Exploring the Extensive Potential of Network Control
Versa Networks' Secure SD-WAN is revolutionizing the way businesses approach networking, offering a software-defined, scalable overlay network with integrated security. This innovative solution combines routing, SD-WAN, and security functions on a single device, providing a unified SASE software platform that automates and orchestrates WAN edge functions.
Cost Efficiency
Versa SD-WAN reduces costs by using broadband internet links instead of expensive MPLS circuits, cutting WAN expenses significantly (often 40–60% savings), while MPLS incurs high recurring costs for guaranteed circuit performance. Versa's software-driven model also reduces hardware and maintenance costs compared to legacy MPLS infrastructure.
Flexibility and Agility
Versa’s software-defined architecture offers centralized control, rapid provisioning, and dynamic path selection, enabling easy scaling and adaptation to new branch or cloud environments. In contrast, MPLS networks are rigid, requiring manual configuration and longer lead times for new sites or capacity changes.
Performance
Secure SD-WAN solutions like Versa optimize traffic by path selection and application-aware routing, maintaining uptime by seamlessly switching paths if MPLS circuits fail, ensuring consistent QoS. MPLS provides stable, predictable performance with guaranteed SLAs but lacks this dynamic traffic steering flexibility and can suffer disruptions during link failures until manual rerouting occurs.
Advanced Security Features
Versa Secure SD-WAN integrates advanced built-in security including NGFW, microsegmentation, East-West traffic visibility, device fingerprinting, and Zero Trust policies directly in the network fabric, offering stronger, granular security controls across wired, wireless, and IoT devices. MPLS offers a private network but lacks integrated security features, often requiring additional security appliances or overlays, increasing complexity and potential attack surfaces.
Ease of Deployment
Versa SD-WAN provides zero-touch provisioning and centralized management, facilitating rapid deployment and simplified branch onboarding, reducing the need for on-site expertise. MPLS deployments involve lengthy provisioning times, physical circuit installation, and higher coordination overhead with service providers, making rollout slower and less agile.
Scalability and Multi-Cloud Extensibility
Versa's Secure SD-WAN offers multi-cloud extensibility, enabling direct cloud and branch office connectivity using commodity Internet links. This makes it an ideal solution for work-from-anywhere deployments, providing robust and scalable solutions with advanced routing, scalable LTE and Wi-Fi.
Integration with Third-Party Security Functions
The unified software platform integrates with leading third-party security functions such as anti-virus/antimalware, firewall, IPS/IDS, carrier-grade NAT, DLP, ZTNA, and more, offering a comprehensive solution that combines network and security.
In summary, Versa’s Secure SD-WAN outperforms traditional MPLS in cost efficiency, agility, embedded security, and ease of deployment, while MPLS offers predictable performance with guaranteed SLAs but at a higher cost and lower flexibility. Organizations needing scalable, secure connectivity for dynamic enterprise environments favor Secure SD-WAN, whereas MPLS remains relevant where strict SLAs and private circuit guarantees are mandatory.
Data-and-cloud-computing technology is significantly transformed with Versa Networks' Secure SD-WAN, offering a software-defined, scalable overlay network that incorporates technology for routing, SD-WAN, and security functions on a single device. This results in a unified SASE software platform that automates and orchestrates WAN edge functions, providing cost efficiency, flexibility, agility, advanced security features, ease of deployment, scalability, and multi-cloud extensibility.
Versa SD-WAN takes advantage of technology by using broadband internet links instead of expensive MPLS circuits, leading to a reduction in network costs compared to traditional MPLS infrastructure, making it a cost-efficient solution for businesses.
