Cybera Injects Cloud Management Into Its SD-WAN Platform

SD-WAN provider Cybera this week added a cloud management system on top of its SD-WAN platform for greater network insights. Cybera has been around since 2001. Its primary offering is a multi-tenant platform, CyberaOne, which is built on an architecture that provides SD-WAN, cloud-based security, and secure application gateway services to customers. Specifically these services include cloud-based firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDP), threat management, log management, remote access service, and secure cloud-to-cloud interconnects. According to Cliff Duffey, the founder and president of Cybera, this architecture is what sets it apart from other SD-WAN providers. “Rather than build one SD-WAN network with application policies applied to a single routing domain, our design is to build multiple SD-WAN segments on a per application basis, each of these with its own unique routing domain,” he said. “By doing this, each individual SD-WAN segment can be dedicated to a certain application and have custom tailored policies that do not conflict with other network segments.” This architecture is also what allows the vendor to serve a specific segment, says Duffey: distributed enterprises with anywhere from hundreds to 10s of thousands of locations that have little to no IT staff.