Megaport Virtual Edge, Megaport’s On-demand NFV Service, Brings Branch-to-Cloud Connectivity to VMware SD-WAN Customers
December 14 2021 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) enables VMware
customers to modernise their SD-WAN connectivity, optimise network
performance, and reduce provisioning time from months to
minutes.
Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1) ("Megaport"), a global leading
Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, today announces the
availability of VMware SD-WAN on Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE).
VMware SD-WAN’s will be interoperable with MVE to enable
branch-to-cloud connectivity on Megaport’s global Software Defined
Network (SDN).
Optimising VMware SD-WAN Connectivity
Many businesses have embraced SD-WAN and internet connections as
a means of simplifying their IT connectivity. With VMware SD-WAN
available on MVE, customers can host localised virtual SD-WAN
controllers on Megaport’s global platform and reduce the distance
data traverses over internet paths from branch locations to
critical services in public or private clouds and even other branch
locations.
Once connected, VMware customers can access Megaport’s leading
ecosystem of more than 700 enabled data centres worldwide and over
360 service providers, including 220+ cloud on-ramps from the
world's leading clouds such as Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud,
Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Salesforce.
VMware SD-WAN on MVE Highlights:
- Reduced cloud egress costs to cloud on-ramps when compared to
internet rates.
- Globally distributed for localised connections.
- Point-and-click network provisioning to support interconnection
between branch locations, data centres, cloud providers, and IT
services.
- Real-time provisioning of virtual network infrastructure and
interconnections.
- No hardware to ship, install, or manage.
- Unified end-to-end network provisioning and management to
transform legacy networks.
- More secure, multi-cloud connections to more than 360 service
providers, 700+ enabled data centres, and 220+ cloud interconnect
points.
Craig Connors, vice president and general manager at VMware,
said, “VMware SD-WAN in combination with Megaport Virtual Edge
offers customers more choice for simplifying WAN operations,
reliable network performance for business-critical applications,
and easier adoption of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud, while reducing
latency to cloud workloads.”
Transforming Networking at the Edge
MVE is a globally distributed compute and network service in
one. The compute aspect of the service enables customers to host
NFV instances in locations where they need them, on demand, and
manage them in a point-and-click manner. On the network side, MVE’s
built-in transit gateway provides a highly scalable access point
for connecting networks, via the public internet, to Megaport’s
private SDN. Virtualised devices hosted on MVE can utilise the
transit gateway to create connections between the Megaport SDN and
their own networks, including branch locations, data centres, and
private clouds.
MVE is available in 24 metros across North America,
Asia-Pacific, and Europe. This allows customers more flexibility to
deploy virtual devices near concentrations of users to localise
traffic and optimise data termination for performance.
“As enterprises and service providers rapidly adopt SD-WAN
technology to improve edge network connectivity, the ability for
Megaport customers to easily, and in minutes, ‘spin up’ VMware
SD-WAN edge routers around the world on our platform is a big
enabler for global organisations,” said Vincent English, CEO of
Megaport. “Having VMware SD-WAN in Megaport’s global Software
Defined Network allows our customers to optimise their SD-WAN
connectivity to improve overall network and application performance
at a fraction of the cost of legacy methods.”
For more information about Megaport Virtual Edge, please visit
https://www.megaport.com/mve.
For more information about VMware SD-WAN, learn more at
https://sdwan.vmware.com/.
VMware and VMware SD-WAN are registered trademarks or trademarks
of VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
jurisdictions.
About Megaport
Megaport is a leading provider of Network as a Service (NaaS)
solutions. The company’s global Software Defined Network (SDN)
helps businesses rapidly connect their network to services via an
easy-to-use portal or our open API. Megaport offers agile
networking capabilities that reduce operating costs and increase
speed to market compared to traditional networking solutions.
Megaport partners with the world’s top cloud service providers,
including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as the
largest data centre operators, systems integrators and managed
service providers in the world. Megaport is an ISO/IEC
27001-certified company.
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