Case Study: Global Financial Services Firm achieves an automated, secure, and efficient global WAN with Versa Networks

Global Financial Services Firm Reinvents Their WAN With SD-WAN Platform-asa-Service Powered by Versa

Global Financial Services Firm needed to modernize a sprawling, hardware-heavy WAN to support a software-first VNF/SDN strategy. The bank was hampered by disparate devices, poor cloud app performance, bandwidth constraints, fragmented security, lack of application awareness, slow site deployments and no on‑demand capability. To meet these goals they selected an MSP-delivered SD-WAN Platform-as-a-Service built on Versa Networks' Secure Cloud IP platform.

The MSP PaaS powered by Versa Networks deployed Dell uCPEs running Versa VNFs and gave the bank a dual-management model—MSP handles uCPE operations while the firm retains control of Versa Director, orchestration and VNF configuration. This delivered zero-touch automated deployments, application-aware traffic steering, on‑demand connectivity, robust multi-layered security and segmented traffic. As a result, the firm saw improved WAN availability and efficiency, optimized bandwidth utilization, reduced operating costs and complexity, significantly shortened time-to-deploy and upgrades, and greatly enhanced visibility and analytics.