by Damian Murray | May 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
With the move to working from home and the growing expectation that in many cases this is likely to remain a reality for many employees for the foreseeable future, more and more companies are looking at ways to improve connectivity issues and in turn ensure security for remote workers. In recent weeks many of our customers have started expanding existing SD-WAN deployments or adding SD-WAN as a secure and reliable way to improve the experience for both customers and employees when communicating from a home office environment. Traditionally remote office environments don’t have any quality of service and cannot offer priority to those applications that need it. Congestion mitigation is typically not available and in many cases the performance of consumer broadband can be very variable. SD-WAN can solve these issues, even when only a single link is available and can provide reliable cloud connections and the ability to apply policies and in turn assure application performance. Critical services such as the use of SaaS and IaaS based applications, video conferencing and the increased use of VoIP, in particular for customer facing staff, require more than standard VPN, they require SD-WAN. At Iricent, we are working with partners and with customers to help with this transition to remote working and are happy to offer free trials combined with professional services support to allow customers to learn for themselves the benefits of SD-WAN for remote working. If this sounds interesting, contact us at remote-working@iricent.com to schedule a call or a... read more
by Damian Murray | Oct 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to announce that Iricent has been selected as a partner by Intel in the Network Builders Winners Circle Program. 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 SP and Enterprise Customers – typically focussed on SD WAN, while the rapidly emerging use case is Neutral Host for Mobile – specifically 5G deployment on vRAN. “As a member of the Intel Network Builders ecosystem, Iricent has contributed to the acceleration of network transformation by working closely with Intel and our ecosystem and we would like to recognize your contributions by awarding Iricent in our Winners’ Circle Program as a Partner.” We are looking forward to even closer collaboration with Intel as we close out 2019 and head into 2020. ... read more
by Damian Murray | Feb 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are making our annual visit to Mobile World Congress this week (Feb 25th. to 28th.) in Barcelona. If you want to have a chat about SD-WAN, managed and un-managed uCPE, network automation, 5G in a virtualized World or anything else for that matter drop us a line and we’d be delighted to meet up –... read more
by Damian Murray | Oct 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to be returning to the annual SDN World Congress in The Hague next week and to be attending Intel’s Network Builders Summit on Monday October 8th. We’re very much looking forward to meeting up with old friends from the networking community and making new connections. Apart from catching up on latest developments and concepts in relation to SDN and NFV in general, their adoption in 5G, IoT rollouts, etc. we are particularly interested in the rapidly evolving network edge where advances in relation to SD-WAN and to uCPE deployments are accelerating all the time. The OpenDaylight SDN Controller network automation use case is another topic getting lots of attention from our customer base these days. If you would like to meet up in The Hague to find out more about what we do and how we can help or if you could just like to chat about the developments mentioned above, drop us a line at events@iricent.com or contact us at the show to meet up. ... read more
by Damian Murray | Apr 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Iricent recently launched a cloud based Managed SD-WAN Service targeted at Service Providers who wish to have access to a white label services platform. Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is a specific software-defined networking (SDN) technology use case applied to WAN connections which is rapidly gaining interest and seeing increased adoption in enterprise networks as it offers many advantages over traditional, fixed Wide Area Networks. SD-WAN architecture uses SDN principles to separate the data plane from the control plane in the WAN. It abstracts the underlying transport networks (MPLS, broadband internet, wireless, satellite) and shifts control intelligence from customer premises equipment (CPE) or edge devices to a centralized controller and in turn delivers many benefits including: All-in-one solution (WAN optimization, policy based control, application prioritisation, …) Lower cost for VPNs Access flexibility and redundancy Works over a variety of media (MPLS, Broadband Internet, LTE, satellite) Dynamic path selection and load sharing across WAN connections Simplifies the branch network making it easier to manage with increased network agility ZTP – Zero Touch Provisioning For service providers, SD WAN provides a unique opportunity to broaden the existing service offerings independently of existing reach and without the need for additional. Barriers to entry for new SD WAN services are significantly lower as SD WAN is an OTT offering and a service provider can offer customised SD WAN services that are tailored to specific use cases such as real time traffic or are further enhanced with cost effective WAN Optimisation for example. Iricent SD WAN At Iricent, our platforms are designed and delivered to allow providers to offer SD WAN services as cost effectively as possible... read more
by Damian Murray | Feb 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Less than one week to go now to MWC 2018 in Barcelona and along with catching up with customers, partners and even friends, we’re looking forward to catching up with all that’s new in the telecoms world. Expect to hear lots of 5G announcements and plently of IoT, artificial intelligence and machine learning details over the week from 26th February – 1St March, all of which we expect will drive an even more accelerated rate of innovation across all walks of industry and life in general over the coming years. Of course central to all of this, and to the congress itself, is the network and at Iricent that’s the part that we are mostly interested in. Over the course of next week, we will be particularly interested to learn about new network developments being introduced both in relation to platforms and services, almost all of which take advantage of the increasing adoption of both SDN and NFV technologies as these become increasingly central to network and services deployments. Both SDN and NFV are central to what we do and to the products and services we offer and provide to customers. Both are also complex technologies and require a new way of doing things but both provide real and quantifiable benefits to service provider and enterprise networks when taken full advantage of. If you would like to meet up in Barcelona to find out more about what we do and how we can help or if you could just like to chat about the developments mentioned above, drop us a line at events@iricent.com or contact us at the... read more
by Damian Murray | Feb 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Iricent SDN/NFV/SD-WAN Training Services Iricent is pleased to announce that following demand from customers and partners we now offer tailored training programmes addressing state of the art SDN, NFV and SD-WAN topics. The courses delivered to date have been very well received with plenty of positive feedback including the following from Alan Brennan, Head of Presales at Adaptive Mobile: “As a Security company migrating its products to full NFV compliancy, we reached out to Iricent to help guide us on this journey. Their command of this new orchestrated world and ability to synthesize the material for a technical audience was very impressive. I would have no hesitation in recommending Iricent to anyone seeking training or consultancy in the NFV/SDN domain.” Aimed at Network Engineering, Pre-Sales, Product Management as well as Sales personnel, course content, timing and durations are tailored to individual customer requirements. Topics covered include: Evolution of Networking Software Defined Networking (SDN) Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) architecture Cloud and Model Driven Orchestration NFV models, Descriptors and APIs SD-WAN Our customised training sessions also include practical demos of key SDN, NFV and SD-WAN functionality such as MANO (Management and Orchestration) using Iricent’s Managed NFV and Managed SD-WAN platforms as well as examples of SDN, NFV and SD-WAN implementations and case studies. To get more information on Iricent’s SDN/NFV/SD-WAN training services and learn how this can benefit your move to NFV and SDN, contact us at info@iricent.com. ... read more
by Damian Murray | Feb 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to announce that Iricent has joined the Lumina Networks channel partner program as an authorised Systems Integrator. The Lumina SDN Controller is powered by OpenDaylight, the most widely deployed SDN Controller platform. As well as being able to deploy Iricent APNOS (our SDN application which enables end user enterprises to take advantage of cloud based feature rich networking functionality including network access control, prioritisation and optimisation) on the Lumina SDN Controller, we can also support customers across Europe with SDN application development and implementation and network automation projects. Working with Lumina we can enable the deployment of a range of SDN application use cases including SD-LAN, SD-Access and NFV based uCPE Zero Touch roll-outs. To learn more about how Iricent can support Lumina SDN Controller based application deployments meet us at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from Feb 26th-Mar 1st. 2018 or contact us at info@iricent.com.... read more
by Damian Murray | Feb 23, 2017 | News
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, February 2017 – Ampliphae, a Belfast-based technology company specialising in cloud network analytics and control, and Iricent, a Dublin-based provider of SDN and NFV-based open networking solutions, applications and services, have announced a partnership aimed at helping Service Providers exploit advances in Software Defined Networking and network-based Artificial Intelligence. The partnership will enable Service Providers to offer new value-added capabilities to their Enterprise customers, enabling them to assert control of their application delivery infrastructure as they move business-critical applications to the cloud. Research firm IDC predicts that by 2018, 36% of the global enterprise application market will be cloud-based, presenting IT managers with unprecedented challenges in managing and controlling the new enterprise application infrastructure. The wide area network is becoming ever-more critical in delivering cloud applications to end users, with the same high levels of performance, availability and security as on-premise applications. From an Enterprise perspective, however, traditional networking services remain too complex, costly and inflexible to effectively support their transition to a cloud-first application delivery model. The Ampliphae/Iricent partnership addresses these challenges by combining the strengths of both companies, creating a compelling offering for Service Providers to give their Enterprise customers deeper insights and more control of cloud adoption across their businesses. Ampliphae uses advanced statistical analysis of network traffic flows, combined with machine learning techniques, to identify, classify and profile all of the cloud applications being used across the Enterprise. Iricent’s OpenDaylight-based SDN solution, APNOS, then uses this information, combined with other network traffic identification techniques, to automate the process of network resource allocation with application-level granularity, ensuring that business-critical cloud services are... read more
by Damian Murray | Feb 22, 2017 | News
We are very excited to join the Ensemble Harmony Ecosystem, the most comprehensive NFV portfolio in the market today. Ensemble Orchestrator is a key component of our MANO as a Service (MaaS) offering which enables customers to accelerate the adoption of NFV by removing operational and technology barriers that sometimes exist. To learn more about MaaS, visit us at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Hall 7 Stand 7F70 from Feb 27th-Mar 2nd 2017 or contact us at info@iricent.com To read the press release from ADVA, visit the link here.... read more
