Viptela is a new and emerging pure-play SD-WAN vendor based in San Jose, California, and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2015. Viptela provides a multitenancy overlay architecture that is agnostic to WAN transport, and meets all four of Gartner's basic SD-WAN operating requirements. Viptela Secure Extensible Network (SEN) solution architecture is made up of three components: a controller (vSmart), a management system (vManage) and a branch device (vEdge router). The vEdge branch device can be consumed either as hardware or, by early 2016, as software on commodity x86 platforms, and the controller can be consumed as a hosted service or virtual appliance. In addition, the company has also partnered with Zscaler to help deliver secure direct Internet access for branches.
As a new and emerging vendor, Viptela has early market adoption and we estimate that it has approximately 25 paying customers, the largest being retail and financial. However, the vendor is garnering interest and adoption in very large enterprises and in partnerships with service providers, including Verizon and Singtel. To date, Viptela has had success in branch environments where secure segmentation and multitenancy were key drivers. It currently lacks the capability to support legacy WAN interfaces, including T1/E1.
Enterprises with a large number of Ethernet-connected branches should consider this vendor for SD-WAN, particularly if intrabranch segmentation or multitenancy is desired.
As a new and emerging vendor, Viptela has early market adoption and we estimate that it has approximately 25 paying customers, the largest being retail and financial. However, the vendor is garnering interest and adoption in very large enterprises and in partnerships with service providers, including Verizon and Singtel. To date, Viptela has had success in branch environments where secure segmentation and multitenancy were key drivers. It currently lacks the capability to support legacy WAN interfaces, including T1/E1.
Enterprises with a large number of Ethernet-connected branches should consider this vendor for SD-WAN, particularly if intrabranch segmentation or multitenancy is desired.