Telco Systems Partners with NEC/Netcracker to Deliver NFV Service Chains across Data Centers
and at Customer Premises
Joint solution gives telcos and managed service providers unique customer self-service capabilities to manage deployed VNFs
Telco Systems, the leading provider of innovative SDN/NFV, CE 2.0, MPLS and IP solutions, and NEC/Netcracker,
providers of software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions
virtualization (NFV) solutions as well as business and operations
support systems (BSS/OSS), today announced that the two companies are
partnering to offer a joint solution that will support the rapid
deployment of NFV service chains across data centers and at customer
premises.
This new joint offering combines NEC/Netcrackers NaaS solution and Telco Systems NFVTime solution.
NEC/Netcracker NaaS is a full-stack solution comprising VNF onboarding,
service design, hybrid operations and a complete business environment,
including a digital marketplace. With the integration of Telco Systems
NFVTime along with VNFs as part of NEC/Netcrackers Ecosystem 2.0 program,
the combined solution using universal customer premises equipment
(uCPE) enables service providers to seamlessly deploy NFV service chains
that combine VNFs located in the NFV data center and at customer
premises.
NFVTime provides a service environment to rapidly launch and manage
NFV services at the network edge. NFVTime runs on commercial
off-the-shelf (COTS) white box hardware and includes a carrier-class
NFVi-OS and a broad portfolio of certified VNFs that are centrally
managed and orchestrated. NFVTime gives telcos and managed service
providers the service agility to smoothly deploy any VNF service chain,
including SD-WAN, vRouter, vFirewall, vProbe, vSecurity and much more,
remotely and at any time with zero-touch, plug-and-play provisioning.
As part of this joint solution, NFVTime is fully integrated with
NEC/Netcrackers NaaS, including Network and Service Orchestration, to
quickly bring NFV services to market and reduce the integration cost.
Together, NEC/Netcracker and Telco Systems are collaborating in the
NaaS market and developing solutions that enable service providers to
quickly launch new multivendor value-added services at the network edge,
capitalizing on the incredible opportunity to better serve the
enterprise market," said Aidan Dunleavy, Director of Partner Alliances
at Netcracker.
Enabling telcos with NFV-based customer self-service capabilities to
manage their deployed VNFs is an important new differentiator that we
offer the market, explained Raanan Tzemach, Vice President of Product
Management and Marketing at Telco Systems. We are excited to join
forces with NEC/Netcracker and are confident that these unique
capabilities for which we are already experiencing a strong demand will
lead to significant new business.
Source: Telco Systems and Netcracker Technology media announcement