Comcast Business Launches New Platform That Helps Enterprises Streamline Operations and Save Money
September 13 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Comcast Business ActiveCore℠ SDN Becomes
First Cable-Delivered, Gig-Ready Platform That Allows Businesses To
Manage Networks, Systems and Costs Across Multiple
Locations
SD-WAN Becomes First Network Function
Powered by the ActiveCore Platform
Comcast today announced a significant advancement for enterprise
businesses that want to manage their networks, systems and costs
across multiple locations, branch offices or data centers. The new
platform is called the Comcast Business ActiveCore℠ SDN platform
and is the first cable-delivered, gig-ready SDN platform in the
country. Additionally, Comcast announced Software Defined Wide Area
Networking (SD-WAN) as the first business product powered by the
ActiveCore platform.
Comcast Business has already signed several SD-WAN customers
including Jim Ellis Automotive Group in Atlanta, GA., which
operates 15 locations across the state with more than 1,000
employees.
“ActiveCore and SD-WAN represent a ‘generational moment’ for our
industry and are designed for businesses that embrace the
consumerization of IT, SaaS and cloud services to run their
enterprise operations,” said Kevin O’Toole, senior vice president
of Product Management for Comcast Business. “We now offer
enterprises a robust, future-proof alternative to legacy MPLS
solutions; allowing them to easily add capacity to branch offices
at scale and unlock the potential of virtualized networks for
today’s connected economy.”
ActiveCore delivers new services and network changes via
software rather than through individually-managed and customized
hardware. The platform features an embedded orchestration
capability, allowing it to seamlessly deliver and manage multiple
virtualized network functions (VNF). When combined with an open,
extensible IT infrastructure, ActiveCore delivers better
application performance, shorter deployment cycles, and greater
business agility at lower costs. What’s more, the platform provides
actionable performance data in a single view for smarter, faster
decision making, helping customers quickly identify, troubleshoot
and resolve issues across their entire enterprise. ActiveCore can
be paired with Comcast’s high-performance, DOCSIS 3.1-based gigabit
broadband service. Comcast’s Business Internet 1 Gig service is
already available in much of the Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic and
Central United States, and will be available to the entire national
Comcast service area by the end of 2017.
“In a traditional network, traffic follows a specific path that
has to go a specific route to a specific device, and it’s difficult
to optimize,” said Eddie Gonzalez, IT Systems Director, Jim Ellis
Automotive Group. “Instead of simply increasing our bandwidth, we
found the SD-WAN solution to be a more appealing option because it
allowed us to prioritize the traffic we wanted over a separate
network connection and choose the quickest path for that traffic.
This enabled us to alleviate a significant amount of internal
inter-dealership traffic that would usually have to travel through
one circuit and could cause congestion on the network.”
Comcast Business SD-WAN combines secure IP-VPN,
application-aware routing, and a stateful network firewall. This is
delivered over the public internet via a carrier-class IP-backbone,
leveraging Comcast’s broadband solutions. With Comcast Business
SD-WAN on the ActiveCore platform, customers can augment or replace
their existing network with an alternative providing bandwidth,
reliability and flexibility. SD-WAN offers enterprises a powerful
and scalable, yet cost-effective, alternative to multiprotocol
label switching (MPLS) running over T1 lines. With
firewall-secured, branch-level internet connectivity to a public
cloud, Comcast Business SD-WAN accelerates performance and can
reduce the cost of backhauling data traffic through corporate data
centers. Comcast Business plans to add additional ActiveCore VNFs
in the near future which complement SD-WAN.
“SD-WAN continues to be attractive to a growing number of
enterprises because its software-driven approach gives greater
control and flexibility to users without the need for more hardware
and costly equipment maintenance and labor,” said Rajesh Ghai,
Research Director, Carrier Network Infrastructure, IDC. “SD-WAN
also reduces the reliance on legacy technologies which will help
multi-site enterprises to be more agile in the future as they can
support multiple WAN topologies and dynamically deploy a set of
features across all of their sites in a faster, more cost-effective
manner.”
About Comcast Business
Comcast Business offers Ethernet, Internet, Wi-Fi, Voice, TV and
Managed Enterprise Solutions to help organizations of all sizes
transform their business. Powered by an advanced network, and
backed by 24/7 customer support, Comcast Business is one of the
largest contributors to the growth of Comcast Cable. Comcast
Business is the nation’s largest cable provider to small and
mid-size businesses and has emerged as a force in the Enterprise
market; recognized over the last two years by leading industry
associations as one of the fastest growing providers of Ethernet
services. For more information, call 866-429-3085. Follow on
Twitter @ComcastBusiness and on other social media networks
at http://business.comcast.com/social.
About Comcast
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is a global media and
technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and
NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation’s largest video,
high-speed internet, and phone providers to residential customers
under the XFINITY brand, and also provides these services to
businesses. It also provides wireless and security and automation
services to residential customers under the XFINITY brand.
NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment and sports cable
networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television
production operations, television station groups, Universal
Pictures and Universal Parks and Resorts.
Visit www.comcastcorporation.com for more
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