Versa Unveils First Unified SASE Gateway Scaling Beyond 100 Gbps
Versa Networks has announced the availability of a new line of Unified SASE gateways delivering 100+ Gbps throughput to meet the growing need for computing scale, driven by the industry’s increased convergence of networking and security. Versa’s new gateways combine high-performance hardware with the Versa Operating System (VOS™), Versa’s converged SASE software stack built on a single-pass architecture. The increased performance delivered by these new gateways enables organizations for the first time to consolidate many networking and security functions into a single gateway.
The SASE market is growing rapidly as enterprises look to support new digital requirements including accelerated cloud adoption, edge computing, increased use of collaboration tools, and a hybrid workforce. According to Dell’Oro Group’s latest SASE and SD-WAN 5-year forecast report, enterprises are anticipated to spend nearly $34B between 2022 and 2027 on single-vendor SASE solutions.
While SASE promises to deliver a unified approach to connectivity and security, these functions have historically been delivered by a fragmented set of point products running on multiple purpose-built appliances. The convergence of these multiple security and network functions into a single application running on a single gateway has been challenging from a throughput and performance perspective, forcing enterprises to make trade-offs between security and network performance/user experience.
Bob Laliberte, Principal Analyst at industry analyst firm Tech Target’s Enterprise Strategy Group, said, “Our research indicates a critical need to consolidate security and network functions to enable digital transformation at the network edge, however, without enough compute this could have a negative impact on user experience. The performance enhancements to Versa’s Unified SASE solution eliminate performance/security trade-offs for organizations and enable a Zero Trust security model to be applied at the edge, ensuring a strong and secure user experience.”
Apurva Mehta, Versa Co-Founder and CTO, said, “The edge is everywhere and the legacy model of appliances and SASE services delivered in a portfolio of point products drives up cost and complexity, without meeting the compute and performance needs of today’s organizations. Our Unified SASE gateways offer a higher magnitude of performance than previously seen in the industry. With our scalable 100 Gbps and beyond SASE architecture, we continue to deliver the highest performance to meet organizations’ most pressing business and technical needs.”
