Case Study: Lambton Area Water Supply System achieves secure cloud migration, faster updates and lower TCO with Versa Networks SASE/SD‑WAN

How a Municipal Water Treatment Plant Successfully and Securely Migrated to the Cloud with Versa Networks SASE/ SD-WAN Titan Solution

The Lambton Area Water Supply System (LAWSS), which serves roughly 120,000 users across nine remote and rural locations in Ontario, faced an aging, radio-based network that left critical water-treatment operations vulnerable to physical threats, contamination risks, and cyberattacks. LAWSS needed a secure, reliable way to migrate control systems and sensitive data to the cloud while maintaining 24x7 service continuity, so it evaluated and selected Versa Networks’ SASE/SD‑WAN solution to modernize its network.

Versa Networks deployed its Versa SD‑WAN/Unified SASE platform (with Experteers supporting POC and rollout), connecting all branches and enabling a secure cloud migration with no service interruptions; the full deployment was completed in less than 30 days. The Versa solution delivered unified networking and security, comprehensive visibility and controls, faster update windows (updates now take about 10 minutes), reduced total cost of ownership, and stronger protection of customer and proprietary data—measurable improvements that kept LAWSS operational and better defended against breaches.

Lambton Area Water Supply System

Albert Veenkamp

Technical Manager