Versa Operating System
A Broad Spectrum of Software-Defined Solutions

Overview:

The highly flexible Versa Operating System (VOS) enables businesses, organizations, and service providers to deploy a broad spectrum of software-defined solutions including Secure SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) in branch offices, cloud, campus and data centers. Regardless of where VOS is deployed (on-premises or in the cloud), all network and security capabilities are provisioned and managed centrally through the Versa Director, a single-pane-of-glass management platform. Versa Analytics works in conjunction with Versa Director to provide visibility, base-lining, correlation, and predictive analysis for network, application usage, and security events. With Versa Analytics, all network security, application usage, export reports and logs are analyzed, filtered and are easily searchable for events to derive actionable insights.

VOS is a cloud-native, multitenant, and multi-service software stack with a full set of networking capabilities, including Full-featured SD-WAN and advanced scalable routing, along with a wide range of comprehensive integrated security functions – making it possible to seamlessly design rich managed services and software-defined enterprise architectures that allow for agility.

VOS is purpose-built with enterprise-class carrier-grade operational capabilities, including a distributed control and data plane fabric with built-in elasticity and ondemand capacity. Powerful service chaining for both third-party services, including appliances, enables Enterpirses and service providers to easily integrate advanced network and security functions into any type of infrastructure.

Another key Versa capability for improving operational efficiency and service agility, as well as lowering total costs, is multi-tenancy. VOS has built-in multi-tenancy that enables service for hundreds of customers, segments, and organizations providing deployment flexibility, security, and economies of scale.

VOS is fundamentally different than proprietary and expensive network equipment. Deployed on low-cost x86 architectures and appliances utilizing the latest advances in processors and virtualized infrastructure, VOS radically reduces capital purchases and expensive upgrades/refreshes that are common with legacy network hardware devices.

VOS supports the widest set of deployment options in the industry and can be deployed in both legacy networks, cloud, SASE, and new SDN environments. VOS is designed to run directly on bare metal Versa Cloud Service Gateway (CSG) set of appliances with industry leading features and competitive price points. VOS is also supported to run on certified and preconfigured white box platforms, hypervisor VMs (VMware ESXi, KVM, Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V), and IaaS platforms (Amazon, Google and Microsoft). VOS takes full advantage of multi-core processors and Intel DPDK support for maximum use of the underlying compute resources, thus resulting in high performance and throughput.

VOS is operations-ready and supports standard protocols and log formats, including Syslog, IPFIX, SNMP and Netconf, making it compatible with existing network management, monitoring, and reporting systems. In addition, Versa provides a centralized, automated management platform for device and service workflows, removing laborious manual tasks, and eliminating the need for unnecessary human intervention.

The result is a multi-tenant, cloud-native software services platform that integrates networking and security services in a manner that scales and is on-demand. Versa does this all while maintaining service continuity and delivery of both Versa and third-party network and security functions – all with significantly reduced hardware costs and better.