CenturyLink is adapting their Enterprise level offerings in preparation to bring Level3 into the fold. This follows their announcement last week of the management team for new combined CenturyLink organisation.…
SDxCentral: Dutch Provider Selects Juniper’s Virtual MX Edge Router
Yesterday, SDxCentral reported that Dutch ISP A2B Internet have selected Juniper's vMX router as their first VNF. A2B's press release is available
Product Announcement: Cisco ENCS5000 NFV platform
One of the announcements at CiscoLive was the Cisco ENCS5000 NFV platform. ENCS5000 is effectively Cisco's branch-in-a-box device for running a virtualised routing, security and NFV platform. It uses the…
New kit “launched” at Cisco Live
So as part of the keynote speech here in Berlin where I am attending CiscoLive 2017, some new Cisco products were launched, or more properly exposed in more detail from…
vCE? What is a virtual customer edge?
If you're looking at an SD-WAN solution, some of the providers will offer you a vCE (virtualised Customer Edge) as part of the deployment. Are there advantages, and should you…
AT&T Open Sources ECOMP for network and NFV orchestration
Yesterday AT&T handed over control of it's ECOMP (Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy) engine to the Linux Foundation, moving the development of their VNF orchestrator into the Open Source…
Silver Peak confirm use in Masergy’s SD-WAN
Following the Masergy announcement of their managed SD-WAN service, Silver Peak confirm that the service uses their technology. It looks like the service uses all of the Silver Peak Unity…
Masergy launches SD-WAN solution
Masergy has launched a new managed SD-WAN solution. This solution will enhance their hybrid WAN capability. It will reach General Availability by Q4 2016, and to aid marketing, they have…