Orange Business Services and Cisco Co-innovate and Power Next Generation SD-LANs
June 20 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- Builds on proven SD-WAN co-innovation program
- Single intuitive SD-LAN design brings end-to-end agility, cost
savings and scalability to enterprises
Orange Business Services and Cisco are co-innovating to help
customers transform their enterprise local area network (LAN) into
more flexible, powerful software defined LANs (SD-LAN).
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Building on its existing relationship and SD-WAN customer
successes, Orange and Cisco will work with customers to develop
SD-LAN solutions in its Open Labs program, tailored to address
individual customers’ business challenges and use cases with
network automation, analytics and security. The Orange Open Labs
provide a global mix of physical and virtual resources for
innovation and development. This helps companies explore their
future connectivity and performance possibilities in a safe and
secure environment. The benefit of hands-on experience is clear,
with 80 percent of enterprises utilizing the Open Lab for an SD-WAN
proof of concept (PoC) moving on to roll-out SD-WAN pilots with
Orange Business Services.
“Through our innovative partnership with Cisco and a commitment
to our Open Lab environment, we look forward to working together to
harness the agility and scalability of SD-LAN. Leveraging our
proven success with Flexible SD-WAN, we aim to create an end-to-end
networking journey in an optimized, adaptable enterprise network
environment,” said Pierre-Louis Biaggi, vice president,
Connectivity Solutions, Orange Business Services.
A self-organized, self-serving network The relentless
growth of devices, mobile apps and data is putting huge strain on
the traditional network, dramatically increasing complexity and
access requirements. The SD-LAN creates a centrally-managed wired
and wireless network architecture, which is easier to integrate,
operate and run, enabling businesses to work faster and smarter.
SD-LAN provides highly secure anytime, any device, anywhere access
and a high-quality user experience.
“With the exponential growth of users and devices in a highly
mobile world connecting to applications and data in multiple cloud
environments, enterprises are looking to deliver security and
optimal application experiences while reducing costs,” said Sachin
Gupta, senior vice president, product management, Enterprise
Networking, Cisco. “Building on our collaboration with Orange
around Intent-based Networking, we are now expanding from SD-WAN to
SD-LAN, delivering multi domain segmentation, automation and
analytics.”
For campus Wi-Fi networks, SD-LAN addresses problematic
deployment and visibility issues. It can effectively monitor
services, access and usage on networks, and anticipate any
essential upgrades to deal with the demands of wireless users.
SD-LAN provides highly secure identity-driven access, defining the
users, things and devices that can access the network. Access can
be granted or revoked at a granular level such as setting up guest
Wi-Fi groups, for example.
With IoT and the forecasted enormous number of connected
devices, identifying devices and usage will be paramount. SD-LAN
allows for segmentation based on the connected device, making it
easy to segment groups, departments and the like. This enhances
security, performance and device priority access management.
About Orange Business Services As the B-to-B
division of the Orange Group, Orange Business Services focuses
exclusively on serving enterprises around the world. Both a network
operator and a digital services integrator, Orange Business
Services leverages expertise in the areas of IoT, Cloud, Data and
AI, application development and cybersecurity. It supports and
protects companies at every stage of their data lifecycle, 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 25,000 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, rely on Orange Business
Services.
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Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications
operators with revenues of 41 billion euros in 2018 and 264 million
customers worldwide at 31 March 2019. Orange is listed on the
Euronext Paris (ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (ORAN).
Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in
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