Provider evidence
Comcast Business
Comcast Business’s managed SD-WAN and SASE proposition traces its specialist technical foundation to Masergy, a managed SD-WAN and SASE vendor founded in 2000 in Plano, Texas, which Comcast Business acquired in 2021 to, in the words of Comcast Business’s then-President Bill Stemper, ‘instantly and dramatically amplify our growth in the global enterprise market’.
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https://business.comcast.comThese capabilities use the same evidence as the provider shortlist and matching. A missing finding is not evidence that a provider lacks the capability.
Capability evidence
| Capability | Finding | Evidence and qualification |
|---|---|---|
| Fully managed service | Yes | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| DIY / self-managed model | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Co-managed service | Yes | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Multi-tenant MSP / white-label support | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Professional services and migration support | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Last-mile circuit management | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Lifecycle management | Partial | Equipment replacement SLA - 24x7x4 (On-Net) and 8X5XNBD (Off-Net) Hardware replacement is contractually covered as part of the managed service. No statement found on the pages reviewed covering firmware upgrades, patching, renewals or end-of-life planning, so graded partial. CPE is Fortinet hardware per the Masergy product sheet. Source · Evidence dated 2026-07-29 |
| Flexible commercial model | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Encrypted overlay fabric | Yes | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Dynamic path selection | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Active-active link utilisation | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Application-aware routing | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| QoS and traffic shaping | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Packet loss remediation | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Local internet breakout | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| MPLS coexistence and migration | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Cellular and 5G support | Partial | Help keep your network running with 4G LTE backup. 4G LTE is documented as a backup transport. No evidence found on the pages reviewed for 5G, for cellular as a primary transport, or for SIM management and signal monitoring, so graded partial. Source · Evidence dated 2026-07-29 |
| Cloud on-ramp | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Public cloud gateways | Partner / integrated | Comcast Business Secure Gateways are hosted across the United States at Equinix data centers, offering up to 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) of cloud connectivity for public, private, or hybrid cloud deployments. Comcast Business brands and operates the Secure Gateways, but the enforcement stack is Fortinet technology and the hosting fabric is Equinix, per the same release: "Fortinet's security-driven networking technology and Equinix's flexible cloud connection Equinix Fabric™ for a complete secure network service." Under the definition this is partner_integrated, not yes. Footprint stated as United States only. Source · Evidence dated 2026-07-29 |
| Private PoPs / dedicated PoPs | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Private global backbone | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Regional breakout and data residency | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Multi-cloud transit fabric | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Flexible edge form factors | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| High availability design | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| SLA-backed service fabric | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Integrated next-generation firewall | Yes | Native, confirmed directly by name - 'Firewall as a Service: Next-generation Firewall for network traffic inspection and security' Source · Evidence dated 2026-07-22 |
| Full SASE platform | Yes | Native, confirmed directly and with genuine specificity - 'Zero-trust network access (ZTNA): Verifies the identity of every user and device before allowing them to access internal resources by setting up one-to-one encrypted connections' Source · Evidence dated 2026-07-22 |
| SSE ecosystem integration | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Zero Trust Network Access | Yes | Native, confirmed directly and with genuine specificity - 'Zero-trust network access (ZTNA): Verifies the identity of every user and device before allowing them to access internal resources by setting up one-to-one encrypted connections' Source · Evidence dated 2026-07-22 |
| Secure web gateway | Yes | Native, confirmed directly by name as a core SASE component - 'Secure Web Gateway (SWG): On-premise or cloud-based Internet traffic filtering' Source · Evidence dated 2026-07-22 |
| CASB capability | Yes | Native, confirmed directly by name - 'Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB): To secure access to cloud applications' Specific inline-versus-API-mode technical detail not itemised Source · Evidence dated 2026-07-22 |
| Data loss prevention | Partner / integrated | Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), Intrusion Prevention (IPS), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). DLP is named as part of the SASE/SSE offer but is delivered on Fortinet's security-driven networking technology, so partner_integrated rather than yes. No detail found on classification depth, blocking versus flagging, alerting or exception workflows. Source · Evidence dated 2026-07-29 |
| Remote user access | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| SOC/SIEM/SOAR integration | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Centralised orchestration | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Customer portal and RBAC | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Observability and digital experience monitoring | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| APIs and automation | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |
| Managed service assurance | Not confirmed | See the published provider record for source context; confirm the scope for your deployment. |