Orange Business Services Selects Ekinops and Dell Technologies for uCPE Platforms to Accelerate Network Edge Transformation
February 18 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- Enterprises can remotely deploy multiple virtual network
functions
- Solution available to mid-market and large enterprises
worldwide
Orange Business Services has chosen Ekinops and Dell
Technologies as partners for a new universal customer premise
equipment (uCPE) solution. This platform plays a key role in
network transformation, including software defined networking
(SDx), providing customers with increased business agility,
flexibility and simplicity in service deployment. Orange will
deliver solutions based on this uCPE to mid-market and large
enterprise customers worldwide starting in 2020.
The solution is a result of co-innovation between Orange and its
strategic partners Ekinops and Dell Technologies, combining
Enterprise Branch Server IT and Virtualization Management. The uCPE
uses hardware provided by Dell Technologies OEM | Embedded &
Edge Solutions running middleware built by Ekinops, a supplier of
advanced network access solutions. It will allow enterprises to
consolidate their site connectivity and functionality with virtual
network functions (VNF) management.
Enterprises can install VNFs remotely to a uCPE deployed at any
site. A single box can run multiple network functions, such as
routers, SD-WAN, firewalls and WAN optimization, allowing customers
to provision new sites and services much more quickly. The Ekinops
VNF certification program currently has certified over 30
third-party VNFs.
Supporting push towards Edge computing The solution will
also help enterprises move toward Edge computing, with use cases
such as video, AI or IoT running locally on the uCPE. Carrying out
data processing at the Edge will help them improve application
performance and assure data privacy.
“Our global enterprise customers require increased flexibility
in terms of connectivity solutions and infrastructure optimization.
This uCPE solution developed with Ekinops and Dell Technologies
will give enterprises further choice in terms of deployment and
reinforces our ecosystem-based approach. We believe that flexible
solutions such as these are essential for customers looking to run
an increasing number of services at the Edge,” said Anne-Marie
Thiollet, Vice President, Connectivity Business Unit, Orange
Business Services.
“The combination of our middleware and VNFs with the powerful
uCPEs and global presence of Dell will ensure the best possible
quality, performance and support for Orange enterprise customers.
We are committed to help service providers adopt software-defined
networking, and our growing line of software products has proven to
be at the cutting edge, as this announcement attests,” said Didier
Brédy, Ekinops CEO.
“Our uCPE range offers an ideal solution for service providers
who are looking to modernize operations for connecting branch
locations to the WAN, reduce complexity and foster business
impact,” said Sanjay Tyagi, Vice President and General Manager,
EMEA OEM | Embedded & Edge Solutions, Dell Technologies.
About Orange Business Services Orange
Business Services is a network-native digital services company and
the global enterprise division of the Orange Group. It connects,
protects and innovates for enterprises around the world to support
sustainable business growth. Leveraging its connectivity and system
integration expertise throughout the digital value chain, Orange
Business Services is well placed to support global businesses in
areas such as software-defined networks, multi-cloud services, Data
and AI, smart mobility services, and cybersecurity. It securely
accompanies enterprises across every stage of the data lifecycle
end-to-end, from collection, transport, storage and processing to
analysis and sharing.
With companies thriving on innovation, Orange Business Services
places its customers at the heart of an open collaborative
ecosystem. This includes its 27,000 employees, the assets and
expertise of the Orange Group, its technology and business
partners, and a pool of finely selected start-ups. More than 3,000
multinational enterprises, as well as two million professionals,
companies and local communities in France, put their trust in
Orange Business Services.
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Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications
operators with revenues of 42.2 billion euros in 2019 and 266
million customers worldwide at 31 December 2019. Orange is listed
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strategic plan, guided by social and environmental accountability.
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placing data and AI at the heart of innovation, the entire Orange
Group will be an attractive and responsible employer.
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