Nuage Networks Unveils SD-WAN 2.0
ESPOO, Finland, Sept. 21, 2018 -- Nokia is introducing the latest release of the Nuage Networks Virtualized Network Services (VNS) platform, offering the most powerful and secure end-to-end network governance across a multi-cloud environment, with complete visibility and control from a single management interface. Nuage Networks VNS is the industry's first and only SD-WAN 2.0 offering that is more than a network connectivity platform, providing a services architecture to deliver and orchestrate enterprise IT services across data centers, public cloud services, SaaS provider clouds and enterprise branch sites.
Enterprise IT departments have embraced the concept of SD-WAN, with leading telecommunications research firm IDC forecasting the worldwide market for SD-WAN infrastructure will record a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.4% from 833 million in 2017 to more than 4.5 billion in 2022. IDC expects the market will expand by about 58% in 2018 to be worth more than $1.3 billion.[1]
First-generation SD-WAN solutions have been limited in scope to automating and managing connectivity of branch offices, which are underserved by IP-VPN services. However, as more enterprises migrate their business applications to the cloud, they must provide seamless WAN connectivity. This includes connectivity not only between customer premises equipment at branch and regional sites, but also to their private data centers, SaaS providers and public clouds - all within a unified security and governance model. Moreover, there is demand from enterprise customers to leverage this services platform to deploy and manage Value Added Services including VoIP, Next-Generation Firewall, IoT, and WiFi Access.
Nuage Networks VNS is the only SD-WAN 2.0 offer in the industry that is purpose-built to solve these new enterprise IT challenges with a seamless, automated and unified next generation solution. Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 opens up a new dynamic in networking by providing services with flexible multi-cloud capabilities, the industry's most robust, built-in end-to-end security and a versatile architecture to deliver value-added services anywhere. These capabilities provide an immediate reduction in operational expenses and cost, superior agility, operational consistency across a multi-cloud environment and the ability to offer a diverse set of applications and services that can be consumed at the branch and/or the cloud. Longer term, the platform enables enterprises to future-proof their networks, addressing not only today's IT challenges, but also quickly adapting to their future needs.
Nuage Networks is continuing its strong push in the next generation SD-WAN market with recent contracts with service providers and enterprises from around the world including Banco Multiva, Cogeco Peer1, Credit Andorra, Etisalat, Equal, Globe Telecom, NTT Com India, Orange X, Telefonica, UPMC, and Vertel, in addition to over 50 service providers world-wide that have selected Nuage Networks VNS for their managed SD-WAN offering. With over 400 enterprise customers, Nuage Networks VNS is increasingly the choice of global carriers and enterprises looking to automate, secure and optimize their IT processes as well as their WAN, datacenter and public cloud networks.
About Nuage SD-WAN 2.0
Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 addresses the modern enterprise network's need to connect users to applications in a secure, programmable, automated and transport-agnostic manner. It's the only SD-WAN platform in the industry to offer true end-to-end policy and data plane controls extending from users in branches to workloads in public or private clouds, as well as SaaS.
Beyond point security functions, Nuage Networks SD-WAN also offers the industry's most comprehensive security across the entire network with the ability to not only offer end-to-end microsegmentation, but also detect threats and respond in real-time. This unique functionality protects against malicious unauthorized access, monitors all network communication across and within a branch to identify anomalies and violations of policies, generates automated actions by creating security rules in real-time based on real-time events and patterns.
To address the massive migration to virtualizing peripheral applications (e.g. VoIP gateways, IoT agents, and Wireless LAN controllers) through the deployment of third-party virtual network functions (VNFs), Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 provides enterprises flexible infrastructure to deploy value added services, whether locally through hosting 3rd party VNFs on an x86 uCPE or service-chained in the datacenter or cloud, ending the complexity of installing and remotely managing dedicated purpose-built customer premises equipment or single-function appliances.
About Nuage Networks from Nokia
Nu-âhj: From French, meaning "cloud." Nuage Networks from Nokia brings a combination of technologies and networking expertise to the enterprise and telecommunications industries. The Silicon Valley-based business has applied new thinking to the problem of delivering massively scalable and highly programmable SDN solutions within and across the datacenter and out to the wide area network with the security and availability required by business-critical environments. Nuage Networks, backed by the IP/Optical Networks business of Nokia, has the pedigree to serve the needs of the world's biggest clouds. The cloud has made promises - the mission of Nuage Networks is to help you realize them.
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