by Marketing | Nov 13, 2020 | News
We are delighted to announce that once again Iricent has been recognised, this year as a Solution Plus Partner, in the Intel® Network Builders annual Winners’ Circle Awards. The award was achieved for bringing to market the Iricent NFV Cloud platform utilizing Intel® centric uCPE HW with NFVI SW, MANO and VNFs from leading vendor partners. Initial use case is uCPE and Edge Cloud deployment for Service Provider and Enterprise Customers – typically focussed on SD WAN, with other evolving use cases around Neutral Host for Mobile – specifically 5G deployment on vRAN and also IoT. “Iricent will be recognized as a member of the Solution Plus Partner in the Intel® Network Builders annual Winners’ Circle Awards, a program that celebrates outstanding innovation and business acumen that members of our ecosystem are bringing to the networking industry”. We are looking forward to even closer collaboration with Intel® and with our customers as we head into 2021. About Iricent Managed SD-WAN: The Iricent solution for Managed SD-WAN provides both vendor specific based options and a uCPE based option which leverages Iricent’s own Telco Cloud platform. With new cloud applications, mushrooming data and associated workloads, enterprises need a fast, flexible and high-geared network solution coupled with unparalleled application performance. To meet this demand, Iricent’s Managed SD-WAN service empowers our customers to facilitate their cloud migration and digital transformation journeys with choice, flexibility, security and resiliency. Iricent’s Managed SD-WAN offering enables both new and existing customers to leverage the benefits of SD-WAN in a cost effective and flexible manner. For more details, contact us at...
by Marketing | Nov 3, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
Remote working or working from home (WFH) has become the new normal and for many companies and their staff it is likely to remain a permanent feature of employment for the foreseeable future. As the network perimeter has moved from the branch office to the home office there is a pressing need for enterprises to apply the same policies (security, application prioritisation, etc.) regardless of the employee location or network device. Traditional VPN solutions, while providing security in the form of encryption, do not offer any solutions for application prioritisation or Quality of Service and in some cases can cause further problems by requiring traffic to be directed to a location that might not otherwise be suitable given the traffic type, SaaS applications for example. While SD-WAN has in recent years become the go to solution for enterprise WAN connectivity, deployment complexities and in particular the cost of SD-WAN hardware and licenses has meant that WFH with the benefits that SD-WAN brings has been reserved for larger enterprises and even then for key personnel. Not anymore. As a result of SD-WAN solution design and deployment advances in areas such as Cloud native economies of scale and Zero Touch Provisioning, SD-WAN can now be deployed in the home office for less than the cost* of a coffee a day subject as you would expect to some minimum term commitments. Remote Working (WFH) SD-WAN Use Case We have covered SD-WAN features and benefits in some detail in previous blogs. Key features for Remote Working / WFH scenarios are: Cloud Native Management Zero Touch Provisioning Intent Driven Business Policy Cloud Scale Visibility...
