2025 Showcase
Welcome to the NextGenInfra SASE Showcase! We've captured videos from thought leaders in the carrier ecosystem on the current state of SASE, SD-WAN, ZTNA, multi-cloud networks, and the evolving enterprise network security market. This showcase provides insights into the business and technology drivers impacting enterprise networking.
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2025 SASE Report and Showcase
Welcome to the NextGenInfra SASE Showcase! We've captured videos from thought leaders in the carrier ecosystem on the current state of SASE, SD-WAN, ZTNA, multi-cloud networks, and the evolving enterprise network security market. This showcase provides insights into the business and technology drivers impacting enterprise networking.
Thanks to our sponsors for making the report possible!
Sponsor Spotlight Aryaka
Unified SASE with Dedicated Underlay
Renuka Nadkarni, Chief Product Officer at Aryaka, outlines the company's Unified SASE as-a-Service solution that combines networking and security capabilities for modern distributed environments. The cloud-native platform, built on Aryaka's global backbone network, delivers integrated security features and AI-ready infrastructure while eliminating the need for on-premises hardware.
Sponsor Spotlight BT Business
Next Step for Secure Global Networks
Matt Swinden, MD Digital Connectivity at BT Business, discusses the increasing customer demand for integrated security and network solutions, while highlighting how AI impacts network traffic patterns and bandwidth requirements. He outlines how BT's Global Fabric solution can provide enhanced monitoring with wider reach into data centers and clouds.
Sponsor Spotlight Ericsson
SASE for Next-Gen WWAN
Archana Khetan, SVP of Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions, introduces NetCloud SASE as the industry's only unified single-vendor SASE solution designed for wireless WAN with zero-trust architecture. The solution leverages cellular intelligence, integrated security, and AI-assisted deployment to deliver reliable connectivity and simplified management for enterprise networks.
Sponsor Spotlight Kyndryl
AI Changes the Game for SD-WAN and SASE
Gretchen Tinnerman, GM, US Telco, Media and Technology Market at Kyndryl, discusses how AI enhances operational efficiency in SASE and SD-WAN technologies through improved automation and service delivery. She highlights AI's role in optimizing data processing and routing across cloud environments, enabling organizations to maximize their network infrastructure investments.
Sponsor Spotlight LevelBlue
Security Services at Scale
Bindu Sundaresan, Director, Strategic Solutions at LevelBlue, discusses how organizations are addressing talent gaps through scaled services and managed security while incorporating AI for enhanced detection capabilities. She highlights the evolution of AI from targeted applications to enterprise-wide strategic programs that demand robust governance frameworks.
Sponsor Spotlight MetTel
SD-WAN over Starlink - Satellite Integration Opportunities
MetTel CTO Ed Fox explains how AI integration enhances SD-WAN operations and application control, while highlighting the innovation of combining satellite connectivity with SD-WAN solutions. He also emphasizes the importance of encryption and decentralized identity management for addressing quantum computing threats and securing distributed applications.
Sponsor Spotlight NEC Corporation, Cloudbrink
Building a Virtual Trusted Overlay Network
Osamu Kikuchi, Senior VP, CDO of NEC Networks and System Integration Corporation, and Prakash Mana, CEO of Cloudbrink, examine how CIOs and CTOs are managing rising complexity, costs, and security risks as employees move to remote work environments. The two outline how NEC's Virtual Trusted Overlay Network powered by Cloudbrink creates secure global connectivity.
Sponsor Spotlight VeloCloud by Broadcom
Successful Enterprise GenAI Implementation with VeloRAIN
Sanjay Uppal, SVP & GM, VeloCloud Division at Broadcom, outlines three phases of enterprise networking evolution, highlighting the emergence of AI networking and the unique challenges of generative AI workloads. Sanjay also introduces the VeloRAIN architecture that uses AI-based application identification and Dynamic Application-Based Slicing to enhance network performance for GenAI applications.
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What the 2025 report finds
Across this year's interviews, SASE is converging into unified, single-vendor platforms while AI moves from a talking point to the force reshaping traffic patterns, operations, and the security stack itself.
Convergence into unified, single-vendor SASE
Aryaka and Ericsson both lead with unified, single-vendor SASE that fuses networking and security. Aryaka delivers it as-a-service on its own global backbone, while Ericsson's NetCloud SASE targets wireless WAN with zero-trust built in.
AI reshapes traffic, operations, and performance
BT sees AI changing traffic patterns and bandwidth demand, Kyndryl uses it to automate SASE and SD-WAN operations, and VeloCloud's VeloRAIN applies AI-based app identification and Dynamic Application-Based Slicing to tune the network for GenAI workloads.
Security scales through managed services and governance
LevelBlue addresses talent gaps with scaled and managed security plus AI-driven detection, and stresses that enterprise-wide AI now demands robust governance frameworks rather than one-off tools.
The WAN edge expands to satellite and remote work
MetTel combines Starlink satellite connectivity with SD-WAN, while NEC and Cloudbrink use a Virtual Trusted Overlay Network to give remote workforces secure global connectivity as complexity and cost climb.
Zero trust and future-proofing become table stakes
Zero-trust architecture runs through the Ericsson, NEC/Cloudbrink, and broader SASE narratives, and MetTel points to encryption and decentralized identity management as defenses against emerging quantum computing threats.
Highlights from industry thought leaders
Video interviews
Unified SASE with Dedicated Underlay
- Aryaka pitches Unified SASE-as-a-Service, converging networking and security in one cloud-native platform for distributed environments.
- The platform runs on Aryaka's own global backbone, delivering integrated security and AI-ready infrastructure.
- The as-a-service model removes the need for on-premises hardware.
Abstract
Renuka Nadkarni, Chief Product Officer at Aryaka, outlines the company's Unified SASE as-a-Service solution that combines networking and security capabilities for modern distributed environments. The cloud-native platform, built on Aryaka's global backbone network, delivers integrated security features and AI-ready infrastructure while eliminating the need for on-premises hardware.
Next Step for Secure Global Networks
- Customer demand is shifting toward integrated network-and-security solutions rather than separate stacks.
- AI workloads are reshaping network traffic patterns and driving new bandwidth requirements.
- BT's Global Fabric extends enhanced monitoring with wider reach into data centers and clouds.
Abstract
Matt Swinden, MD Digital Connectivity at BT Business, discusses the increasing customer demand for integrated security and network solutions, while highlighting how AI impacts network traffic patterns and bandwidth requirements. He outlines how BT's Global Fabric solution can provide enhanced monitoring with wider reach into data centers and clouds.
SASE for Next-Gen WWAN
- Ericsson positions NetCloud SASE as the industry's only unified single-vendor SASE built specifically for wireless WAN.
- The solution pairs zero-trust architecture with cellular intelligence and integrated security.
- AI-assisted deployment aims to simplify management for enterprise networks.
Abstract
Archana Khetan, SVP of Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions, introduces NetCloud SASE as the industry's only unified single-vendor SASE solution designed for wireless WAN with zero-trust architecture. The solution leverages cellular intelligence, integrated security, and AI-assisted deployment to deliver reliable connectivity and simplified management for enterprise networks.
AI Changes the Game for SD-WAN and SASE
- AI is improving operational efficiency in SASE and SD-WAN through better automation and service delivery.
- AI optimizes data processing and routing across cloud environments.
- The goal is helping organizations maximize returns on existing network infrastructure investments.
Abstract
Gretchen Tinnerman, GM, US Telco, Media and Technology Market at Kyndryl, discusses how AI enhances operational efficiency in SASE and SD-WAN technologies through improved automation and service delivery. She highlights AI's role in optimizing data processing and routing across cloud environments, enabling organizations to maximize their network infrastructure investments.
Security Services at Scale
- Organizations are closing security talent gaps through scaled and managed security services.
- AI is being folded in for enhanced threat detection capabilities.
- AI is maturing from targeted applications into enterprise-wide programs that demand robust governance frameworks.
Abstract
Bindu Sundaresan, Director, Strategic Solutions at LevelBlue, discusses how organizations are addressing talent gaps through scaled services and managed security while incorporating AI for enhanced detection capabilities. She highlights the evolution of AI from targeted applications to enterprise-wide strategic programs that demand robust governance frameworks.
SD-WAN over Starlink - Satellite Integration Opportunities
- AI integration is enhancing SD-WAN operations and application control.
- MetTel highlights combining satellite (Starlink) connectivity with SD-WAN as a key innovation.
- Encryption and decentralized identity management are called out to counter quantum computing threats and secure distributed apps.
Abstract
MetTel CTO Ed Fox explains how AI integration enhances SD-WAN operations and application control, while highlighting the innovation of combining satellite connectivity with SD-WAN solutions. He also emphasizes the importance of encryption and decentralized identity management for addressing quantum computing threats and securing distributed applications.
Building a Virtual Trusted Overlay Network
- CIOs and CTOs face rising complexity, cost, and security risk as the workforce shifts to remote environments.
- NEC's Virtual Trusted Overlay Network, powered by Cloudbrink, is positioned to deliver secure global connectivity.
- The partnership pairs NEC's integration reach with Cloudbrink's overlay technology.
Abstract
Osamu Kikuchi, Senior VP, CDO of NEC Networks and System Integration Corporation, and Prakash Mana, CEO of Cloudbrink, examine how CIOs and CTOs are managing rising complexity, costs, and security risks as employees move to remote work environments. The two outline how NEC's Virtual Trusted Overlay Network powered by Cloudbrink creates secure global connectivity.
Successful Enterprise GenAI Implementation with VeloRAIN
- Uppal frames enterprise networking in three evolution phases, with AI networking now emerging.
- Generative AI workloads pose unique challenges for the network.
- VeloCloud's VeloRAIN architecture uses AI-based application identification and Dynamic Application-Based Slicing to boost performance for GenAI apps.
Abstract
Sanjay Uppal, SVP & GM, VeloCloud Division at Broadcom, outlines three phases of enterprise networking evolution, highlighting the emergence of AI networking and the unique challenges of generative AI workloads. Sanjay also introduces the VeloRAIN architecture that uses AI-based application identification and Dynamic Application-Based Slicing to enhance network performance for GenAI applications.
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