Open Systems managed SASE, SD-WAN and security quotes

Open Systems delivers SASE as a service its own engineers operate, so the controls stay with the provider rather than moving onto your team's task list. It can be quoted here for SD-WAN, managed security and business ethernet across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

The company

What Open Systems is

The pitch rests on a distinction Open Systems draws explicitly: plenty of managed SASE offers are assembled from several vendors' products and unified only by a portal, whereas this one is a native stack the provider both wrote and runs. What sits in that stack is stated plainly, with encryption, path selection and application optimization on the network side, and secure web gateway, zero trust access, cloud application controls, email filtering, network detection and response, sandboxing and firewall on the security side, every piece answering to the same operations group. That group is as much the product as the software: change requests and alerts land directly with senior engineers working a follow-the-sun rota instead of climbing a queue, and every customer gets named people who design, plan and see the migration through. It also absorbs the unglamorous work at the edges, managing the carrier lines feeding each site, carrying traffic across a backbone of its own, and providing entry points for mobile devices and for the partners you are obliged to let in, which is why organizations leaving MPLS, or leaving a do-it-yourself SD-WAN they can no longer staff, keep landing here. The pull is strongest in manufacturing, chemicals, insurance, financial services, higher education and non-governmental organizations, and reaching sites inside China is treated as a named problem it will discuss rather than a footnote it hopes you skip.

Fit

When Open Systems is the right call

• Companies that cannot staff a network security rota and have stopped pretending otherwise
• Estates retiring MPLS now that branch traffic mainly heads for cloud applications
• Do-it-yourself SD-WAN builds that outgrew the handful of people maintaining them
• Multi-site manufacturers and similar operators with plants in genuinely awkward places
• Buyers wanting one party answerable for both routing the traffic and inspecting it

Comparison

What to weigh Open Systems against

Cato Networks is the unavoidable comparison, and the deciding test is not feature lists but who is expected to open the console on a Tuesday afternoon, because with Open Systems the answer is never you. Aryaka shares the operating philosophy and also runs a middle mile and will source your access circuits, so probe carefully where underlay ownership ends up in each proposal. If the real requirement is detection and response across an estate whose network is already settled, eSentire and LevelBlue answer that question far more directly. And where your committee wants to own the platform while renting the hands to run it, Cisco with a partner-operated wrap, or a circuit provider such as GTT or Fusion Connect, will structure the deal that way instead.

Before you ask

Have this ready when you request quotes

• Every site with its country, installed edge hardware and whoever holds the support contract today
• The change requests your team files in an ordinary month, because that volume is what you are handing over
• Which controls have to stay under your own administration for audit reasons
• Where inspection is permitted to take place, region by region, and who signs that off
• Any location in China or behind a similarly awkward border, flagged before the design work starts

Availability differs by address and by service, which is exactly what the quote process settles. Request competing quotes and see what Open Systems and the other providers at your location come back with, or browse every provider we work with.