| 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.
Keep your sites, remote users, and cloud workloads connected - no matter the transport, location, or provider. Versa SD-WAN intelligently leverages any available WAN link (MPLS, Internet, Broadband, LTE/5G, Satellite) in active-active or active-standby for seamless uptime, load balancing, and automatic failover.
More than a decade after early SD-WAN deployments, many organizations are stuck with platforms that can’t keep up with cloud growth, Zero Trust requirements, 5G, satellite, or IoT. In this on-demand session, Versa experts reveal the 10 signs it’s time to replace legacy SD-WAN and how to migrate without disruption.
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.
