves digitally, the threat environment has in many respects intensified and diversified. Enterprises pursuing a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud strategy, or relying on a software-as-a-service model to give remote workers access to critical applications, perhaps via a mobile device, will be potentially exposing themselves to new threat vectors that must be built into an already long list of security considerations for WAN edge optimization. As enterprises look for ways to accelerate their digital transformation journeys and to achieve greater business agility, they must match that by transforming their wide-area network to be more software-driven….
Industry Insights
How Sassy is your SD-WAN – Winning the Next WAN Edge Cycle
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
September 4, 2019
The new Gartner Networking Hype Cycle for 2019 is out (stay calm!) and there is one very clear message for network professionals implementing a SD-WAN strategy: first the good news, you’re now entering the nirvana phase of the cycle, i.e., the Slope of Enlightenment (congratulations!), which means SD-WAN is approaching a maximum period of benefits for the next 2-5 years; however, the bad news is that if you haven’t evaluated the “sassy” potential of your SD-WAN, then you may be headed for a premature derailment in the Trough of Disillusionment! When I say “sassy” I’m not referring to your teenager’s…
Industry Insights
Best Practices for the Enterprise (Part 1)
By Neil Danilowicz
Principal Architect
August 16, 2019
Welcome to my Enterprise Best Practices Blog. My name is Neil Danilowicz, and I am a Principal Architect for Versa Networks. Over the next few months, I will delve into best practices for Enterprises as they begin their journey into Software Defined Networking, especially Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN). Today, security is a boardroom topic and on the forefront of every large enterprise. From the recent security breaches at Yahoo, Target, and Equifax, there is broad awareness of how a slip in security can damage the brand and tarnish what took years to build. With digital transformation, embracing multi-cloud/SaaS…
Industry Insights
Sophisticated Path Selection Capabilities Underpin SD-WAN Performance
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
August 13, 2019
SD-WAN has many capabilities that address the challenges associated with complex network edge infrastructure. Specifically, central configuration and management, zero-touch branch deployment, and automatic monitoring and path selection. SD-WAN’s ability to optimize pathways for different traffic types is a key advantage, which benefits IT with greater efficiencies, and unprecedented WAN flexibility, availability, reliability and performance. Today’s advanced cloud-managed SD-WAN solutions give enterprises the ability to dynamically connect branch offices, on-premises data centers, public/private cloud and SaaS, on a global scale. Removed are the carrier dependencies and resource restrictions that used to limit the way enterprises consume applications. Leveraging multiple links…
Product & Engineering
Security is the Great Differentiator to a Successful SD-WAN Solution
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
July 22, 2019
NSS Labs recently conducted its 2019 security-enabled SD-WAN 2.0 group test. Versa is one of only two SD-WAN vendors, out of 10 tested, that received the “Recommended” rating. The test findings accentuated Versa Networks’ ability to deliver an exceptional user experience and low total cost of ownership with security enabled. Leveraging unbiased data to establish verifiable vendor differentiation is critical to the NSS Labs test criteria. Within the crowded SD-WAN vendor landscape, to affirm their vendor selection, customers put a premium on real-world and impartial testing, based on empirical evidence. NSS Labs structured the security-enabled SD-WAN test according to three…
Product & Engineering
SD-Branch Configuration: Manage Template Automation, Not CLI Boxes
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
May 20, 2019
When networks become steeped in complexity, as they are with legacy WANs, the last thing companies need is more manual processes. Tedious and monotonous configurations, and the lifecycle management of many single-function devices, are time-consuming and costly. This burden not only adds potential risk due to human error, but complicates network operations, managing bandwidth, local breakouts, QoS policies and deployment timeframes. These factors, among others, are driving the need for network virtualization, automation and software that manages network infrastructure based on business policies to accommodate digital transformation initiatives. An effective way to simplify tedious network configuration tasks and avoid unnecessary…
Industry Insights
How Application Aware Routing Creates Business Intelligent WANs
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
May 2, 2019
A fundamental transformation is occurring with the management and control of applications, as network edges become software-defined, which goes far beyond today’s destination-based routing. Significant advantages can be achieved using cloud-native SD-WANs to bring greater levels of application intelligence to business connectivity. Application-aware routing understands the paths applications need to take and provides greater management and control to deliver a quality user experience. Rather than focusing on just the network destination, and the complexities of their underpinnings, the emphasis is placed upon the applicationexperience need. Application-aware routing supports the business intent and context of how applications are used and need…
Product & Engineering
Cloud-Managed, Software-Defined Infrastructure Key to scaling SD-WAN and SD-Security
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
April 18, 2019
According to the Avant Communications 2019 Cloud Channel Survey, conducted by Edge Strategies, having next generation cloud services in the solution providers’ portfolio seem to enable them to sell more data and voice services. The top four services that Avant’s Channel Partners expect to sell in two years are Data Networks (39%), UCaaS (67%), SD-WAN (61%) and Security-as-a-Service (45%) – with 5G and Managed IOT emerging as areas to watch for in the future. The intersection of cloud, SD-WAN and SD-Security among high growth solution providers, gives great context to the release of Versa Titan by Versa Networks. Versa Titan…
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2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms
Versa has for the fourth consecutive year been recognized in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms1 and is one of only 12 vendors that met the criteria for inclusion based on the analysts’ evaluation of the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform.