Ericsson tapped by Verizon Enterprise Solutions to provide enabling support for NFV services
February 21 2017 - 7:00AM
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Digital transformation effort to provide next evolution of virtual
network services for Verizon customers worldwide
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Dynamic orchestration will help drive rapid delivery of digital
enterprise services
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Ericsson's agile solutions help reduce time-to-market and stimulate
innovation by enabling third-party partners to create, test and
on-board virtual network functions
Verizon Enterprise Solutions has selected Ericsson
(NASDAQ:ERIC) to provide enabling technologies for its virtualized
global Managed Network Services offerings, including Software
Defined Wide Area Networking (SD WAN) services.
The enabling technologies will allow Verizon
customers to take advantage of self-service ordering and
configuration, end-to-end automation and flexible payment models
resulting in more efficient service delivery. The self-service
offerings will give enterprises the flexibility to dynamically
combine virtualized features from a catalog of service options such
as security packages, WAN optimization and data center load
balancing for tighter service integration and better
performance.
Ericsson is providing to Verizon end-to-end
dynamic orchestration, closed-loop service assurance and virtual
network function (VNF) onboarding and testing. The solution is
based on Ericsson's orchestration offering in conjunction with
consulting and systems integration services. Ericsson Cloud
Manager, including model-driven configuration management, and
Ericsson Order Care provide the orchestration engine while the VNF
Factory enables efficient onboarding and validation of VNFs into
Verizon's ecosystem, while reducing its time to market for new
Verizon enterprise services.
Shawn Hakl, Vice President of Networking and
Security Solutions, Verizon, says: "This project grew out of
Verizon's long-standing relationship with Ericsson and builds on
the successful launch of our mobile offering that leverages
Ericsson's cloud orchestration solutions to provide VPN
capabilities for mobile devices. We are jointly developing on
Ericsson's innovative and comprehensive platform to enable a wide
range of secure virtual networking services to our enterprise
customers."
As part of Verizon's Managed SD WAN offerings,
Ericsson's solution enables Verizon to holistically govern, manage
and orchestrate hybrid client networks in real time, turning legacy
networks into elastic infrastructures that are lightweight,
programmable and more adaptable.
Verizon also will use additional Ericsson
solutions and services to stimulate a partner ecosystem for
enterprise-oriented Virtual Network Functions (VNF). Third parties
will provide VNFs that can be tested and on-boarded to Verizon's
VNF catalog for bundling by Verizon and selection by its enterprise
customers.
Jean-Philippe Poirault, Head of Business Unit IT
& Cloud Services at Ericsson, says: "Our latest work together
in NFV Orchestration will help Verizon to continue to lead the
industry with its hybrid managed networks at scale. Verizon offers
the flexibility, speed and scale required for proactively meeting
the needs of enterprise customers worldwide."
Ericsson's forward-looking initiative for dynamic
orchestration based on our work with Verizon will be on display at
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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