The CSG Family of Appliances
CSG300 series appliances are ideal for customers deploying Versa SASE in small Enterprise branch and home office sites. CSG300 series platforms are ideal choices for deployment in home offices in today’s COVID pandemic days that require users to work from home.
The versatile CSG300 series appliances deliver carrier-grade reliability, with enterprise-grade routing, industry-leading SD-WAN and Next-Generation Firewall all while supporting a diverse set of WAN access technologies (MPLS, Broadband) and wireless LAN & WAN access technologies (3G, 4G-LTE, LTE Advanced). CSG300 series appliances scale SD-WAN performance up to 500 Mbps and up to 125 users.
Versa CSG700 series appliances are designed for deployment in mid-to large Enterprise branches delivering industry’s richest set of networking functions. The versatile CSG700 series appliances deliver carrier-grade reliability, with enterprise-grade routing, industry-leading SD-WAN and next-generation security all while supporting a diverse set of WAN access technologies (MPLS and broadband), wireless WAN access technologies (3G, 4G-LTE, LTE Advanced) and non-Ethernet connectivity options including A/ VDSL2 and T1/E1.
CSG700 appliances are designed to be FIPS compliant in the core hardware. The CSG700 series appliances come with very high MTBF numbers thanks to its fan-less and specialized design. CSG700 series appliances scale SASE performance up to 2 Gbps and up to 350 users.
CSG1000 series appliances are designed for Enterprises with high performance branch, campus, and data center WAN Edge requirements. Our premium suite of appliances, the high performance CSG1000 series deliver carrier-grade reliability, high performance and high compute capacity for enterprise-grade routing, industry-leading SD-WAN, next-generation security and uCPE use-cases.
The CSG1000 series come with 16 high-performance LAN and WAN interfaces out of which 8 are 10GE and 8 are 1GE interfaces. Also supported are Ethernet and non-Ethernet (ie: ADSL2+/VDSL2, T1E1) NIC options as well as wireless (3G, 4G-LTE, LTE Advanced-Pro, 5G, WiFi AP) options. CSG1000 appliances scale SASE performance up to 14 Gbps and up to 2,000 users.
Versa CSG700 and CSG1000 series appliances can be equipped with factory-installed (internal) enterprise-grade 5G modules that deliver the highest level of performance. Versa’s 5G module supports FR1, aka sub-6, mode of operation and associated frequencies to provide a consistent, flexible, and optimized WAN connection. Versa CSG’s 5G Module-based WAN links have the flexibility to be leveraged as both a primary link or a backup link.
As with all the components of Versa’s portfolio of solutions, the embedded 5G Module functionality is centrally managed and controlled by Versa Director with network and device analytics provided through Versa Analytics.