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Versa Unified SASE is a commercial secure access service edge tool by Versa Networks. Lumen SASE is a commercial secure access service edge tool by Lumen Technologies. Compare features, ratings, integrations, and community reviews side by side to find the best secure access service edge fit for your security stack.
CST VerdictBased on our analysis of NIST CSF 2.0 coverage, core features, integrations, company size fit, here is our conclusion:
Mid-market and enterprise teams consolidating SD-WAN with security will find Versa Unified SASE's single-pass architecture worth the operational lift; processing packets once instead of multiple times cuts both latency and the complexity of managing separate appliances. The unified data lake and NIST Detect coverage (continuous monitoring across assets and threat indicators) give you actual visibility into anomalies instead of siloed alerts from firewall, gateway, and access tools. Skip this if your organization needs best-of-breed point solutions in any one category or lacks the network engineering bandwidth to migrate workloads onto a converged platform.
Mid-market and enterprise teams consolidating network and security infrastructure will get the most from Lumen SASE, since the managed service option eliminates the operational overhead of running SD-WAN and firewalling in parallel. The 50+ global edge nodes with high availability backing covers the deployment complexity that kills most SASE rollouts mid-project, and professional management takes the staffing burden off security teams already stretched thin. Skip this if you're a small distributed team needing self-service zero trust without carrier lock-in; the professionally managed model assumes you want Lumen handling the operational toil.
Converged SASE platform combining SD-WAN, SSE, and security functions.
Managed SASE solution combining SD-WAN, NGFW, and SSE capabilities
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Versa Unified SASE: Converged SASE platform combining SD-WAN, SSE, and security functions. built by Versa Networks. headquartered in United States. Core capabilities include Single pane-of-glass management console for unified visibility and control, Single-pass architecture for integrated packet processing, Unified data lake for analytics and threat detection..
Lumen SASE: Managed SASE solution combining SD-WAN, NGFW, and SSE capabilities. built by Lumen Technologies. headquartered in United States. Core capabilities include SD-WAN, Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)..
Both serve the Secure Access Service Edge market but differ in approach, feature depth, and target audience.
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