Versa Named 2024 Company of the Year in SD-WAN Infrastructure Industry
Versa, the global leader in Universal Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has announced that Frost & Sullivan has named it the 2024 Company of the Year in the Global SD-WAN Infrastructure Industry. The Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Best Practices Award is its top honor and recognizes the market participant that exemplifies visionary innovation, market-leading performance, and unmatched customer care.
Frost & Sullivan applies a rigorous analytical process to evaluate multiple nominees for each award category before determining the final recipient. The process involves a detailed evaluation of best practices criteria across the Visionary Innovation & Performance and Customer Impact dimensions for each nominated company.
According to Leandro Agion, Frost & Sullivan Industry Director, “Frost & Sullivan analysts observe how Versa is properly committed to innovation around the convergence of networking, security, and analytics through a single software operating system. Versa is a much more agile vendor, launching solutions before its competitors; for instance, it recently launched the only SASE solution for SIM cards in the market…Versa offers faster and deeper AI integration than competitors, and, perhaps more importantly, can use a single AI tool to control both networking and security functions.”
Versa Secure SD-WAN is a comprehensive networking solution that provides end-to-end visibility, control, and security by integrating software-defined networking (SDN) and advanced security services into the VersaONE™ Universal SASE platform. Versa has consistently been recognized by leading analyst firms for its innovative and robust solutions, including recently being named as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN for the fifth consecutive year.
Agion further added, “A unique feature of Versa’s SD-WAN solution is that it is fully software-based, whereas most other competitors offer a combination of software and purpose-built hardware. The strength of its solution does not lie in using specific hardware. The solution components are all software; as such, they can coexist with other virtual network functions (VNFs). Compared to competitor approaches, Versa’s software solution offers cost savings and flexibility to enterprise customers.”