Versa Networks announced
that the MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept
(PoC) Showcase Q1 2021 demonstration it participated in - "Secured Work from Anywhere using SASE
Service and Lean NFV" - won the MEF 3.0 PoC Business Impact Award from MEF
earlier this month.
The MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept Showcase Q1 2021 awards recognize
leadership and innovation in support of the MEF 3.0 Global Services Framework
and the broader industry. According to MEF, the Business Impact Award
recognizes the most significant potential impact on the service provider's
business. The MEF 3.0 PoC Showcase Awards judging panel included
analysts from Atlantic ACM, AvidThink, Dell'Oro Group, Omdia, TeleGeography,
and Vertical Systems Group.
"This
PoC demonstrates end-to-end SASE service layered on multiple SD-WANs with
distributed security, orchestrated using principles of Lean NFV for greater
openness, agility, disaggregation, and service innovation at the edge. SASE
Service is established, secured, and driven by common policies over customer,
service provider, security cloud, and public cloud domains. As a result, the
end customer receives policy-driven, zero-trust access to multiple public cloud
providers," said Daniel Bar-Lev, VP Strategic Programs, MEF.
Versa SASE delivers tightly
integrated SASE via the cloud,
on-premises, or as a blended combination of both via Versa Operating System
(VOSTM) with a Single-Pass Parallel
Processing architecture. Versa began delivering SASE services such as VPN,
Secure SD-WAN, Edge Compute Protection, NGFW, Next Generation-Firewall as a
Service, SWG, and Zero Trust Network Access 5 years ago. Versa uniquely
provides contextual security based on user, role, device, application,
location, security posture of the device, and content. As
the leader in the rapidly growing SASE market, Versa is the only solution
proven to deliver the industry's leading and differentiated architecture for
high performance and security. Gartner recently identified Versa SASE as
having the most SASE components out of
all 56 vendors Gartner evaluated.
The MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept Program encourages collaborative work
within MEF, where members partner to demonstrate use cases based on current and
developing standards. The showcase featured 18 companies joining forces in
seven demonstrations over seven days.
"Versa Networks has been an active member and contributor to MEF for
years, and we were pleased to participate in the MEF 3.0 PoC Showcase with our
industry-leading SASE technology," said Michael Wood, Chief Marketing
Officer for Versa Networks. "Versa SASE continues to be recognized as the
leading SASE solution for secure networking and remote access, due to its
ability to combine a fully integrated robust set of SASE services within one
operating system software stack using a single-pass parallel processing
architecture. The MEF showcase demonstrated an outstanding level of
collaboration and innovation, and the PoCs showed how MEF 3.0-based SASE, among
other technologies, can be leveraged to transform user experiences."
Competing
solutions to Versa have hidden costs and gaps in security because they require
multiple product, cloud, and service components. Achieving visibility and
control from solutions requiring service chaining to connect multiple
components together proves ineffective, increasing the costs and attack surfaces
for organizations. Versa ACE Partners are uniquely able to offer a cost-effective and
simple-to-quote Versa SASE solution rather than stitching together multiple
vendors to achieve a single SASE solution.
Versa SASE runs on VOS, which is
designed with the Versa Single-Pass Parallel Processing architecture combining
extensive security, advanced networking, industry leading SD-WAN, genuine
multitenancy, and sophisticated analytics into one software image. This
integration and design methodology dramatically decreases latency,
significantly improves performance, and mitigates security vulnerabilities
which other solutions introduce by running multiple software stacks, service
chains, or appliances.