Versa Networks Supports Make in India Initiative with Jabil

Versa Networks, a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) company, has announced its partnership with global manufacturing solutions provider Jabil to manufacture its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) appliances in support of the national Make in India initiative.

SD-WAN is a connection between local area networks (LANs) separated by a substantial distance, anything from a few miles to thousands of miles. The term software-defined implies the WAN is programmatically configured and managed.

Make in India initiative was launched by the Prime Minister in September 2014 as part of a wider set of nation-building initiatives. It is devised to transform India into a global design and manufacturing hub.

The initiative seeks to position the country as a nation of innovation and aims to provide more job opportunities to the Indian community as the technology landscape in the country continues to evolve. As part of the initiative global companies are incentivized to move or open-up part of their product manufacturing locally in India.

Versa Networks’ Secure SD-WAN simplifies the IT infrastructure control and management by delivering a virtual WAN architecture that securely connects users to their applications.

An SD-WAN solution includes a controller and a branch device that is operated from the data centre or cloud where the controller is deployed.

Meanwhile, Jabil is focused on the manufacturing of the branch devices specifically universal branch CPE (customer premise equipment) appliances that hosts Secure SD-WAN software and support third-party.

“The recent explosion in cloud, virtualisation, IoT, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, has caused a dramatic rise in the amount of traffic and data passing through enterprise WANs, resulting in a number of networking challenges for organisations,” Sunil Naik, operations director, Jabil, said.

The production will begin in August net year and three product lines has been produced so far.