Versa Networks
announced the granting of its 15th patent related to its Versa SASE offering
delivered via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both. The
latest patents, issued last month, represent continued security, SD-WAN,
bandwidth management, and high availability differentiation and innovation to
deliver the most consistent and high-performing user experience for secure
access to applications anywhere in the world.
U.S. Patent #10,972,387 is the 15th SASE patent issued to Versa
and improves superior application performance for SASE deployments using unique
application link scoring mechanisms based on network profiles. Applications are
directed to the most appropriate connection delivering the highest performance
while maintaining strict security protection.
Versa was also granted U.S. Patent #10,972,337 last month, which delivers
differentiated protections against network shutdown and provides a consistent
high availability (HA) environment to avoid data corruption or failures from
split brain clustering. Ensuring high availability is more than just a good network
failover strategy; this patent ensures that all corporate services are
available with the least downtime and interruptions, allowing for better
security visibility and control.
Notable prior patents include U.S. Patents #9,231,871 and #9,762,494, which
implement flow distribution tables for exclusive packet flow load balancing
that is critical for cloud and on-premises security and networking
implementations for SASE. These technologies protect the network from being
overloaded by malicious activity such as a Denial of Service (DoS) attack while
simultaneously meeting the most stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements
for all corporate applications.
"Versa Networks provides the most reliable and full-featured SASE services
delivering the best end user experience anywhere in the world, and these
patents allow us to offer unique SASE capabilities to keep up with
organizations' evolving secure connectivity needs," said Apurva Mehta, Versa
co-founder and CTO. "Since Day 1 nearly a decade ago Versa set out to create a
unique and highly differentiated architecture that has remained ahead of the
competition, and today we continue to innovate with an extensive IP portfolio
that meets and exceeds the expectations of our customers, partners and
investors."
SASE demands secure implementation at scale. Previous U.S. Patent
#9,621,460 provides the ability to uniquely scale SASE services by securely
sharing private IP network prefixes and transport IP addresses, which are then
used by the system to reach each location. This technology is designed within
the foundation of Versa SASE and used at scale by Enterprises and Service
Providers around the world.
Versa
SASE delivers tightly integrated SASE services via the
cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both via
Versa Operating System (VOS) with a Single-Pass Parallel
Processing architecture and managed through a single pane of glass. Versa
uniquely provides contextual security based on user, role, device, application,
location, security posture of the device, and content. As
the leader in the fastest growing security and networking category, SASE, and
executing on SASE services for years, Versa is the only solution proven to
deliver the industry's leading and differentiated architecture for high performance
and security. Gartner has identified Versa SASE as
having the most SASE components out of
all 56 vendors Gartner evaluated. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) also found that Versa
SASE has the most SASE supported functions, as published in
its recent industry report.
Versa's differentiated single-pass architecture is recognized by the
U.S. Patent Office for its ground-breaking delivery of SASE services. At the
core of the Versa SASE services is continual innovation to provide more
reliable and optimized networking that delivers a consistent application
experience anywhere in the world. These 15 patents reflect Versa's identity of
product innovation from the inception of the company and demonstrate the
company's leadership in
R&D of SASE services. Additional Versa patents granted related to its SASE services
include:
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U.S. Patent No. 9,477,471: Maintaining lock-free,
high-frequency, high-performance counters in software
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U.S. Patent No. 10,091,078: Method and computing
device for shaping traffic across a wide area network (WAN)
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U.S. Patent No. 10,142,298: Method and system for
protecting data flow between pairs of branch nodes in a software-defined
wide-area network (SD-WAN)
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U.S. Patent No. 10,148,456: Connecting multiple
customer sites over a wide area network (WAN) using an overlay network
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U.S. Patent No. 10,523,556: Method and system for
routing connections in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN)
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U.S. Patent No. 10,523,570: Method and system for
shaping traffic from an egress port in a software-defined wide area network
(SD-WAN)
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U.S. Patent No. 10,693,775: Method and system for
providing automatic router assignment in a virtual environment
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U.S. Patent No. 10,771,382: Method and system for
balancing network load in a virtual environment
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U.S. Patent No. 10,972,379: Application
performance-based path selection
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U.S. Patent No. 10,972,380: Method for configuring a
connection using redundant service nodes
Unlike competing solutions,
Versa SASE was built from the ground up to deliver
a tightly integrated SASE solution within a single software stack managed via a
single interface, eliminating service
chaining, cascading, and virtual interconnect between services, which is
required by competitors.
Competing
solutions have hidden costs and gaps in security because they require multiple
product 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.