Provider evidence · Updated July 2026
Best SD-WAN and SASE providers for healthcare (2026)
Our ranked shortlist below covers SD-WAN and SASE providers with public evidence of healthcare sector capability, scored against the Netify 40 feature evaluation matrix (plus the likes of regional coverage, cloud support, AI and resilience capabilities). Typical drivers in this sector include clinical application performance, site resilience for 24x7 care settings and patient data protection - so the weighting reflects that.
Netify's July 2026 evidence directory, alphabetically: Aryaka; AT&T Business; Barracuda SecureEdge; BT; Cato Networks; Check Point; Cisco; Cloudflare One; Colt Technology Services; Comcast Business; Ericsson Cradlepoint; Expereo; Forcepoint; Fortinet FortiSASE; GTT; HPE Aruba EdgeConnect; Juniper Networks; Lumen; Netskope; NTT DATA; Open Systems; Orange Business; Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE; SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge; VeloCloud; Verizon Business; Versa Networks; Virgin Media O2 Business; Vodafone Business; Zscaler. Computed fit and rankings unlock after verified publication. Describe the project once at netify.co.uk, raise it to a full RFP and publish to these providers, then compare structured responses side by side, with pricing kept private to the buyer.
Written by the Netify research team. Reviewed by Robert Sturt, Netify Group Limited. Updated 29 July 2026 (vendor records verified 29 July 2026). capability features; see the FAQ below.
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Best SD-WAN and SASE providers for healthcare: the evidence
Source evidence in alphabetical order. Computed recommendations unlock after verified publication.
26vendors. Each value below is graded from the vendor's own published material or an independently accountable record, with a sentence quoted from that source and confirmed present on the page. 1365 sources behind this table. Verified 2026-07-29. Where evidence was not found a cell reads Not published rather than being inferred.
| Vendor | Type | Underlay | SSE layer | Backbone | PoPs | Fully managed | Compliance docs | Published SLA | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aryaka | Both | Mixed | Native | Yes | 40+ | Yes | Documented | 99.999 | 66 |
| AT&T Business | Runs | Owns | Partner | Yes | 1600 | Yes | Assurance only | 100 | 46 |
| BT Business / BT Global | Runs | Mixed | Partner | Partial | 140 | Yes | Assurance only | Not published | 58 |
| Cato Networks | Both | Mixed | Native | Yes | 100 | Yes | Documented | 99.999 | 46 |
| Check Point | Both | Mixed | Native | Yes | 80+ | Partial | None found | Not published | 43 |
| Cisco | Both | Customer supplied | Native | Partial | Not published | Not primary | Documented | 99.999 | 48 |
| Cloudflare One | Builds | Mixed | Native | Yes | 300+ | Not primary | Documented | 100 | 45 |
| Colt Technology Services | Runs | Mixed | Partner | Not published | Not published | Yes | Documented | 99.90 | 46 |
| Comcast Business / Masergy | Runs | Mixed | Partner | Partial | Not published | Yes | None found | 100 | 39 |
| Cradlepoint / Ericsson | Builds | Customer supplied | Native | Not published | Not published | Not primary | Assurance only | Not published | 60 |
| Forcepoint | Builds | Customer supplied | Native | Not published | Not published | Not primary | Documented | Not published | 51 |
| Fortinet | Both | Not published | Native | Partial | 170+ | Yes | Documented | 99.999 | 42 |
| GTT | Runs | Mixed | Partner | Yes | 400 | Yes | Documented | 99.99 | 44 |
| HPE Aruba Networking | Both | Customer supplied | Not published | Not published | Not published | Yes | Documented | Not published | 54 |
| Juniper Networks | Builds | Customer supplied | Native | Not published | Not published | Partial | None found | Not published | 42 |
| Lumen | Runs | Mixed | Partner | Yes | 50+ | Yes | Documented | 99.99 | 55 |
| Netskope | Builds | Mixed | Native | Not published | 120+ | Via managed service | Documented | 99.999 | 60 |
| NTT DATA / NTT Ltd. | Both | Mixed | Partner | Yes | 75+ | Yes | Documented | 100 | 53 |
| Orange Business | Runs | Owns | Partner | Yes | 400 | Yes | Documented | 100 | 62 |
| Palo Alto Networks | Builds | Customer supplied | Native | Partner | 100+ | Via managed service | Documented | 99.999 | 58 |
| SonicWall | Both | Customer supplied | Native | Not published | Not published | Partial | Documented | Not published | 78 |
| Arista / VeloCloud | Builds | Customer supplied | Partner | Not published | 150+ | Partner | Documented | Not published | 53 |
| Verizon Business | Runs | Owns | Partner | Yes | Not published | Yes | None found | 100 | 58 |
| Versa Networks | Both | Mixed | Native | Partial | 90 | Partial | Documented | 99.999 | 47 |
| Vodafone Business | Runs | Mixed | Partner | Yes | 212 | Yes | Documented | 99.99 | 60 |
| Zscaler | Both | Customer supplied | Native | Not primary | 160 | Partial | Documented | 99.999 | 51 |
Full sources for each vendor, including the sources we found and rejected and any claims that disagree, are on its profile page.
Source evidence
Aryaka
Managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: days
Unified SASE delivered as a managed service from end to end, including the private global core network and WAN optimisation.
Watch out: Smaller PoP footprint and partner ecosystem than the hyperscale SASE vendors; coverage must match your geographic profile.
Contact Aryaka via Netify ↗Source evidence
AT&T Business
Global carrier managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: months
AT&T's multi-vendor platform options, including Fortinet for AT&T SASE, mean a hospital network running different EHR systems or different generations of imaging equipment across its sites isn't forced onto a single architecture. For 24/7 care resilience, that flexibility is useful in practice - a flagship site with a 24-hour emergency department and a smaller outpatient clinic have different failover requirements, and AT&T's portfolio can be matched accordingly rather than applying one standard everywhere.
On data sovereignty, AT&T's HIPAA credentials are well-established, though for trusts with DSPT obligations or any cross-border processing, the specific platform proposed will determine where that data is actually handled.
Watch out: Because the underlying platform varies by service tier, the compliance picture isn't fixed at the outset - it depends on which platform AT&T proposes for the scope in question. A trust that signs off on AT&T's general HIPAA posture, then finds during implementation that the specific platform variant handles data-in-transit encryption differently to what was assumed, is left reworking a compliance position that should have been confirmed earlier. Get the platform specification in writing before sign-off.
Contact AT&T Business via Netify ↗Source evidence
Barracuda SecureEdge
technology vendor · Typical deployment: unknown
Watch out:
Contact Barracuda SecureEdge via Netify ↗Source evidence
BT
Global/UK managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: weeks
BT's access circuit ownership means that when a connection into a community hospital or GP surgery starts to degrade, BT's own field engineers are working on BT's own infrastructure, rather than the managed service provider waiting on a separate access provider to investigate. In a 24/7 care setting, the time between raising a fault and an engineer actively diagnosing it is what determines whether a degrading circuit is a brief blip or a clinical system going down mid-shift.
That same underlay ownership simplifies the data sovereignty position for UK trusts. A single UK-based provider managing both connectivity and overlay removes a layer of third-party risk assessment that multi-vendor arrangements typically require for DSPT compliance.
Watch out: BT's SD-WAN portfolio isn't built on one platform, and for healthcare specifically that has a bearing on application-aware routing - the prioritisation behaviour for Epic, Cerner or PACS/DICOM traffic differs between the platforms BT can deploy. A trust that evaluates BT against one platform's clinical traffic handling, then finds a different platform proposed at contract stage, may find the imaging prioritisation it assessed isn't present in the same form. Confirm the specific platform early and test application-aware routing against your actual traffic profile before signing.
Contact BT via Netify ↗Source evidence
Cato Networks
Cloud-native SASE / SD-WAN platform · Typical deployment: hours
Cato's converged architecture runs SD-WAN policy and security policy through the same engine, which has a direct consequence for IoMT segmentation. A new infusion pump, imaging modality or nurse call device gets the same micro-segmentation policy applied at every site, because there's only one policy to apply - not a network team's configuration and a separate security team's configuration that need to be kept aligned. In estates where medical devices are onboarded continuously and not always by the same team, that consistency is the main argument for Cato in a healthcare context.
Application-aware routing for Epic or Cerner traffic sits in the same policy layer, so prioritisation rules for clinical systems don't need separate reconciliation against SD-WAN QoS settings.
Watch out: Trusts already committed to Zscaler or Netskope as their SSE layer - whether through an existing enterprise agreement or a compliance sign-off already completed - will find Cato's architecture doesn't accommodate that alongside it. For a trust mid-way through a separate SSE procurement, that's a more significant decision than the deployment-in-hours headline implies, and worth raising before evaluation goes much further.
Contact Cato Networks via Netify ↗Source evidence
Check Point
SASE / security vendor · Typical deployment: days
Harmony SASE combines Check Point security heritage with cloud-delivered SASE and optimised SD-WAN performance.
Watch out: Native SD-WAN capabilities (path selection, QoS, packet loss remediation) have limited public evidence relative to SD-WAN-led vendors.
Contact Check Point via Netify ↗Source evidence
Cisco
SD-WAN / SASE technology vendor · Typical deployment: weeks
Broadest platform portfolio in the category, covering Catalyst SD-WAN for enterprise WAN, Meraki MX for cloud-managed branch, and Cisco Secure Access for converged SASE delivery.
Watch out: Two distinct SD-WAN product lines (Catalyst and Meraki) means buyers should confirm which fits the target deployment profile and the longer-term roadmap.
Contact Cisco via Netify ↗Source evidence
Cloudflare One
SASE / Zero Trust / network services · Typical deployment: hours
Cloudflare global edge network provides one of the largest PoP footprints in the category for SASE traffic.
Watch out: SD-WAN capabilities (path selection, QoS, packet loss remediation) have limited public evidence compared to SD-WAN-first vendors.
Contact Cloudflare One via Netify ↗Source evidence
Colt Technology Services
Enterprise managed SD-WAN / connectivity provider · Typical deployment: months
Colt's European data sovereignty positioning is the most direct match to the compliance pillar of any provider in this comparison. Owning the fibre network across European business districts means data-in-transit encryption and localised processing don't depend on a third-party network operator - Colt controls the path the data takes, which makes a DSPT or GDPR data flow mapping exercise more straightforward than where multiple parties are involved.
For trusts where "where does our patient data physically travel" needs a confident, auditable answer, Colt's network ownership model provides that more directly than most managed providers.
Watch out: That strength is geographically bound. Global delivery depth outside Europe is less developed than the likes of AT&T, Verizon or NTT, so a healthcare network that's primarily European but includes, for instance, a research collaboration site in North America or Asia has that site sitting outside Colt's core strength. The 24/7 resilience and AIOps capability that makes Colt compelling for European sites may not extend with the same maturity to that location, and would need assessing separately.
Contact Colt Technology Services via Netify ↗Source evidence
Comcast Business
Managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: weeks
The Masergy AIOps heritage gives Comcast Business a monitoring layer built to identify degradation - rising latency, increasing packet loss - before a connection fails outright, rather than after. For a hospital where that connection is carrying PACS imaging to a radiologist or supporting a telehealth consultation, the advance warning is the practical value: rerouting or intervention can happen before the clinical impact occurs, not in response to it.
Combined with fully managed or co-managed delivery, this gives smaller trusts without a large network operations function access to a level of proactive monitoring that larger health systems would otherwise need to build in-house.
Watch out: The AIOps capability is grounded in North American operational experience. International delivery outside North America runs through partnerships rather than Comcast's own infrastructure, so the monitoring depth evaluated against a North American reference site may not extend in the same form to partner-delivered regions. For any healthcare network with European or wider international sites, it's worth asking specifically how AIOps monitoring is delivered at those locations rather than confirming only that it's available.
Contact Comcast Business via Netify ↗Source evidence
Ericsson Cradlepoint
Wireless WAN / SD-WAN adjacent vendor · Typical deployment: days
Wireless-first branch architecture from Ericsson with deep 5G expertise; NetCloud provides cellular-centric SD-WAN management.
Watch out: SASE story is partner-integrated rather than native; SSE capabilities require validation in RFP.
Contact Ericsson Cradlepoint via Netify ↗Source evidence
Expereo
managed service provider / carrier network provider · Typical deployment: unknown
Watch out:
Contact Expereo via Netify ↗Source evidence
Forcepoint
Security / secure SD-WAN vendor · Typical deployment: days
FlexEdge Secure SD-WAN combines secure SD-WAN with strong DLP and data security heritage from the wider Forcepoint portfolio.
Watch out: Smaller SD-WAN market presence than the leading platforms.
Contact Forcepoint via Netify ↗Source evidence
Fortinet FortiSASE
Secure SD-WAN / SASE technology vendor · Typical deployment: days
Native convergence of networking and security on a single operating system (FortiOS) across FortiGate edge, FortiManager and FortiSASE.
Watch out: Like Cisco, managed delivery is via partners rather than Fortinet directly; underlay and field operations are not owned by the vendor.
Contact Fortinet FortiSASE via Netify ↗Source evidence
GTT
Global managed SD-WAN provider · Typical deployment: months
Tier 1 global backbone provides strong international transit capability alongside managed SD-WAN.
Watch out: SASE depth depends heavily on the chosen platform partner; native SSE capabilities are not primary positioning.
Contact GTT via Netify ↗Source evidence
HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
SD-WAN / SSE / branch technology vendor · Typical deployment: days
EdgeConnect SD-WAN (acquired with Silver Peak) is positioned as the foundation for single-vendor SASE alongside Aruba SSE.
Watch out: Aruba SSE is newer than the SSE leaders (Zscaler, Netskope); buyers wanting best-of-breed SASE should evaluate the SSE capability set carefully.
Contact HPE Aruba EdgeConnect via Netify ↗Source evidence
Juniper Networks
AI-driven WAN / SD-branch technology vendor · Typical deployment: days
Mist AI delivers WAN Assurance, providing AI-driven monitoring and troubleshooting at the WAN edge that few competitors match.
Watch out: SASE story is less mature than the SASE-led vendors; SSE capabilities have limited public evidence relative to category leaders.
Contact Juniper Networks via Netify ↗Source evidence
Lumen
Managed SD-WAN / NaaS provider · Typical deployment: months
Fully managed or co-managed SD-WAN with strong NaaS positioning and integrated network services.
Watch out: SASE and security capabilities are largely partner-integrated rather than native; the SSE platform choice needs explicit evaluation.
Contact Lumen via Netify ↗Source evidence
Netskope
SSE / SASE platform · Typical deployment: days
Strong CASB heritage; widely recognised as a leading SSE vendor for SaaS-heavy environments.
Watch out: Native SD-WAN (Borderless WAN) is newer than dedicated SD-WAN platforms; validate path selection and QoS depth in RFP.
Contact Netskope via Netify ↗Source evidence
NTT DATA
Global managed network provider · Typical deployment: months
NTT's global operations centres run 24x7, which aligns closely with how care settings operate - the follow-the-sun handover between centres means there's an active team monitoring at all times, rather than an on-call response after an issue is reported.
The portal visibility NTT provide is also relevant to compliance teams specifically. Trusts needing to demonstrate to auditors how patient data flows are monitored, and where clinical traffic is routed, have that information readily accessible rather than needing to request it on a case-by-case basis - which reduces friction in DSPT evidence-gathering.
Watch out: NTT's managed service wraps around platforms from the likes of Palo Alto and Zscaler rather than a single NTT-built stack, so the IoMT segmentation and clinical application prioritisation capability available depends on which platform is proposed for the estate. The 24x7 operations model is consistent regardless of platform, but medical device micro-segmentation needs assessing against the specific underlying technology rather than assumed from NTT's overall score.
Contact NTT DATA via Netify ↗Source evidence
Open Systems
technology vendor / managed service provider · Typical deployment: unknown
Watch out:
Contact Open Systems via Netify ↗Source evidence
Orange Business
Global managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: months
For healthcare networks spanning multiple countries - through research partnerships, shared diagnostic services or cross-border referral pathways - Orange's NOC depth and field operations across European and African markets address a practical issue: data protection and clinical data handling rules vary by country, and Orange's regional presence means there's local operational expertise familiar with those variations, rather than a single global team applying one approach everywhere.
That regional footprint also supports data sovereignty directly. Localised processing within specific jurisdictions is more credible where the provider already operates there, rather than being a commitment to build capability for the contract.
Watch out: As with other large carriers, Orange's underlying SD-WAN platform depends on which Orange-supported vendor is selected - and for clinical workloads, that choice affects how application-aware routing for EHR and imaging traffic behaves in practice. A platform that scores well generally for application prioritisation doesn't guarantee Orange's specific implementation, in a given region, with a given traffic profile, performs the same way. A reference site with a comparable clinical traffic mix is worth requesting.
Contact Orange Business via Netify ↗Source evidence
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE
SD-WAN / SASE technology vendor · Typical deployment: weeks
Prisma SASE's security depth is the main reason this sits in the top 10 despite a lower overall score than the managed providers above it, and for healthcare that depth translates fairly directly into IoMT segmentation capability. ZTNA and micro-segmentation are core to how Prisma is architected rather than added on, which means isolating a vulnerable infusion pump or an unpatched legacy imaging workstation from the rest of the network is a native capability.
ADEM - digital experience management - is also relevant to clinical application prioritisation. It doesn't only route Epic or PACS traffic with priority; it provides visibility into whether that prioritisation translates into acceptable performance at the point of use, which is the difference between confirming QoS is configured and confirming a radiologist's PACS viewer actually performs.
Watch out: That capability comes at a price point noticeably higher than firewall-led SD-WAN vendors, and the commercial model needs careful scoping across users, bandwidth, locations and term. For a healthcare network with a large number of smaller sites - community clinics, GP practices, diagnostic centres - the per-site economics of Prisma's security depth may not stack up the same way as for a smaller number of large acute hospitals where security requirements are highest. This is worth modelling against the actual site mix rather than an estate-wide average.
Contact Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE via Netify ↗Source evidence
SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge
SMB / mid-market firewall-led SD-WAN vendor · Typical deployment: days
SD-WAN delivered via existing TZ, NSa and SM firewall appliances; familiar deployment for organisations standardised on SonicWall.
Watch out: SASE and SSE capabilities have partial public evidence; depth should be confirmed in RFP.
Contact SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge via Netify ↗Source evidence
VeloCloud
SD-WAN technology vendor · Typical deployment: days
VeloCloud was an early SD-WAN platform with strong cloud-delivered gateway architecture; now under Arista following the 2025 acquisition.
Watch out: Platform is mid-transition from VMware/Broadcom to Arista; product roadmap, naming and integration story will evolve.
Contact VeloCloud via Netify ↗Source evidence
Verizon Business
Global carrier managed SD-WAN / SASE provider · Typical deployment: months
Verizon's North American network has been built up over years of supporting emergency services and first responder communications, and the resilience engineering from that work extends into the managed SD-WAN service - relevant for health systems where network downtime carries a direct patient safety dimension rather than being purely an operational inconvenience.
International delivery extends well beyond the US, which is useful for health systems with research, supply chain or partner connections overseas, though the platform underpinning that delivery has implications for clinical traffic handling, covered below.
Watch out: A largely Versa-based platform has a direct bearing on application-aware routing. Versa's approach to traffic classification is mature, but where a trust's other sites - or a wider integrated care system - run on a different SD-WAN technology, the result is two different application-aware routing logics applied to the same categories of clinical traffic. For a single hospital this is unlikely to matter; for an integrated care system standardising policy across multiple providers, it's a genuine consideration.
Contact Verizon Business via Netify ↗Source evidence
Versa Networks
SD-WAN / SASE technology vendor · Typical deployment: weeks
Multi-tenancy from the ground up, making Versa a common choice for service providers and carriers building managed SD-WAN and SASE platforms.
Watch out: Less well-known to enterprise buyers as a direct purchase; most enterprise consumption is via service providers.
Contact Versa Networks via Netify ↗Source evidence
Virgin Media O2 Business
managed service provider / carrier network provider · Typical deployment: unknown
Watch out:
Contact Virgin Media O2 Business via Netify ↗Source evidence
Vodafone Business
Global managed SD-WAN provider · Typical deployment: months
Strong UK and European market presence with NaaS positioning and integrated mobile/fixed access.
Watch out: Underlying platform varies by region (VeloCloud in UK, others elsewhere); ensure consistency for multinational deployment.
Contact Vodafone Business via Netify ↗Source evidence
Zscaler
SSE / SASE platform · Typical deployment: days
Category leader in SSE with ZIA, ZPA and ZDX; widely adopted as the security layer in best-of-breed SASE architectures.
Watch out: Historically SSE-led; native SD-WAN capability is less mature than dedicated SD-WAN platforms (validate path selection, QoS and packet loss in RFP).
Contact Zscaler via Netify ↗
Alphabetical source evidence. Computed fit, rankings and recommendations unlock after verified project publication.
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Netify, "Best SD-WAN and SASE providers for Healthcare (2026)", Netify SASE and SD-WAN comparison, updated 29 July 2026: https://netify.co.uk/sase/best/sd-wan-sase-providers-for-healthcare
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About this evidence
Which SD-WAN and SASE providers are strongest for healthcare?
The leading providers for healthcare are listed in the ranking above, each graded on public evidence of sector capability - the likes of case studies, dedicated offerings and certifications - alongside the same 40 technical and service features used across our wider comparison.
How is this healthcare ranking calculated?
To ensure the integrity of our rankings, providers without confirmed healthcare sector evidence are excluded from this list - with the remainder being scored on a weighted average across 40 capability features (with the same engine powering our interactive shortlist builder, MCP tool and this page to provide reproducible results).
Can I adjust this shortlist for my own requirements?
Yes - the interactive shortlist builder lets you add your operating model, regions, clouds, security features, AI requirements and deployment ceiling on top of the healthcare filter. Every configuration is a shareable URL, so you can come back to it or pass it on to colleagues later.
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