C A S E S T U DY | G L O B A L S AT E L L I T E P R OV I D E RGlobal Satellite Provider
Secure SD-WAN Case Study
INDUSTRY

Everything integrated in a single platform

Satellite Services Provider

Company Profile

CHALLENGES

A U.S.-based global satellite provider manages a constellation• Need for a fully integrated solution
in a single platform.
• Flexibility and the speed ofdelivery.
• Broadband, MPLS, LTE, routing, SDWAN, security and satellite-specificfeatures such as TCP-optimization.

RESULTS• Single platform soultion• Fully-managed “white-labelled”
service.
• 200Mbps and 1Gbps bandwidth
services to match their current “flex”
underlay service.

of satellites and a global terrestrial network connecting several
hundred earth stations in hundreds of countries, serving manymarkets—aviation, government, telcos, maritime, media—as awholesale provider with other satellite providers and regional
telcos leveraging their capacity and global footprint.

Challenges
The company started investigating an SD-WAN solution in2019 and completed a certain amount of testing with Nuage,
Silverpeak and several other vendors. In 2020, the company
formalized its approach in an RFP to vendors and SIs, shortlisted
two vendors for a POC (Versa and Silverpeak), and decided on
the Versa solution.

Solution Highlights: Versa Secure SD-WAN
The company favored the Versa solution due to its full integration,• Branch platforms delivering carriergrade reliability, enterprise-graderouting, SD-WAN, and security.

flexibility and the speed of delivery and deployment that it• Riverbed VNF on the uCPE/
CSG1000 platform.

routing, SD-WAN, security and satellite-specific features such as

enables. The Versa Secure SD-WAN integrates all of the key
features the company required, including broadband, MPLS, LTE,
TCP-optimization, all on a single platform, while all other solutions
they considered required multiple boxes.
The Versa SD-WAN solution being deployed in this phase includes:• A fully-managed “white-labelled” service covering:» Shared head-end hosting, and later moving to AWS
hosting» Branch on-boarding» Branch monitoring» Residential engineering services» Training services• 200Mbps and 1Gbps bandwidth services to match theircurrent “flex” underlay services

C A S E S T U DY | G L O B A L S AT E L L I T E P R OV I D E R• CSG300 and CSG700 branch platforms delivering carrier-grade reliability, enterprise-grade routing, SD-WAN, andsecurity with a diverse set of WAN and wireless access technologies• Riverbed VNF on the uCPE/CSG1000 platform

Results
The company is looking to deploy several thousand branches over the next five years, and is launching the service inearly 2021 with one of the largest banks in Africa.

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