SD-WAN was a foundation for enterprise edge and VNS, but early deployments were lacking…. Verizon VNS Recap History lesson: about 18 months ago, Appledore profiled Verizon’s initial foray into Virtualized Network Services in our SD-WAN/Enterprise Edge coverage. Back then the aspiration was right, but it looked a lot like SDWAN + maybe a firewall, with many building blocks to be acquired and put in place. Along the way Verizon has addressed many of the shortcomings (or were they “opportunities”?). In particular they beefed up customer self-configuration to go along with self-monitoring in the VNS portal. In our original coverage we called out the industry (not at all unique to Verizon) for a few gaps: Lack of event/performance correlation between overlay and underlay – leaving valuable troubleshooting “cash on the table” A low incidence of SDWAN edges deployed as multi-application (micro cloud) uCPE A dearth of those virtual apps to accompany SDWAN edge and vFirewall Few incidences of on-demand WAN underlay bandwidth (e.g.: burst capabilities) Integration only to an SDWAN secured edge at public cloud – not *into* the public cloud infrastructure itself (therefore allowing orchestration or chaining of platform resources) Now comes the VNS Application Edge. Verizon’s VNS Enterprise Edge […]