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Ivanti Pulse Secure¶
Ivanti Pulse Secure is a commercial SSL-VPN product (formerly Pulse Connect Secure, originally Juniper's) in the client-server- VPN category. The wiki's only instance is as the predecessor VPN that Yelp retired in favour of Netbird in late 2023 onward.
Why the wiki has this page¶
Yelp's 2025-04-15 Zero Trust Access post names Pulse Secure as the substrate the company migrated off. Three named limitations drove the exit:
- Throughput ceiling — "peak download speed in the low tens of megabits per second for most users", materially below what engineering workflows (cloning large Git repos, downloading logs, remote-desktop / terminal sessions to devboxes) required.
- Authentication UX regression — Yelp's progression was LDAP → SAML → OIDC-on-Netbird. On Pulse, the SAML integration produced "a suboptimal user experience due to a cumbersome browser-to- VPN client handoff for session authentication."
- Reliability / HA gaps — the narrative explicitly motivates Netbird's mesh topology + router peer abstraction as delivering HA that Pulse's single-tunnel-per-session model couldn't match. Pulse required "a more reliable solution."
Seen in¶
- sources/2025-04-15-yelp-journey-to-zero-trust-access — the only wiki instance; Pulse as the explicit predecessor Yelp retired.
Related¶
- systems/netbird — the replacement.
- concepts/vpn-to-zta-migration — the motion Yelp is executing.