Versa Networks, the leader in SASE,
today 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:
- U.S. Patent No. 9,477,471: Maintaining lock-free, high-frequency, high-performance counters in software
- U.S. Patent No. 10,091,078: Method and computing device for shaping traffic across a wide area network (WAN)
- 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)
- U.S. Patent No. 10,148,456: Connecting multiple customer sites over a wide area network (WAN) using an overlay network
- U.S. Patent No. 10,523,556: Method and system for routing connections in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN)
- 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)
- U.S. Patent No. 10,693,775: Method and system for providing automatic router assignment in a virtual environment
- U.S. Patent No. 10,771,382: Method and system for balancing network load in a virtual environment
- U.S. Patent No. 10,972,379: Application performance-based path selection
- 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.
