Universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) promises to bring simplicity and flexibility to managed network services. Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware (also known as whiteboxes) a uCPE platform can host several network functions, such as routing, SD-WAN, WAN optimization, and virtualized security elements service chained...
Verizon deploys VNS bundles
Verizon continues to push virtualization with the launch of its Virtual Network Services (VNS) Solution Bundles.
Verizon originally introduced a pricing model for its VNS platform last November as a way to provide network functions on an as needed basis. Verizon’s VNS help...
Orange and Cisco team up on SD-WAN
Orange Business Services announced it performed the first on-boarding of a Cisco SD-WAN virtual network function (VNF) on the Cisco Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS).
The platform includes a fully functional virtualized solution for network services, and is part...
Lanner Electronics and 128 Technoly team up to ease SD-WAN deployments
Lanner Electronics has partnered with 128 Technology to help deploy next generation software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and virtual network function (VNF) appliances using white box universal customer premises equipment (uCPE). According to Lanner,...
