Who Is Selling Naas, And What Do You Get?

Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a cloud-enabled, usage-based consumption model that allows users to acquire and orchestrate network capabilities without owning, building, or maintaining their own infrastructure. NaaS can provide an alternative consumption model for a broad range of network elements, including wired and wireless LANs, WANs, and VPNs, as well as branch, data-center, edge, multicloud, and hybrid-cloud environments. It can be used to deliver new network models such as secure access service edge (SASE). NaaS can allow IT teams to more easily scale up or down, rapidly deploy new services, and optimize the balance between CapEx and OpEx.