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No. 1 · Score 98.1
Cato Networks
Cloud-native SASE / SD-WAN provider · Typical deployment: hours · mid pricing tier
Scored as easiest-to-use platform by Netify for the third year running, Cato offer a converged cloud-native SASE platform and is typically shortlisted by businesses needing to consolidate appliances or have limited in-house expertise to manage a SASE solution.
No. 2 · Score 94.4
AT&T Business
Global carrier managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: months · premium pricing tier
AT&T bring a large carrier-scale managed SD-WAN portfolio, and the multi-vendor platform approach (including Fortinet for AT&T SASE) means buyers aren't locked into a single underlying technology. Typically shortlisted by US-headquartered and multinational businesses looking for a carrier with both the scale to manage a complex global estate and the flexibility to support more than one platform.
No. 3 · Score 94.4
BT Business / BT Global
Global/UK managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: weeks · mid pricing tier
BT are the UK market leader for managed SD-WAN, and the main reason for that position is access circuit ownership: BT can manage the underlay and the overlay as a single service, which removes one of the most common pain points in managed SD-WAN deployments. Typically shortlisted by UK-headquartered businesses looking for a single accountable supplier across connectivity, platform and operations.
No. 4 · Score 94.4
Comcast Business / Masergy
Managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: weeks · mid pricing tier
Comcast Business bring the Masergy AIOps heritage into a fully managed or co-managed SASE service combining SD-WAN and security, and that operational intelligence tooling is a genuine differentiator rather than a marketing addition. Typically shortlisted by mid-to-large enterprises where AI-driven operations and strong service visibility are weighted criteria alongside the core SASE capability.
No. 5 · Score 94.4
NTT DATA / NTT Ltd.
Global managed network provider · Typical deployment: months · premium pricing tier
NTT deliver managed SD-WAN via a network of global operations centres running 24x7, which means the follow-the-sun support model is genuinely backed up rather than just described in a service document. Typically shortlisted by multinational businesses with complex, multi-region estates where around-the-clock managed operations and strong portal transparency are non-negotiable requirements.
No. 6 · Score 94.4
Orange Business
Global managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: months · premium pricing tier
Orange Business offer global managed network leadership with NOC depth and field operations that few competitors can match on a like-for-like basis, particularly across European and African markets. Typically shortlisted by organisations with a strong international footprint looking for a managed provider whose service assurance credentials are well-evidenced rather than just claimed.
No. 7 · Score 94.4
Telefónica Tech
Global managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: months · mid pricing tier
Telefónica Tech deliver managed SD-WAN via their flexWAN programme alongside a Cisco-based converged SD-WAN, security and SASE service, with particularly strong positioning across Spain, Latin America and parts of Europe. Typically shortlisted by businesses with a footprint in those regions or with existing Telefónica carrier relationships looking to extend into managed SD-WAN and SASE.
No. 8 · Score 94.4
Verizon Business
Global carrier managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: months · premium pricing tier
Verizon bring carrier-scale managed SASE and SD-WAN with a strong North American presence and international delivery capability that extends well beyond the US. Typically shortlisted alongside AT&T for large enterprise and multinational deployments, the choice between the two often coming down to existing carrier relationships and where the majority of sites are located.
No. 9 · Score 93.1
Colt Technology Services
Enterprise managed SD-WAN / connectivity provider · Typical deployment: months · mid pricing tier
Colt offer SD-WAN and SASE with a European data sovereignty positioning that's hard to match from a carrier without Colt's owned fibre network across European business districts. Typically shortlisted by EU-headquartered organisations or those with compliance requirements around in-region data processing, where sovereignty isn't just a preference but a hard procurement filter.
No. 10 · Score 91.9
Aryaka
Managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: days · mid pricing tier
Aryaka deliver Unified SASE as a fully managed service end to end, and unlike most managed providers, they own the private global core network rather than relying on public internet paths for the underlay. Typically shortlisted by businesses needing a single end-to-end managed provider with a private backbone, particularly where WAN optimisation and fast global deployment are both requirements.
No. 11 · Score 91.3
Versa Networks
SD-WAN / SASE technology vendor · Typical deployment: weeks · mid pricing tier
Versa built multi-tenancy into the platform architecture from day one, which is why they're a common choice for service providers and carriers building their own managed SD-WAN and SASE offerings on top of the Versa technology layer. Typically shortlisted by service providers looking for a technology platform to underpin a managed service, as well as enterprises evaluating Versa direct through a partner.
No. 12 · Score 90.4
GTT
Global managed SD-WAN provider · Typical deployment: months · value pricing tier
GTT own a Tier 1 global backbone, which is the foundation for their managed SD-WAN positioning and gives strong international transit capability as a result. Typically shortlisted by organisations with a multinational estate where backbone ownership and international performance are scoring criteria, though it's worth confirming during evaluation how much of the delivery for your specific footprint runs over the GTT network versus public internet paths.
No. 13 · Score 89.8
Vodafone Business
Global managed SD-WAN provider · Typical deployment: months · mid pricing tier
Vodafone Business offer managed SD-WAN with integrated mobile and fixed access in a single service, which isn't something every managed provider can deliver natively, and removes a separate contract and point of accountability for organisations running a mixed estate. Typically shortlisted by UK and European businesses looking for a managed provider with strong NaaS credentials and a genuine mobile-plus-fixed story.
No. 14 · Score 89.5
Palo Alto Networks
SD-WAN / SASE technology vendor · Typical deployment: weeks · premium pricing tier
Palo Alto Networks offer Prisma SASE, converging SD-WAN, cloud-delivered security and digital experience management (ADEM) under a single platform identity, with security depth that goes well beyond most SD-WAN-first platforms. Typically shortlisted by organisations where security capability and application performance visibility are both weighted heavily, rather than those primarily looking to replace an MPLS estate.
No. 15 · Score 88.9
Fortinet
Secure SD-WAN / SASE technology vendor · Typical deployment: days · value pricing tier
Fortinet run FortiOS across FortiGate edge, FortiManager and FortiSASE, meaning networking and security policy are converged on a single operating system rather than integrated via API across separate components. Typically shortlisted by organisations already standardised on Fortinet hardware at the edge, or those looking for a vendor where the convergence story is backed up by a common OS rather than a marketing claim.
No. 16 · Score 88.5
Lumen
Managed SD-WAN / NaaS provider · Typical deployment: months · premium pricing tier
Lumen offer fully managed or co-managed SD-WAN with NaaS positioning and integrated network services, framing the proposition as a longer-term network programme rather than a point SD-WAN deployment. Typically shortlisted by organisations thinking about longer-term infrastructure strategy rather than a tactical overlay, particularly where integrating a broader set of network services under a single provider is part of the requirement.
No. 17 · Score 88.3
Cisco
SD-WAN / SASE technology vendor · Typical deployment: weeks · mid pricing tier
Cisco offer the broadest platform portfolio in the category: Catalyst SD-WAN for enterprise WAN, Meraki MX for cloud-managed branch environments, and Cisco Secure Access for converged SASE delivery. Typically shortlisted by organisations with existing Cisco investments looking to extend rather than replace, though buyers should be specific about which Cisco platform they're evaluating as the architectures and operational models differ considerably.
Hughes have a background in satellite and large-scale retail deployment that means the operational model is genuinely built for distributed organisations with site counts in the hundreds or thousands. Typically shortlisted by businesses running a large estate of smaller sites, rather than a smaller number of complex locations, where that specific operational specialism matters more than the likes of SASE security depth.
No. 19 · Score 85.7
HPE Aruba Networking
SD-WAN / SSE / branch technology vendor · Typical deployment: days · mid pricing tier
HPE Aruba Networking offer EdgeConnect SD-WAN (brought in with the Silver Peak acquisition) as the foundation for single-vendor SASE alongside Aruba SSE, with a strong branch networking heritage and deployment speed of days that's competitive for a platform of this capability breadth. Typically shortlisted by businesses already in the HPE ecosystem or those looking for a single-vendor SASE story built on an established SD-WAN platform.
No. 20 · Score 84.5
Arista / VeloCloud
SD-WAN technology vendor · Typical deployment: days · mid pricing tier
Arista acquired VeloCloud in 2025, bringing its strong cloud-delivered gateway architecture into the Arista portfolio, though the long-term product direction is worth clarifying with the vendor directly given how recent the acquisition is. Typically shortlisted by organisations already familiar with VeloCloud's architecture or those evaluating how VeloCloud capabilities will integrate with Arista's EOS and CloudVision portfolio going forward.
No. 21 · Score 81.4
Forcepoint
Security / secure SD-WAN vendor · Typical deployment: days · mid pricing tier
Forcepoint offer FlexEdge Secure SD-WAN combining secure SD-WAN with DLP and data security capability drawn from the wider Forcepoint portfolio, and for organisations where DLP is a hard procurement requirement rather than an optional extra, that combination is meaningful. Typically shortlisted specifically for data security depth rather than as a general-purpose SD-WAN evaluation.
No. 22 · Score 78.3
Cloudflare One
SASE / Zero Trust / network services · Typical deployment: hours · value pricing tier
Cloudflare One provide one of the largest PoP footprints in the category for SASE traffic via the Cloudflare global edge network, with deployment in hours reflecting a lightweight, agentless onboarding model. Typically shortlisted by organisations prioritising Zero Trust network access and cloud-first security rather than branch WAN replacement: the platform scores more strongly on SSE and ZTNA than on traditional SD-WAN appliance functionality.
Netskope are widely recognised as a leading SSE vendor, particularly for SaaS-heavy environments, with CASB heritage that few competitors match. Typically shortlisted as the security component in a best-of-breed SASE architecture alongside a separate SD-WAN platform, rather than as a single-vendor SD-WAN replacement. The shortlist score reflects SSE depth rather than SD-WAN breadth, which is consistent with how Netskope is most commonly deployed.
Zscaler are the category leader in SSE, with ZIA covering secure internet access, ZPA handling private application access, and ZDX providing digital experience monitoring. Typically shortlisted as the security layer in best-of-breed SASE architectures, often evaluated alongside a separate SD-WAN platform rather than as a converged single-vendor option. For organisations already invested in Zscaler for SSE, ZDX's experience monitoring is often the deciding factor on whether to extend the investment.
No. 25 · Score 74.9
Juniper Networks
AI-driven WAN / SD-branch technology vendor · Typical deployment: days · mid pricing tier
Juniper Networks offer Mist AI with WAN Assurance, delivering AI-driven monitoring and troubleshooting at the WAN edge at a depth that few competitors match. Typically shortlisted by organisations where AIOps and network assurance quality are weighted evaluation criteria rather than SD-WAN feature breadth, and worth examining more closely than the overall score might suggest if AI-driven operations is a primary requirement.
Check Point offer Harmony SASE, combining the established Check Point security heritage with cloud-delivered SASE and SD-WAN performance optimisation. Typically shortlisted by organisations already standardised on Check Point security looking to extend toward SASE rather than replace the security stack, where adding WAN capability whilst avoiding disruption to existing security policy is the priority.
No. 27 · Score 74.1
SonicWall
SMB / mid-market firewall-led SD-WAN vendor · Typical deployment: days · budget pricing tier
SonicWall deliver SD-WAN via existing TZ, NSa and SM firewall appliances, which is a real advantage for organisations already standardised on SonicWall and a less compelling proposition for those that aren't. Typically shortlisted by SMB and mid-market businesses with an existing SonicWall estate looking to add SD-WAN capability without the cost and complexity of introducing new hardware.
No. 28 · Score 74
Cradlepoint / Ericsson
Wireless WAN / SD-WAN adjacent vendor · Typical deployment: days · value pricing tier
Cradlepoint, now part of Ericsson, offer a wireless-first branch architecture with deep 5G expertise, with NetCloud providing cellular-centric SD-WAN management and the Ericsson acquisition adding carrier-grade credentials. Typically shortlisted by businesses where fixed-line connectivity is unavailable, unreliable or not preferred, and where cellular primary or failover is a hard requirement rather than an edge case.
No. 29 · Score 66.4
FatPipe Networks
SD-WAN technology vendor · Typical deployment: days · budget pricing tier
FatPipe bring long heritage in WAN optimisation, dynamic load balancing and MPSec encryption, pre-dating the SASE category and focused on those specific capabilities rather than a full SASE security stack. Typically shortlisted by organisations with particular multi-path WAN optimisation or encryption requirements where that established specialism matters more than broader SASE convergence.
No. 30 · Score 64.5
Peplink
SD-WAN / cellular-first technology vendor · Typical deployment: days · budget pricing tier
Peplink offer SpeedFusion bonding technology, genuinely differentiated for sites needing to combine the likes of multiple cellular, broadband or satellite links into a single resilient connection. Typically shortlisted for remote, mobile or hard-to-reach sites where link bonding and cellular resilience are the primary requirements, and where Peplink often outperforms higher-scoring vendors on the criteria that actually matter for that use case.
Scores are weighted across 40 capabilities with points accrued based on: yes 1.0, via partner 0.75, via managed service 0.65, partial 0.5, not confirmed 0.15, not primary 0. Extended dimensions are indicative desk research; confirm via RFP.
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