Colt Technology Services

Customers can choose to do (add/edit/delete) all their policy configurations anytime via the secure Colt SD WAN portal This is a textbook shared-responsibility split: Colt runs the platform, CPE and support while the customer retains live policy and change rights through the portal. The guide also states customers can add branch sites in hours and upgrade bandwidth in real time themselves.

For the Wholesale SD WAN service, both wholesale customers and end customers will benefit from a customized look and feel, setting wholesale customer's own logo, background image, links and contact details, so that their end-customer experience doesn't differ from the rest of their services offered. All four elements of the definition are evidenced on one page: branded portal (logo, background, links), delegated administration (the carrier holds end-customer credentials and handles resets), tenant isolation (IPC* tenant identifiers in Versa Director) and hierarchy templates (customizable portal, branding and further hierarchy levels). Colt sells this explicitly as a Wholesale SD WAN solution for partners to resell.

Colt documents an encrypted overlay over private MPLS and public Internet underlay. The Colt Versa SD-WAN service guide documents an encrypted overlay using IPsec. Encryption configuration and throughput must be established for the chosen service design.

Native, confirmed directly by name - 'secure local internet breakout' named explicitly as a core integrated-firewall capability [4]

Colt SD WAN services can be provided over public internet – broadband Internet and business internet – dedicated internet access (DIA) connectivity (using any and all transport technologies like xDSL, wireless 3G/4G/LTE/5G (only available in EU for Colt provided SIMs, no limitation for customer-owned), Ethernet or traditional MPLS regardless of whether Colt is providing that underlying connectivity or not. 4G and 5G are supported as transport, and SIM management is evidenced both ways: Colt provided SIMs (EU only) or customer-owned SIMs with no geographic limitation. A separate wireless option is delivered with Blue Wireless, a Singapore-based company, supplying a Cradlepoint mobile router with dual SIM, data, installation, operation and an SLA. Confidence is medium because the guide also states that by default 3G/4G/5G circuits should be used as backup only where fixed Internet and MPLS are available, and because no published evidence of signal monitoring was found. Note the sentence quoted is reproduced as printed, including its unclosed parenthesis and en dashes.

Native, confirmed directly via the confirmed uCPE architecture, described as 'bringing cloud computing benefits from data centres to edge computing at customer' sites [4]

Native, confirmed directly via the confirmed uCPE architecture, described as 'bringing cloud computing benefits from data centres to edge computing at customer' sites [4]

Sovereign SASE keeps data within its own network and in specific regions, avoiding third-party transfers and boosting control. Colt markets a Sovereign SASE deployment model and a Versa Hosted SASE Solution, and the product page describes sovereign SASE as a model where the organisation or a service provider hosts all components. That evidences regional and sovereign data control. Graded partial rather than yes because no page found describes a customer-hosted or single-tenant dedicated PoP as an orderable option with defined commercials; the published claim is about data residency within Colt's own network, which is not the same as a dedicated PoP.

Native, confirmed directly by name - 'uCPE allows customers to licence, manage, and monitor functions with flexible network options', with a specifically-named 'blue wireless CPE' attachable to 'any of the current standard Versa CPEs' [4]

Native, confirmed directly by name - 'Active/Active operation' and the confirmed dual resilient SIM architecture for the named Blue Wireless partnership specifically [4] [6]

SLA (for on-net circuits) | 99.90% | 99.90% | 99.95% | 99.90% | 99.95% | 99.90% | 99.95% The service guide publishes a contractual availability SLA differentiated by site package, 99.90% for XS/S/M/L and 99.95% for the S Plus, M Plus and L Plus tiers, and the guide is a service-guide-grade document rather than marketing. The wireless option is separately stated to guarantee 50% of contract speed. Confidence is medium on two counts: the SLA applies to on-net circuits only, and no published response-time, change-handling, latency, jitter or loss commitments were found. The quote is a table row, so a verifier should expect it rendered as a table rather than prose.

Native, confirmed directly and with genuine specificity - 'Colt SD WAN provides an integrated firewall with SD WAN which provides secure local internet breakout, provides DDoS protection and ability to create firewall policies and rules through customer portal' [4]

Native, and genuinely well-evidenced via Colt's own confirmed, substantial network scale combined with a confirmed, long-standing platform partnership [4]

Native, confirmed with genuine specificity via a named product - Colt SD WAN Remote Access, 'based on Versa Secure Access (VSA)' [2]

Native, confirmed directly by name - 'Versa Secure Web Gateway, a secure web access solution that offers organisations protection from malware and threats' [2]