Orange Business Services
accelerates Network Edge
transformation
Orange Business Services selects Ekinops and Dell
Technologies for uCPE platforms to accelerate
Network Edge transformation.
O
range Business Services has
chosen Ekinops and Dell
Technologies as partners for a new
universal customer premise equipment
(uCPE) solution.
This platform plays a key role in
network transformation, including
Software Defined Networking (SDx),
providing customers with increased
business agility, flexibility and simplicity
in service deployment.
network functions (VNF) management.
Enterprises can install VNFs remotely
to a uCPE deployed at any site. A single
box can run multiple network functions,
such as routers, SD-WAN, firewalls and
WAN optimisation, allowing customers
to provision new sites and services
much more quickly. The Ekinops VNF
certification programme currently has
certified over 30 third-party VNFs.
Supporting push towards
Edge Computing
Orange will deliver solutions based on this
uCPE to mid-market and large enterprise
customers worldwide starting in 2020.
The solution is a result of co-innovation
between Orange and its strategic
partners Ekinops and Dell Technologies,
combining Enterprise Branch Server IT and
Virtualisation Management. The solution will also help enterprises
move toward Edge Computing, with use
cases such as video, AI or IoT running
locally on the uCPE. Carrying out data
processing at the Edge will help them
improve application performance and
assure data privacy.
The uCPE uses hardware provided by
Dell Technologies OEM | Embedded &
Edge Solutions running middleware
built by Ekinops, a supplier of advanced
network access solutions. It will allow
enterprises to consolidate their site
connectivity and functionality with virtual “Our global enterprise customers
require increased flexibility in
terms of connectivity solutions and
infrastructure optimisation. This uCPE
solution developed with Ekinops and
Dell Technologies will give enterprises
further choice in terms of deployment
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and reinforces our ecosystem-based
approach,” said Anne-Marie Thiollet,
Vice President, Connectivity Business
Unit, Orange Business Services. “We
believe that flexible solutions such as
these are essential for customers looking
to run an increasing number of services
at the Edge.”
Didier Brédy, Ekinops CEO, said: “The
combination of our middleware and VNFs
with the powerful uCPEs and global
presence of Dell will ensure the best
possible quality, performance and support
for Orange enterprise customers. We
are committed to help service providers
adopt software-defined networking, and
our growing line of software products has
proven to be at the cutting edge, as this
announcement attests.”
Sanjay Tyagi, Vice President and General
Manager, EMEA OEM | Embedded and
Edge Solutions, Dell Technologies, said:
“Our uCPE range offers an ideal solution
for service providers who are looking to
modernise operations for connecting
branch locations to the WAN, reduce
complexity and foster business impact.” ◊
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