SD-WAN edge company. Viptela’s orchestration platform (vManage) was built to be a comprehensive but easy to use tool and provides more familiar functions (Command Line interface, granular configuration, and SLA control) to network engineers when compared to some other early entrants to the SD-WAN market.

Viptela was acquired by Cisco in 2017 and Cisco has undergone a process of supporting the Viptela software on their ISR platform. As of this writing Cisco still offers Viptela native hardware.

vSmart is used to authenticate vEdges (Viptela hardware + software) for provisioning or now cEdges (Cisco ISRs running Viptela software).

Requires network engineering expertise and/or assistance from Cisco engineers for set-up.

Very flexible but not as simple as some other platforms that are GUI only.

More info: Managed Firewall Services