Since its formation in 2012, Versa has held fast to the belief that SD-WAN and security converge.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Versa invested early in building its security solution, it is the only SD-WAN solution that is NSS labs recommended for SD-WAN<\/a><\/strong>, NGFW<\/a><\/strong> and NG-IPS<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d said Andre Kannemeyer, CTO at Duxbury Networking, distributors of Versa technology.<\/p>\n Versa has earned its stripes in a highly competitive market and carved out a niche for itself in providing SD-WAN solutions for enterprise deployment. Kannemeyer shared Versa\u2019s top capabilities:<\/p>\n Versa is the only Enterprise SD-WAN solution that has unified SD-WAN, NGFW and unified threat management into a single piece of software.<\/p>\n As you transform your global network, this is the opportunity to provide true-segmentation. You can deploy Versa infrastructure (management orchestration, analytics, controllers, hub routers, gateways) and create completely different tenants for business A, business B, guest, etc. spanning your global network.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can even extend this multi-tenancy out to branch network appliances. Each tenant not only gets their own RBAC management, but also their own SD-WAN topology, their own SD-WAN security keys, network policy & security policy. We support up to 512 tenants per Versa head-end, up to Versa delivers an enterprise-class global SD-WAN and global BGP underlay for large enterprises looking to transform a global BGP\/MPLS WAN to SD-WAN. Any Versa node can be used as an \u201cWith Versa you use the same Versa Operating System for all SD-WAN use-cases: work-from-home, branch, HQ, DC, AWS, Azure, Google cloud, low-bandwidth, high-bandwidth, etc.,\u201d says Kannemeyer.<\/p>\n The Versa solution includes robust network analytics (for WAN, LAN, security). Analytics is part of a Versa Secure SD-WAN subscription.<\/p>\n As enterprises look to automate their network, APIs are now table stakes. Versa provides enterprises with API access into every nook and cranny of the Versa solution.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile Versa provides integrated SD-WAN, security and routing, sometimes you must add an additional VNF for certain site types. With Versa uCPE capability, we can load other VNFs or VMs on top of the Versa Operating System. Versa provides VNF service chain management,\u201d says Kannemeyer.<\/p>\n Versa can send critical traffic across multiple WAN transports to make sure it gets to its destination (for example, credit card transactions).<\/p>\n For rural branches or work-from-home use cases with a single \u2018lossy\u2019 broadband connection, this features saves the day for voice and video.<\/p>\n If voice MOS score drops below X, take action Y.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can deploy the Versa solution on Versa-certified network appliances from Versa, Dell and four other white-box vendors (Advantech, Lanner, Caswell, Silicom). All these network appliances ship with Versa Operating System installed and boot-up as a Versa node. Dell offers five different Versa-certified network appliances. You can also deploy Versa Operating System on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and all the popular virtualisation platforms.<\/p>\n This means that there are no new vendor proprietary SD-WAN overlay protocols to learn.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is handy when your service provider \u2018misses\u2019 on providing a circuit for a new site and you have to \u2018make do\u2019 with a handful of LTE radios,\u201d says Kannemeyer.<\/p>\n This allows users to service either Versa HA node without impacting user sessions. As you integrate NGFW into SD-WAN, active\/standby HA is table-stakes. Versa also supports active\/active HA.<\/p>\n For more information contact Duxbury Networking, +27 (0) 11 351 9800, info@duxnet.co.za<\/a><\/strong>, duxbury.co.za<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Versa has earned its stripes in a highly competitive market and carved out a niche for itself in providing SD-WAN solutions for enterprise deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":321531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[14323,26],"class_list":["post-402459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-duxbury-networking","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402461,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402459\/revisions\/402461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
1. SD-WAN solution with integrated security stack (NGFW with unified threat management)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
2. Best-in-class multi-tenancy<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n1 024 VRFs per tenant and five levels of tenancy hierarchy,\u201d says Kannemeyer.<\/p>\n3. Integrated carrier-class routing<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nSD-WAN\/underlay\/MPLS gateway.<\/p>\n4. Same operating system<\/strong><\/h3>\n
5. Robust network analytics<\/strong><\/h3>\n
6. Northbound APIs into every element of the solution<\/strong><\/h3>\n
7. Deploy third-party VNFs on top of Versa<\/strong><\/h3>\n
8. Support for packet cloning<\/strong><\/h3>\n
9. <\/strong>Support for Forward Error Correction (FEC)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
10. Support for SLA based on voice MOS score<\/strong><\/h3>\n
11. Network appliance supplier choice<\/strong><\/h3>\n
12. Versa uses standard BGP for SD-WAN overlay<\/strong><\/h3>\n
13. Support for up to eight WAN transport per network appliance per tenant<\/strong><\/h3>\n
14. Scale the Versa solution to 1000s of network appliances<\/strong><\/h3>\n
15. Support for active\/standby high availability (HA)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
16. Scale to 20 Gbps of encrypted SD-WAN on a single network appliance.<\/strong><\/h3>\n