Versa Networks Recognized as 2018 SD-WAN Company of the Year by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions

Company Receives Highest Ratings for Strategy, Business and Growth

Santa Clara, Calif., May 24, 2018

Versa Networks, a leading innovator of next-generation software-based networking and security solutions, today announced that Quadrant Knowledge Solutions has recognized Versa Networks as the 2018 SD-WAN Company of the Year in its recent study titled “Market Outlook: Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN), 2018-2023.” The report is an in-depth analysis of global SD-WAN vendors based on strategy, business, and growth (SBG) performance and overall industry impact.

Driven by its highly capable Versa Cloud IP Platform, technology innovation, simplification and overall ability to improve the end-to-end operational and user experience across the WAN, Versa Networks received the highest ratings for SBG performance ahead of other SD-WAN vendors, including Cisco (Viptela), Citrix, CloudGenix, Fatpipe, Mushroom Networks, Nuage Networks, Silver Peak, Talari Networks, VeloCloud, and others.

“Quadrant’s team believes that, with the advanced SD-WAN technology coupled with the right competitive and growth strategy, Versa Networks has the potential to cause major disruption in the marketplace,” stated the study. “The company with its advanced SD-WAN, SD-Security and SD-Branch solution is well positioned to help enterprise companies and service providers in achieving significant business advantages by improving network agility and performance, scalability, enhanced security, and reduced overall costs.”

Versa Networks’ key competitive differentiation is the completeness of its Cloud IP Platform to deliver SD-WAN with integrated security to software-define the branch. Its unique value proposition provides a robust and automated solution that offers simplified SD-WAN, application experience routing and integrated next-generation security. All of this is within a single unified software platform offering secure multi-cloud and enterprise branch dynamic connectivity.

“Being recognized as the SD-WAN company of the year echoes our commitment to simplify the operational experience while delivering a transformative and better application end-user experience for our customers worldwide,” said Robert Mustarde, SVP of worldwide sales at Versa Networks. “We are proud to be named the leader in this growing market and look to build upon our momentum with more global deployments through the rest of the year.”

About Versa Networks

Versa Networks, the leader in SASE, combines extensive security, advanced networking, industry leading SD-WAN, genuine multitenancy, and sophisticated analytics via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both to meet SASE requirements for small to extremely large enterprises and Service Providers, and via the simplified Versa Titan cloud service designed for Lean IT. Thousands of customers globally with hundreds of thousands of sites trust Versa with their networks, security, and clouds. Versa Networks is privately held and funded by Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, Artis Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, Princeville Capital, RPS Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners. For more information, visit https://www.versa-networks.com or follow Versa Networks on Twitter @versanetworks.