Datavision, Enea and partners demonstrate uCPE and SD-WAN reference solution at MEF18
Technical partnership between Datavision, Cloudify, Enea, Kontron and Fortinet, to drastically decrease operational costs for edge and customer premise deployments
Los Angeles, CA, October 29, 2018 – Datavision, a global service integrator of SDN/NFV-centric orchestration solutions, Kontron – Communications Business, a provider of converged infrastructure platforms, Enea® (NASDAQ Stockholm: ENEA) a global supplier of NFVi software platforms and world class services, and, Fortinet, a market leader of Security as a Service (SecaaS) and SD-WAN solutions, today announced a partnership to demonstrate reference solutions for telco and enterprise uCPE use cases.
Datavision will showcase at the MEF18 conference – October 29 – November 2, 2018 – the culmination of work based on Enea® NFV Access NFVi software running on Kontron SYMKLOUD application-ready hardware. On top will be a Fortinet secure SD-WAN virtualized network function (VNF), managed by Cloudify NFV orchestration.
“The partnership rewards customers with an extremely lightweight NFVi platform using Enea NFV Access combined with a leading firewall and SD-WAN solution that, overall, requires minimal processor, memory and storage resources within in a condensed footprint,” said Mark Abolafia, Chief Operating Officer at Datavision. “With the wide range of Kontron whitebox platforms, we can expand our client’s service offerings to now include SD-WAN. When you combine this with our integration capabilities and experience with world-class Cloudify orchestration, this enables Tier2/3 service providers and enterprises to deploy a highly cost-effective SD-WAN that accelerate the monetization of NFV-based technologies.”
“We work with operators to help with their infrastructure transition that better leverages SDN and NFV technologies – from the edge, PoP and cloud-ready PoPs, to the DC/CO,” said Luc-Yves Pagal Vinette, Global Business Development Executive, Kontron, Communications business. “With Datavision taking the integration lead, this multi-vendor collaboration underscores the feasibility to produce reliable solutions using the proprietary and open source software on standard whitebox equipment.”
“While closed SD-WAN solutions have been helping to drive innovation on the networking layer, these types of over-the-top proprietary stacks have led to yet another form of lock-in of the entire network, from HQ to branches,” say Nati Shalom CTO & Founder, Cloudify. “This partnership built on a truly open, secure, pluggable, and best of breed stack from Kontron, Enea, Cloudify & Fortinet – and delivered with real world NFV & SDN implementation expertise by Datavision – will be a game changer for SD-WAN from core to edge.”
Karl Mörner, VP R&D and Product Management at Enea said “We see a huge surge for cost-efficient, lightweight NFVi solutions right now. The market is turning away from “grey box vendors” in preference for pure white box uCPE solutions that can provide openness and flexibility. Together with Datavision, Cloudify, Kontron and Fortinet we offer both high value and the flexibility of an open uCPE based SD-WAN solution to Telcos and Enterprises.”
Datavision is integrator with expertise in ONAP, Cloudify and OSM, and bringing the cloud closer to customer edge network with first-rate hardware and software partners that deliver greater efficiency, agility and flexibility.
Enea NFV Access is a uCPE virtualization platform for hosting and managing 3rd party VNF’s and containers that runs on standard COTS hardware – from Atom to Xeon-type processors – to reduce costs while providing carrier grade throughput and reduced latency. It provides Zero Touch Provisioning, software upgrades, automation and many other features required to deploy a uCPE network. VNF Lifecycle management is done using Netconf.
The Kontron SYMKLOUD portfolio includes a series of high-density converged platforms that significantly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership by decreasing both rack space and power consumption. This enables a significant increase in the number of virtual services deployed per 2U rack-based platform, which houses up to 18 independent servers operated within a 1500W power consumption.
The four-party partnership with Datavision brings the best of what this rapidly growing market has to offer in terms of service and choice. Service providers can leverage the freedom of open source, standard COTS hardware, virtualized layers and tailored orchestrator solutions without neglecting their past investments vis-à-vis existing network infrastructure investments. This approach has already generated considerable interest from various forward-looking, innovative service providers who aim to deploy a differentiated service value proposition.
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About Datavision, Inc
Datavision brings their formidable expertise at leveraging innovative orchestrator solutions such as Cloudify, accelerating customer access to service automation. The company has extensive experience across a multitude of orchestration platforms, with a long history of network engineering and software development experience in the SDN/NFV space. Datavision helps our clients through the automation and virtualization journey with a complete approach, looking at the services to be offered as well as current processes, and how to optimize for automation. Our solutions help our clients to lower their operational costs and increase their agility while reducing their time to revenue. For more information: www.datavision-inc.com
About Enea
Enea develops the software foundation for the connected society. We provide solutions for mobile traffic optimization, subscriber data management, network virtualization, traffic classification, embedded operating systems, and professional services. Solution vendors, systems integrators, and service providers use Enea to create new world-leading networking products and services. More than 3 billion people around the globe already rely on Enea technologies in their daily lives. Enea is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. For more information: www.enea.com
About Kontron, Communications Business
Kontron, Communications Business, part of the S&T Group, designs hardware for the software defined world. Service providers and enterprise clients around the globe collaborate with Kontron and its ISV and channel partners to deploy new services with greater speed, confidence and operational efficiency. Our portfolio is a best-of-breed of OEM hardware and SYMKLOUD Converged Infrastructure Platforms dedicated to the deployment of virtual services using software defined networks (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). For more information, please visit www.symkloud.com.
About Cloudify
Cloudify specializes in IT operations automation technology that manages application and network services through open orchestration. The company’s open source Cloudify software enhances the velocity and reliability of software deployment, lifecycle management and network functions in cloud-native environments. Cloudify is used by telecoms, internet service providers, financial services firms, e-commerce companies and others for NFV operations and cloud management & orchestration. Cloudify is the leading orchestration provider behind the TOSCA specification, is a founding member of ONAP and is an active member in the OASIS and ETSI standard bodies. Cloudify has corporate offices in the US, Europe and Asia. More at cloudify.co.
Media Contact:
Datavision
Mark Abolafia, Chief Operating Officer
Phone: (908) 566-3547
E-Mail: mabolafia@datavision-inc.com
