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HPE, Intel & F5 vCPE DemoFriday Q&A: Layer 4-7 Virtualization & Network Agility

ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) is celebrating a milestone after it recently demonstrated the first open and multi-vendor vCPE (virtual Customer Premise Equipment). The technology targets adoption in the telecommunications industry as an open software-defined access framework.

According to ADTRAN, its vCPE is a significant leap forward for telecom carriers and it hopes the product will generate significant buyer interest.

Renaissance Technologies is currently the hedge fund with the largest position in ADTRAN at 1.16 million shares.

Carrier class test

ADTRAN said that the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) provided a carrier class test bed for its vCPE. The testing saw participation of 12 vendors, who achieved significant success in infrastructure interoperability using the technology. According to ADTRAN, vendors were able to create advanced combinations of vCPE that enabled them to achieve deep packet inspection filters, virtualized firewalls and a host of other network add-ons.

The test was mainly focused on bringing out the interoperability of vCPE functions. As such, some of the configurations completed by the vCPE included point-to-point connectivity that involved two sites running the same vCPE functions for IPv4 connections.

The other successfully completed test was static bandwidth provisioning. The goal of this test was to show how virtual infrastructure is supposed to handle shared resources. Another test focused on managing of bandwidth on various demand plans.

Global interconnectivity

ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) is hoping to provide the standard open network tools that will enable carriers to successfully navigate today’s challenges to achieve true global interconnectivity. With the industry’s first vCPE, ADTRAN’s confidence about providing network solutions for the future has been bolstered.

Liquidity concerns

ADTRAN doesn’t appear to be worried about its liquidity position as a reason it might have a challenge attaining its goals with vCPE. The company’s short-term liquidity improved to $120.9 million at the end of 1Q2016 compared to $118.9 million a year earlier.

Although ADTRAN’s sales pulled back 0.4% to $142.2 million in the latest quarter, continued cost curtailment saw net income increase to $5 million in the latest quarter compared to $3.3 million a year ago.

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Accedian Networks, the Performance Assurance Solution Specialist, today introduced the industry’s first network function virtualization (NFV)-based solution for assured enterprise-to-data center connectivity. The SkyLIGHT™ VCX controls virtual network functions (VNFs) on “bite-sized” programmable hardware modules, now tailored to assure the performance of premium public and private data center connections. The solution is a unique virtual customer equipment (vCPE) approach that realizes the cost and agility benefits of NFV without sacrificing performance or precision, or requiring changes to existing operations infrastructure or procedures.

Multi-cloud enterprise connections are the new lifeline for over 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies that have shifted in-house IT infrastructure to public and private data centers (Gartner, Nov-2014). While performance is paramount, service providers face constant price and margin pressure from fast “dumb pipes” and over-the-top wide area networks (OTT-WAN) using the Internet.

“The network scalability and flexibility offered by NFV and the cloud comes at a price,” said Jennifer Clark, Vice President, 451 Research (Yankee Group). “Service providers cannot afford to address this change with traditional performance monitoring and testing.  They will have to turn to virtualized solutions to address emerging network requirements from both a cost and performance perspective.”

Providers can now use Accedian’s vCPE solution to be more competitive by offering compromise-free, cost-efficient, cloud connectivity backed by premium service level agreements (SLAs). The solution offers the same performance as legacy, standalone hardware appliances but within hardware modules that are up to 70% less expensive, draw 90% less power, and require no rack-space at the customer premise.

“Ultra-fast traffic processing and monitoring can never be completely virtualized,” said Eduardo Gandarilla, Executive VP Sales and Marketing, Columbus Networks. “However, Accedian is slashing on-premise hardware size and cost to the absolute minimum required to assure connectivity performance, which is unique in the market. By combining the best of virtualization with the right degree of local processing, Accedian’s solution redefines how data center connectivity services will be delivered. It combines the cost savings of NFV without the performance hit software-only solutions often demonstrate.”

Accedian’s new catalog of vCPE-tailored VNFs provide programmable service activation testing, bandwidth metering, multi-connection performance monitoring, real-time service level agreement (SLA) reporting, bandwidth regulation and policy enforcement, and service quality analytics for hybrid cloud connections -- all within programmable smart SFPs and GbE modules that can be easily installed in minutes directly by the end-customer. The solution is available now, in all global markets.