CASE STUDY | SUN PHARMA

Global Pharmaceutical Company
Secure SD-WAN Case Study
INDUSTRY

Integrated Security; Superior Path Selection; Simplicity; Better TCO

Pharmaceutical and Biotech

Company ProfileCHALLENGES

A Global-200 company that manufactures pharmaceutical and biotechnology• Existing devices were approaching
end-of-life support.

products for world-wide distribution based in India. The company employs
tens of thousands of people and operates in more than 20 countries.

• The company’s network andsecurity needs have outgrown their
existing branch architecture.

The company has over 200 sites comprising office locations, sales offices,• New business requirements
demand a much more agile andflexible branch platform.

service providers including Sify, Tata Communications and Airtel.

• Need for software-definedsolutions that provide a digitallyconnected and secured edge.
• Enable internal customers to reap
the benefits of a business-driven
digital transformation to cloud-first
products and strategies.

RESULTS• TCO savings by consolidating
SD-WAN routing and security
capabilities into a single platform.
• Cloud-first architecture.
• SASE-ready architecture.
• Agile and flexible enough to enable
all of the company’s stated networkand business evolution goals.

warehouses and manufacturing plants. Existing sites use Cisco routers withsecurity added on by Fortinet products. The current network uses a variety of

The company’s network refresh was motivated primarily by several
challenges:• Existing devices were approaching end-of-life support.
• The company’s network and security needs have outgrown their existing
branch architecture.
• New business requirements demand a much more agile and flexible
branch platform.
Additionally, the company looks forward to taking advantage of industrytrends and architectural evolutions such as:• Software-defined solutions that provide a digitally connected andsecured edge.
• Enabling internal customers to reap the benefits of a business-driven
digital transformation to cloud-first products and strategies to:» Enable seamless and secure connectivity to cloud partners.
» Provide cloud-hosted, software-defined orchestration tools foronboarding.
» Improved tools for configuration, management, and monitoring
branches.
» Provide secure, direct, and optimal connectivity to North American
locations.
» Align with the company’s internally approved architectural principles.
» Unify branch routing and security into an integrated intelligent-andsecure fabric.
The company evaluated several proposed solutions from Cisco, Viptela andFortinet.

CASE STUDY | SUN PHARMASolution Highlights: Versa Secure SD-WAN
Several key technical decision points contributed to the company choosing a Versa SD-WAN solution, including:• A single, flexible platform that fully integrates WAN, routing and security capabilities.
• NSS Labs product certifications.
• A SASE-ready architecture.
• Integration with Riverbed products.
• Support for varying network architectures including partial and full mesh.
• Support for dynamic site-to-site encrypted connectivity.
• Support for advanced L7 application-based awareness for traffic routing and steering.
• Support for a vast array of dynamic and custom path-selection policies and features.
• Support for IP filtering and actions using external 3rd-party and customer-managed dynamic lists, geolocation,reputation scoring, and user-defined allow– and deny–lists.
• Support for identity-aware URL filtering and actions using category, reputation scoring, captive portal, externallymanaged dynamic lists, and allow– and deny–lists.
In addition, several key business decision points were equally important to the company’s choice, including:• The simplicity of the solution.
• Fully integrated security in a single platform.
• Gartner’s ranking of Versa in its “Leader’s Quadrant”.

Results
The Versa solution clearly demonstrates technical superiority to the company, and immediately resulted in TCO savingsby consolidating SD-WAN and security into a single platform. The solution enables a cloud-first architecture, provides
SASE and is agile and flexible enough to enable all of the company’s stated network and business evolution goals.

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